I found this morning glory last week at the Chattahoochee Nature Center. Here's some information about the flower.
I'm using executive privilege in inviting this into the Abstract Flower(p)art pool.
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_Hans van de Vorst, alight, roddh, julies517, and 64 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Katiano (69 months ago | reply)
Great!
Rosina (69 months ago | reply)
It looks beautiful and mysterious! Great composition! Love the blue, silky surface of the petals in front and the glowing center.
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Heaven`s Gate (John) (69 months ago | reply)
simple and beautiful
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ImageInnovation Photography (69 months ago | reply)
Great colors and textures. I love that rich blue and the hint of violet.
alight (69 months ago | reply)
Georgia O'Keefe... *
(such beauty, mim .. would love to crawl inside for a lovely nap.. :)
roddh (69 months ago | reply)
very beautiful color and central light. wonderful abstract.
Uncle Foto (69 months ago | reply)
ei 1
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_Hans van de Vorst (69 months ago | reply)
Talking about depth and capturing light :-) But there's more, this pic shows how a flower and abstract art perfectly merge together. I love it.
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I have faved and tagged your picture with BRAVO and this serves as an invitation to The Best: BRAVO.
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B. Wilson (69 months ago | reply)
Mim !!
Exellent, fantastic.... leaves me breathless....
This is so much to my taste - wish I had taken it !!
Maria*_* (69 months ago | reply)
Beautiful gradient! Nice pic!
regularjoe (69 months ago | reply)
beautiful texture and pattern...
ΞLLΞ∩ (69 months ago | reply)
Stunning!!
btezra [deleted] (69 months ago | reply)
~xlnt mix of color, texture and lines~
Photophool (rebuilding stream) (69 months ago | reply)
Perfect !!
Luv 2 Flickr (69 months ago | reply)
Interesting perspective...does look like a collar! Good one.
egefan - Suzan Almond (69 months ago | reply)
Glorious colour and I love the abstract composition !
Ronile35 (69 months ago | reply)
wunderschönes Blau!!! ein perfektes Foto!
jonmatthew photography (69 months ago | reply)
Just stunning.
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therese flanagan (69 months ago | reply)
I love it.
Philippe Sainte-Laudy (69 months ago | reply)
Fantastic image! Superb photography.
Gary* (69 months ago | reply)
Yes, like a fine cotton shirt, beautiful!
welshlady (69 months ago | reply)
Very eye-catching....super.
ms.lume (69 months ago | reply)
emanating light
blue furnace radiating
white hot brilliancy...
Impressive Abstraction, very painterly!
Artista (69 months ago | reply)
Very lovely abstract-like flower indeed. Beautiful blue hues and light.
Gorgeous !
c.zwerg (69 months ago | reply)
This is so magnificent and wonderful - Abstract beauty at it's best!
Anna Pagnacco (69 months ago | reply)
The beauty of simplicity....great light! Anna
IHP (69 months ago | reply)
Wonderful! It looks like fabric that has just come out of the dye - so smooth and silky.
capreolus (69 months ago | reply)
This is Rapsody in Blue from George Gershwin. Perfect!
B I R D (69 months ago | reply)
a light filled passageway
pulling the viewer
into the brink off morning
so brief so brief
but clutching purpose
as it fades
B I R D
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microbophile (69 months ago | reply)
You've got the eye for composition, Mim! And the colors and use of controlled DoF are wonderful! Simple but elegant!
....I've faved and tagged this one "QUALITY" and am hoping you will join and post it to:
www.flickr.com/groups/quality_photography/
where photographic quality such as this gets the recognition it deserves and inspires others...
QUALITY!
J Gilbert (69 months ago | reply)
That's quite beautiful. Well done. It looks like fabric drapery.
Isabelle Ann (69 months ago | reply)
Very lovely. I agree with J Gilbert--it looks like the kind of ethereal fabric a modern dancer would wear when performing.
Dean Forbes (69 months ago | reply)
wow! good eye for the details! It does look like a shirt collar.
Ed Karjala (69 months ago | reply)
Really nice one, Mim. The delicate folds and textures seen close up seem like the finest of silk fabrics.
jon fobes (69 months ago | reply)
expert photo! so subtle yet dramatic!!!!!!!!!
svenkataraman (69 months ago | reply)
lovely color.. love the soft glow. so smooth and silky! lovely image.
Jo Ann 315 (69 months ago | reply)
The beautiful blues fading into white is exquisite. The crispness and clarity is undeniably beautiful. Gorgeous shot Mim and a fav.
Azorina (69 months ago | reply)
Gorgeous glow...
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etylee (69 months ago | reply)
Simply beautiful. Great lighting. Minimalism at its best.
*Agnes (69 months ago | reply)
wow, absolutely wonderful
Rachael and Jess (69 months ago | reply)
beautiful light. Interestingly, I have impressions of a cave, with something wonderful just around the corner, from which the glow is illuminating the walls.
Dragan Fly (69 months ago | reply)
Fantastic rendering and light/color capture. I never could have guessed this to be a flower. Very beautiful and faved.
ps ... thanks for the suggestion to post in the "Nature Wins" pool.
Ken Blackwell (69 months ago | reply)
Wonderful light 'n color.
a kind of sparkle (69 months ago | reply)
Wonderful blue colour tones, great macro !
Brenda-Starr (69 months ago | reply)
Oh wow Mim, this is exceptional!
It has such a mystery about it and a very strong pull calling you into the light. ..... I love it!
I invite you to post this exceptional image to
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vlad2342 (69 months ago | reply)
stunning color!!
You are my winner!
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fouramjava (69 months ago | reply)
Wonderful perspective, Mim. Nice to see BLUE again. Mine are gone for the year. :-(
0 W8ing (69 months ago | reply)
MMmm Mmmm MMMM! MIM.
noahg. (69 months ago | reply)
Beautiful!
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Seen on your photo stream. (?)
JBAT (69 months ago | reply)
It is a flower? Wow I thought it was fabric.