green wings

I used a very narrow depth of field in this photo, thus the sharp focus on only one part and everything else is blurred. I really just wanted to focus on how the 2 leaves diverged from each other. They (the leaves) look like the wings of a bird thus the title.

emerged

Here is another view of Anthurium. This is the "younger sister" flower of what I shared yesterday. Even if this is younger than the one in yesterday's post, it looks fully emerged because of the angle the photo was taken, thus the title.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this photo today because the small, white, flowers are more obvious in this angle than the ones in yesterday's post. The spathe is also a darker pink. I noticed that in this variety, the spathe starts as dark pink and turns lighter as the flowers mature.

emerging

I called this photo "emerging" because the spadix containing the flowers appear like it is emerging. Actually this is already fully emerged but I think the essence of emerging dominates, right?

This is a mini Anthurium. The actual flowers are really the small dot-like structures found on the spadix, the purple elongated structure. The leaf-like structure which people usually think of as the flower (because it is generally colorful) is simply a colored bract called the spathe. It is light pink in this plant but others come in brilliant red, burgandy, orange, green, yellow or white. Anthuriums thus usually differ in their spadix and spathe.

The spadix can take on many forms (tapered as in this photo, club-shaped, globe-shaped or even spiraled). It also comes in various colors (purple as in this photo, white, red, green, pink, or a combination).

By the way, both spadix and spathe may change color from bud to fully expanded. And hey, do you know that male and female flowers are usually arranged in separate bands on the spadix?

So today, I'm not only sharing a photo, I'm also giving a mini botany lecture. Ha ha.

friends or lovers

This photo evokes a feeling of tenderness in me. Can you feel it too? However, I'm not sure if it's the tenderness of friendship or of love. One can see that both are trying to reach out to each other. The lower one appears to be on tiptoe while the taller one is bending slightly such that an actual touch is just whisper away. One cannot be sure though if they are actually touching each other partly through their stems. I guess I'll leave it up to you to decide if they are friends or lovers.

curtsy

One of the tips in composition is the use of an S curve. I thought that this photo is a perfect example of this. Because of the S curve, the plant looks so graceful. It looks as if it is doing a curtsy in preparation for the dance.

on the verge of...

It's been raining lately so you will have to understand if I share another raindrop picture today. As I mentioned several times before, raindrops are one of my favorite subjects for photography, so every time I see them, I can't help but take another picture.

The big drop in this picture seems to be on the verge of something...a new world perhaps?...a mysterious universe?...a dream?...forever?.... Take your pick or make your own addition. Yes, please make your own addition and tell me about it.

This is the spider that I was talking about yesterday. When I visited this morning, it was still in almost the same spot as it was yesterday. Well, it's probably because it rained again so it just could not return to its other web. Or maybe the web really belongs to another kind of spider. However, I did not see any other spider nearby, that's why I assumed that it belonged to this spider.

Anyway, as you can see, it is a very attractive spider. I was almost glowing in the dark.