Typophile - Christmas Roses - Comments

Chris, I’m tempted to riff

Ricardo Cordoba — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:04:26 -0800

Chris, I’m tempted to riff on that, but... I’ve thought better of it. :-)

Great juvination! ChrisL

dezcom — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:42:37 -0800

Great juvination!

ChrisL

You’re right, Haley. I

Sharon Van Lieu — Sat, 5 Jan 2008 22:49:23 -0800

You’re right, Haley. I looked it up and they are called veins and the pattern is called venation.

Thanks, Haley. Makes sense

Ricardo Cordoba — Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:37:43 -0800

Thanks, Haley. Makes sense to me, because the Spanish word for vein is “vena.”

In a leaf it’s called

HaleyFiege — Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:44:31 -0800

In a leaf it’s called venation. Not sure if there’s a specific term for petals.

Thank you, Ricardo. I’m

Sharon Van Lieu — Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:42:26 -0800

Thank you, Ricardo. I’m not up on rose terminology either but I know what you mean. :-)

Sharon

Beautiful photos and roses,

Ricardo Cordoba — Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:35:34 -0800

Beautiful photos and roses, Sharon. I love the one with all the “veins” (don’t know the proper term, sorry).

Pick a song and sing a

James Arboghast — Sat, 5 Jan 2008 18:47:23 -0800

Pick a song and sing a yellow nectarine
Take a bath I’ll drink the water that you leave
If you should die before me ask if you can bring a friend
Pick a flower hold your breath and fade away

Lyrics by Scott Weiland

j a m e s

Thanks to you both. They

Sharon Van Lieu — Sat, 5 Jan 2008 17:30:54 -0800

Thanks to you both. They were extra pretty.

Sharon

Lovely flowers, Sharon! Your

dezcom — Sat, 5 Jan 2008 06:42:01 -0800

Lovely flowers, Sharon! Your husband chose them well.

ChrisL

Mmm, lovely! Thanks for

James Arboghast — Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:38:38 -0800

Mmm, lovely! Thanks for sharing Sharon. Very beautiful.

Another photographer I know makes flower-themed art prints using a direct positive exposure technique as follows: grab a large sheet of Agfachrome (formerly Cibachrome) color positive photographic paper, and lay flowers and such-like on top. Flattened flowers work better, and you can of course enhance their contact with the paper by laying a sheet of clear glass on top to press them closer against the surface. Expose the composition with a white light source—-whatever temperature Agfachrome paper likes for white balance. Develop the “print” in the normal chemical process, and you end up with a one-off art print. The colors of the flowers and stems and leaves is transferred in the same way exposure to a transparency transfers colors via the direct positive process. Areas directly exposed to the white light come up white :^)

j a m e s

Christmas Roses

Sharon Van Lieu — Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:08:51 -0800

Some pictures of the Christmas Roses my husband gave me. They were so pretty, deep red inside and white on the outside. When they fell apart, I took pictures of the petals with shells. [img:flower1_4998.jpg] [img:rosecloseup_3819.jpg] [img:2petals_4241.jpg] [img:cropsmaller_5633.jpg] Sharon