Photo Art Friday

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Nothing has changed for me.  I have missed our weekly challenges and struggled with finding other ways to express some creativity.  But, as soon as you came back "Photo Art Friday", I over reacted as always.  I must have made twenty pictures of flowers and then the hard part became paring them down to a reasonable selection.   I'm not saying they are good, but what I am saying is, I had a ball ... so glad you are back, Bonnie !

 

 

 Cone Flower ...

 

 

Calla Lily

 

A Rose in a Vase ...

 

 

The flower of the Yucca Plant

 

The Tulip

 

The Gooseneck Loosestrife

 

 

 

The last is something I have done for a long time.  I always called it my flower art.  I take a flower picture and put it through one of the distort filters, then develop the result into a picture.  I will often see something familiar like a face or an animal, but this time I used the fruit of my Hibiscus plant and just turned it into an abstract.

 

I used pdpa textures on each of these, in some cases more than one and then finished it with different filters.  Three of them I used PicMonkey and one I used Be Funky.   This was great fun ... I'm looking forward to meeting up with old friends and drooling over their talent.    

 

Shadow Shot Sunday

 

Since I featured the Calla Lily in "Sunday's Best", I decided to stick with the theme and use a Calla Lily Shadow.  Have a wonderful day!

Sunday's Best

Calla Lily

The calla lilies(Zantedeschia aethiopica ... common names, Calla lily, Arum lily, Varkoor, an Afrikaans name meaning pig's ear);   grows from bulbs, or rather rhizomes, and will therefore, as most other bulbs, spread by producing even more bulbs. These bulbs can be dug up, and replanted in another location. The calla lily is a very hardy and strong genus that will grow in more or less any soil as long as it the climate is humid enough. In many of the countries from where the calla lily originates it is thought of as a weed and is ferociously cut down to make way for agriculture. The calla lily can also be propagated through its seeds but it takes a little more finesse than to just dig up those extra bulbs.