Backlit Iris Flower Petal Close Up Purple and Yellow
by Rick Bures
Title
Backlit Iris Flower Petal Close Up Purple and Yellow
Artist
Rick Bures
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Backlit Iris Flower Petal Close Up Purple and Yellow. In this dramatically backlit abstract close-up vertical composition, the curves of the interior of an iris blossom are rendered in glowing purple and yellow light. The petals curve strongly in a manner which portrays at once masculine muscularity and feminine softness, the shapes and shadow play yielding an image which is more than just vaguely erotic, albeit in symbolic ways. Flowers are used by plants for sexual reproduction. They contain the plant’s reproductive organs. The female organs are in the pistil, which is often a single center stalk within the blossom. The pistil is made up of the stigma, style, and ovary. The male reproductive organs are in the stamen. Often there are many stamens, each a filament with a bulb (anther) on the end, surrounding the pistil. On the anthers you find the pollen granules, each granule containing the plant’s sperm. The purpose bright colors and scents and nectar of the flower is to attract animals like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, so that the pollen can be transferred from the stamen to the pistil, or to the pistils of other flowers (even on other plants of the same species). In this way the ovum are fertilized and the plant’s fruit develops, containing the seeds which are the product of the plant’s sexual reproduction and will develop into adult plants. Abstract photography seeks to portray a subject not literally, but more viscerally, communicating through form (shapes, patterns, lines, curves), color, texture, and the play of light and shadow. Often, just a small portion of the whole subject is shown, in order for part to speak for the whole, to communicate deeper meaning or aesthetic appeal through the details seen which would be missed if the whole were visible. See also my many other photos of flowers and plants, many of them macro (close-up) shots and many of them abstracts.
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December 29th, 2015
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