Backlit Iris Flower Petal Close Up Purple and Yellow Wood Print

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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 at...

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