Hanging Purple Tropical Flowers Up Close- Kauai- Hawaii
by Rick Bures
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Hanging Purple Tropical Flowers Up Close- Kauai- Hawaii
Artist
Rick Bures
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Photograph - Photograph
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Hanging Purple Tropical Flowers Up Close- Kauai- Hawaii. In this horizontal composition, hanging pink and purple blooms are rendered in pastel shades and in dreamy, softly glowing light and soft focus. The effect is achieved through a special soft focus lens that retains the details of the image but imparts glowing halos of light around those details, resulting in a dream-like quality to the image. These blooms contrast well in color with the muted blues and greens of the background, which is well out of focus, emphasizing the subject. Photographed on Kauai, Hawaii. See my other shots of these blossoms.
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.
Kauai has both one of the driest spots on the planet and one of the wettest spots on the planet. This dry-wet split personality owes its existence to the rain-shadow effect, where moisture-laden winds drop their water as the air cools while gaining altitude on its way up the windward side of the mountain, and once you get to the leeward side, little moisture is left.
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July 10th, 2017
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