Monday, 5 February 2007

Flowering gum


iso 800, f 5.6, ss 1/500 sec



There are some beautiful eucalyptus trees in flower here at the moment. You will be seeing a lot of them during this week. This one is just around the corner from my house. I have been watching it of the past month hoping the flowers would last long enough for this weeks challenge.


I have been tagged by Jan and Sara. 6 weird things about me - hummm....I might have to think about this one.


Thank you for all the comments on yesterday's pics. I was thinking of all you guys in the snow when I posted the beach pic. It was such a lovely day here. The water was even fairly warm. The cricket one was hard to get a good crop. I think the batsman only was probably best, I would have liked to make it wider, but I couldn't add much on the left coz of the guy in the red shirt. Maybe I should have got off my bum and moved ten steps to the right to separate them more.

12 comments:

Lori said...

This is so unusual! Gorgeous color!

Dar Kaso said...

How cool is that flower, beautiful color and very unusual. Great capture.

Michelle said...

love this! great composition-love how you framed it so that the "tentacles" reach up into the black and really hi-light them. GREAT!

Hope said...

Wow those are beautiful. I have never seen flowers that look like that before. Nice composition.

Amy Covey said...

Wow - such unusual flowers and gorgeous color!! Great photo!

Sue said...

Beautiful color. What a neat flower :) Looks almost like its floating water.

amazing grace said...

beautiful! it's nice to see something with color---everything is 'dormant' here....:)

Krissynae said...

very unusual plant. This is a gorgeous plant. The color looks just like bubble gum pink. Great shot.

Rebecca said...

Beautiful!

~*Steffie*~ said...

What an amazing flower!! Thanks so much for sharing it. Great capture.

Adrienne said...

Very neat! I love it, and would love to just look at it forever. What a pretty pink too! :) TFS...can't wait to see more of this!

Katie said...

Wow, it looks like a sea anenome (I prolly spelled that wrong). Great color.