April 20, 2020 — The Neighborhood
In Poppyland
There’s a flower in hand
That presents
A flute for you…
(More on Chewy soon…)
(Canon G5X II. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 3.2; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
A Flute for You (Not the Musical Kind)
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Words about pictures by Michael Scandling
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Looks just as it sounds 🙂
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Ooooh! Michael, that is sensationally gorgeous Love Love LOVE 🙂
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🙏🙏😊
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This photo is amazing! The light is so good! 😀
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Thank you very much. I love a backlit poppy.
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That shows true originality…at least…I have never seen anything like this before and …I love it.
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Thank you very much. A poppy just starting to unfurl.
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Okay, nature creates beauty but …boy do you capture it well!!!! 🙂
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Mother Nature and I both thank you.
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Not initially seeing the stem at the bottom, and looking at the base of the flower, I imagined I was seeing a vase. With the top added, it became a piece of art glass.
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Thank you I did minimize the stem. Could be a vase. I saw a champagne flute.
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Such a delicate beauty. You have captured a lovely early unfolding. I love the poppy, but it has never done well here. How beautiful they would be dancing in the Oklahoma wind.
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Thank you. They would be beautiful on the Oklahoma wind, for sure.
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Absolutely beautiful, the only sound in the stillness is a cork popping. Wouldn’t it be something, to have a sip of champagne out of a poppy-flute.
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It would be magical. The Muse and I briefly discussed finding a custom glass maker to make a pair of champagne flutes that look like this. It would be quite a challenge. And expensive. We shelved the idea.
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Love the idea, how wonderful the poppy-flutes would be!
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I love your poppy images…the flow of dark to light and detail is amazing. Flute brought to mind how I initially thought that “the nectar of the gods” would be apricot juice. but in a Buddhist writing it is noted to be water. After years of questioning, why not apricot juice? I finally realized (slow learner, I am) that without water there would be no apricot juice.
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You are doing just fine, grasshopper. We are all grasshoppers. Just yesterday I was commenting to my wife how I realized many years ago that everything we eat is simply reorganized dirt and water.
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dirt – star dust
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Well, astronomically speaking, yes!
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Absolutely gorgeous image, Michael. The light and colors are fabulous.
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Thanks very much, Jane.
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There are no words for the beauty in this, Michael. I agree with Mr Parker’s comment…
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Thank you very much.
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Your special gift for this is outstanding.
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Thanks very much. 🙏
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lovely
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Thank you very much. Very nice to hear from you.
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As always with your poppies, very lovely. Speaking of fluted things, this would make a nice pattern for a decorative fluted wine glass. And before clicking I see that Robert had the same thought.
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And we had the same idea as well. Decided it would be way too expensive to find a glass artist to make a pair. But it was a nice idea while it lasted.
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What a beautiful image. It brought to mind the refrain from William Butler Yeats’s “Those Dancing Days are Gone”:
“I carry the sun in a golden cup.
The moon in a silver bag.”
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Thank you very much. I was thinking of wine in a golden flute but I’ll take the sun.
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Superb image, really wonderful. 🙂
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Thank you very much. Amazing what you can find on a walk around the neighborhood.
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I like this view of the California poppy – the little “saucers” at the bottom of the flower always intrigued me, and you made that an integral part of the picture. Nice. 🙂
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Thank you very much. I always leave the saucer in my poppy pictures, if it was in the frame to begin with.
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Magic … 🙂
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Wow… What a stunning shot, the light is amazing!!
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Thank you very much. Amazing what one can find in one’s neighborhood.
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