Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts

Friday, December 5, 2008

FLOWERS CREATED WITH SCANNER

I would like to share again with you my experience with scanner. I learn how to did it seeing the gorgeous scanned flowers by the talented artist Katinka Matson . She creates gorgeous flowers images by utilizing flatbed scanner.

Gostaria de mostrar novamente para vocês minha experiência escaneando flores. Aprendi essa técnica vendo e tentando descobrir como essa talentosa artista Katinka Matson conseguiu criar suas belíssimas imagens de flores trabalhando com um scanner.


Bauhinea variegata (cow’s paw )


All these fresh flowers from my garden were scanned by myself



Red Ibiscus and Bauhinea variegata (cow’s paw)


Stapelia gigantea (Carrion Flower)

Stapelias are strange succulent plants native to the deserts of South Africa. The extremely large, starfish-shaped flowers of Stapelia gigantea are pale yellow with reddish tripes. The flowers give off a pestilent smell that attracts flies. As they buzz from flower to flower, flies collect pollen and transport it to the next plant, thereby ensuring the successful pollination of this species. The flower’s putrid smell and hairy, leathery texture mimic the rotting flesh of a dead animal.


Stapelia hirsuta, popularmente chamada de Flor-estrela ou estapélia, é originária da África do Sul. Apesar do aspecto, a flor-estrela não é uma cactácea. Seus ramos são projeções verdes e suculentas, como dedos, que apresentam quatro faces e uma linha serrilhada nos ângulos formados por estas faces. Os botões florais são de coloração verde-clara e apresentam a forma piramidal. Quando abertos revelam flores magníficas, grandes, vermelhas e em forma de estrela, com o centro e os bordos muito peludos. No entanto estas flores exalam odor desagrádavel que atrai as moscas, seus polinizadores e besouros.

Daylily

Little Daisy

Red Ibiscus


How to do: First you put the flower over the scanner's glass. The flower must be face down. Next you arrange the flower as you like. Then cover the flower gently with a black fabric, very dense, (all the scanner's superficies). Don't shut the scanner's cover, if you do this, you may crumple the flower. Then turn on the scanner. Next you can save the image in some file you choose. The interesting in this process is the unexpected: we don't know exactly how the flower will show up. It's an amazing surprise!


Como fazer: Primeiro você coloca uma flor sobre o vidro do scanner. A flor deve estar com a face virada para baixo. Arrume a flor como você desejar. Cubra a flor delicadamente com um tecido preto e grosso (toda a supercífie do scanner) Não feche a tampa do scanner, pois se você fizer isso, pode amassar a flor. Ligue o scanner. Em seguida salve a imagem escaneada. O interessante neste processo é o inesperado, nunca sabemos bem como a imagem vai ficar. É sempre uma incrível surpresa!

Monday, September 1, 2008

GLORIFY THE NATURE!



Welcome, Bem-vindos, to Ecological Day!


Ever since I have been living in Enseada Azul I have the nature all around me!




























Ecology (from Greek: οίκος, oikos, "household"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interaction between organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors such as insolation (sunlight), climate, and geology, and biotic factors, which are other organisms that share its habitat. The word "ecology" is often used more loosely in such terms as social ecology and deep ecology and in common parlance as a synonym for the nature environment or environmentalism. Likewise "ecologic" or "ecological" is often taken in the sense of environmentally friendly.The term ecology or oekologie was coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in 1866, when he defined it as "the comprehensive science of the relationship of the organism to the environment.(Wikipedia)


A Ecologia é o estudo das interações dos seres vivos entre si e com o meio ambiente. A palavra Ecologia tem origem no grego “oikos", que significa casa, e "logos", estudo, reflexão. Logo, por extensão seria o estudo da casa, ou de forma mais genérica, do lugar onde se vive. Foi o cientista alemão Ernst Haeckel, em 1869 quem primeiro usou este termo para designar a parte da Biologia que estuda as relações entre os seres vivos e o ambiente em que vivem, além da distribuição e abundância dos seres vivos no planeta. Para os ecólogos, o meio ambiente inclui não só os fatores abióticos, como o clima e a geologia, mas também os seres vivos que habitam uma determinada comunidade ou biótopo. O meio ambiente afecta os seres vivos não só pelo espaço necessário à sua sobrevivência e reprodução - levando, por vezes, ao territorialismo - mas também às suas funções vitais, incluindo o seu comportamento (estudado pela etologia, que também analisa a evolução dos comportamentos), através do metabolismo. Por essa razão, o meio ambiente -- a sua qualidade -- determina o número de indivíduos e de espécies que podem viver no mesmo habitat. Por outro lado, os seres vivos também alteram permanentemente o meio ambiente em que vivem. (Wikipedia)




HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SOFIA, THESE FLOWERS ARE FOR YOU!




Photos taken by my husband and by myself

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Monday, July 21, 2008

ORCHIDS IN MY GARDEN

Have I mentioned I love orchids? They were planted by my son. Do you also love them? Do you have orchids in your garden?





Photos taken by myself in my garden.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

REFLECTION ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AND RECIPROCITY

I believe that friendship is like flowers, both needs much caress and fondness to grow well. When its bloomed and open, it produces a lovely flower. "Friendship is mutual reciprocity of affection and purpose".




"Friendship is mutual reciprocity of affection and purpose". -- Aristotle.



"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom". -- Marcel Proust.



"Friendship of goodness depends on love, on likeness, on recognition, on reciprocity, on activity, on quality of characters, and on sharing of life", as understood by Aristotle.


“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” -- William Blake.


"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -- Aristotle.



"The only way to have a friend is to be one". -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.




"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." -- Henry David Thoreau.



Greenhouses photos were taken in Holambra II, by my husband and by myself.
You can click on the pictures for a larger version.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

FLOWERS: MY HOMAGE TO NATURE

This post with flowers photos is my homage to nature. Even I have been living in country for nine years now, I am still unable to identify by name many plants, trees, flowers, birds... but Walt Whitman with his wise phrase about nature teach me that there is no reason to feel so guilty about my ignorance.


"You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things."


Walt Whitman, american poet, journalist and essayist, best known for “Leaves of Grass” (1855), was born in 31 May 1819, at West Hills, Huntington Township, New York.


If you would like to know the origin of my blog's name, click Here.



From my garden


From a greenhouse in Holambra Fields


From my garden


From a greenhouse in Holambra's Fields


From my garden


From a greenhouse in Holambra's Fields


From a garden in Holambra's Fields


Photos taken by myself

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Sunday, July 29, 2007

SCANNING FLOWERS

Bauhinea variegata (cow’s paw )


Stapelia gigantea (Carrion Flower)


Daylily


Little Daisy


Red Ibiscus


Red Ibiscus and Bauhinea variegata (cow’s paw)


I made this same post at January 22, 2006 and I had many comments. So I want to share with you again this post.
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I learn how to scanning flowers seeing the beautiful works of Katinka Matson, an amazing artist of New York. On her site, she talks about her artistic's process: "I have experimented with a non-photographic technique for creating images by utilizing input through the flatbed CCD scanner. No camera or lenses are used. The process involves scanning flowers and other natural objects on an open-top scanner from underneath the objects with a slo-moving sensor. This technique allows for unusual opportunities to explore new ideas involving light, time, and rhythm”.

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How scanning flowers: First of all you put the flower over the scanner's glass. The flower must be face down. Next you arrange the flower as you like it. Then cover the flower gently with a black fabric, very dense, (all the scanner's superficies). Don't shut the scanner's cover, if you did that, you will crumple the flowers. Then turn on the scanner. Next you must save the photo in some file you choose. The interesting in this process is the unexpected. We don't know exactly how the flower's image will show up. It's an amazing surprise!

Como escanear flores: Em primeiro lugar coloque as flores ou folhas sobre o vidro do scanner, viradas para baixo. Arranje as flores como quiser. Agora cubra com cuidado as flores com um tecido escuro e grosso (eu usei veludo preto). Não feche a tampa do scanner para não amassar as flores. Ligue o scanner e escaneie as flores. Salve a foto numa pasta. O interessante deste processo é o inesperado. Você não sabe bem como será o resultado. Mas certamente você terá uma incrível surpresa!


Photos and scanning flowers by Sonia A. Mascaro
See those flowers "live" before I scanned them on Only Photos
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