dead flowers for birthday

[Frank Fremerey]

dead flowers for birthday

[Gary]

Your usual fine photography ... but Frank, what kind of flower is that? I cannot recall seeing such a type of growth from the blossom.

[Frank Fremerey]

Thank you for the compliment. The identification shall be left to the botanists who are plenty in this forum. They also had some dead flowers in Rijksmuseum:

[Gary]

Just curious, Frank, assuming that English is not your Mother Tongue, but most people do not use the term "Dead" when describing the practice of removing the sexual organs of certain plants for decorations. Do you not like that practice, hence the use of 'Dead' over a less brutal term like 'cut' or 'arrangements' or 'bouquet' or simply not using a descriptor and simply state 'Flower?

FYI- I think 'dying' or 'soon to be dead' my be more accurate. 

Knocking on Death's Door, Giving Up the Ghost, Bite the Dust, Buying the Farm, Having One Foot in the Grave, Kick the Bucket, et cetera ...

G

[Frank Fremerey]

dead = cut, killed
alive = attached to the ground, breathing

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Your blue flower is Nigella damascena. Common name 'Love-in-a-mist'. Used as an ornamental plant for centuries.

I associate different kind of flowers when they are dead rather than being cut.

[Gary]

Your blue flower is Nigella damascena. Common name 'Love-in-a-mist'. Used as an ornamental plant for centuries.

I associate different kind of flowers when they are dead rather than being cut.

In this forum I shall respect the majority and use killed or dead in lieu of cut.

[Frank Fremerey]

Oow usefuhll

[Andrea B.]

The proper English idiom is "cut flowers". The flowers are *not* "dead" simply because their stems have been cut for placement in a vase. 

Their cellular activity ("breathing") continues for a few days after the stems are placed in water. Sometimes some flowers even make roots in the water and continue to grow.

[Frank Fremerey]

Hi Andrea. I surrender. These flowers were cut to die and
I watched them photographically in their demise and
suffocation. You might change the title of this thread
accordingly. Honorable mention goes to my depiction.

[Jakov Minić]

Those flowers were planted and grown so that they could be cut and used for pleasure.
Just like any other plants on this planet...
Sometimes you eat them, sometimes you drink them, sometimes you smell them, sometimes you smoke them, sometimes you use them as decorations, sometimes you make oil out of them, sometimes you make a fragrance out of them, sometimes you use them to make cosmetics, etc.
I would rather receive a (dead) bunch of flowers for my birthday that I can place in a vase and enjoy them while they last than pots and pots of living (breathing) flowers who are connected to the soil whose death is a certainty anyhow
In fact I am curious to know how much shorter is their life when brutally murdered?

I like the blue flower - love in a mist. Very nicely captured.

[Frank Fremerey]

Jakov: Currently I am really fascinated by the fact that we are created to kill, eat and defecate others. This transformation is "getting to know each other" in a fundamental way. Now I learn that in an ecological sense this process is necessary to create new life. Worse: If the process does not happen because certain lifeforms are extinct the life of all other life forms is endangered.

Do read: "Feral" by George Monbiot!

Thank you for the compliment. I am just experiencing the 1.8/50G fully open as a means to create dreamy shots

PS: The first seit is done with the X100T at 5.6 or 8

[Andrea B.]

Ah yes, life in all its gory glory ! Some life must eat other lives. Seems to be the way things work, so I had to give up thinking too deeply about it. "-) "-) "-)

[Frank Fremerey]

a third set with a third lens (60G_Micro) still another character

[armando_m]

Last image !!! Wow Frank, great results !