Dicentra flower

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:36 am

Hi all,

For a while now I'm reading this site with great interest, and enjoying the amazing work by many of you.
Personally I'm mainly photographing fossils for scientific research, but inspired through this forum occasionally also other stuff. For example this backyard flower; genus Dicentra, or "bleeding hearth".

Cheers,
Barry

Details: Canon EOS 450D, Macro-Nikkor 12cm, ap=2, stack of 10 images, lit with cool light panel. Critique always welcome.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:40 am

A simple but elegant composition. Well done.

The names are interesting. As Wikipedia says, "The common name, bleeding heart, ... comes from the appearance of the pink flower, which resembles the shape of a heart with a drop of blood descending". But the genus name Dicentra comes from "Gr dis, twice, and kentron, spur, in reference to the spur of outer petals" (pg. 145, "Flora of the Pacific Northwest").

--Rik

AndrewC · Post by **AndrewC** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:42 am

Nice photo

Which "cool light panel" ?

Andrew

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:31 am

Thanks!

AndrewC wrote: Which "cool light panel" ?

It is a fluorescent light panel from Novoflex, from their "magic studio art" line, on a flexible arm giving freedom of positioning.

Cheers,
Barry

Jbailey · Post by **Jbailey** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:21 pm

Welcome to the forum, Barry.

That's a clean and well-executed photo.

Jim