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Purple Flag

Jason Benz — Tue, 16 May 2017 13:55:29 +0000

This is Patersonia Sericea, commonly known as the Purple Flag, Native Iris or Native Flag. It is endemic to Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. This flower was photographed in a garden in Western Australia.

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Flaming Torch

Jason Benz — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:01:04 +0000

This flower is from an epiphytic bromeliad. We have a small colony of them growing on the Frangipani trees in our garden in Queensland, Australia.

This image is for Molly Path who is fond of my floral photography.

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Rose Tunnel

Jason Benz — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 09:49:59 +0000

This rose tunnel is on the Voyager Estate in Margaret River, Western Australia. There is a rose garden and red and white rose bushes at the end of every row of vines. There are a number of theories to why wine growers plant roses. They vary from purely aesthetic to practical bio-engineering. I suspect any floral diversity would be beneficial to the ecological environment.

Purple Rain

Jason Benz — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:13:25 +0000

RIP Prince, Thank you for the music.

Flowering Frangipani

Jason Benz — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 08:49:54 +0000

This is one of two Frangipani trees in front of our house on the Gold Coast in Queensland. They have been covering the lawn with yellow and pink flowers since the beginning of the Australian summer.

This weekend we have been working on our van in preparation for a Christmas trip to Keppel Island. Last year we took a day trip to the island. This year we will be camping there for four days so we will have much more time to explore the Great Barrier Reef.

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Doubtful Dahlia

Jason Benz — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:59:46 +0000

I think this is a dahlia but I can not be sure. If you know better, please leave a comment. It was photographed last weekend at the Carnival of Flowers in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. I try to get a positive identification before I post flora and fauna, but an evening of searching yellow flowers on google yielded nothing certain.

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Mothers Day

Jason Benz — Sat, 09 May 2015 23:07:25 +0000

This yellow sun flower was photographed at the Bundaberg Botanic Garden in Queensland.

Today is Mothers Day in Australia. It originates from the american holiday pioneered by Anna Jarvis in 1908. Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday in 1914. By the 1920′s it had become so commercialized that Anna tried to rescind it. She organized boycotts, threatened lawsuits and was finally arrested for disturbing the peace during a protest.

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Yellow Rose

Jason Benz — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:40:44 +0000

This Yellow Rose was taken at the end of the Garden in Grantham, UK. I used sRGB colour space instead of my normal Adobe RGB. Colour space determines the actual colour a specific RGB value corresponds to. Adobe RGB has a wider range of colour but this does mean each colour is further apart. For 8bit files you can visibly see a change when you shift a value by just 1. This is not great if you want smooth gradients but it does give richer Cyans and Greens. The narrower sRGB colour range is the standard for web output as it approximates the colour range of most cheap computer displays, but for how long. The last display I bought boasted 100% Adobe RGB which means it will not be long before most can show these extra colours. For now I’m going to switch to sRGB to test the use of this colour space.

N.B. After testing Firefox reproduces colours far more faithfully than I.E.

Purple Aubretia

Jason Benz — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:35:51 +0000

This Purple Aubretia was shot at londonthorpe in the UK just over one month ago. I used Camera RAW to process the image.

First Bluebells

Jason Benz — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:51:17 +0000

The first Blue Bells have started. This shot was taken 3 days ago in Barnsdale Wood Rultand, England, UK.