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The flowering lilac step reaches towards the canera, tiny four pointed little pale pink trumpet shaped flowers bursting out from centre into an upside-down teardrop shape. Esch little flower of the bloom as a long neck and then the split into four equal parts, each with a tip curled slightly to the centre. It looks inviting, soft energy emits. The background appears as if at a distance, blurred green leaves filling the rest of the frame.

Francisca Sinn

4 days ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Rose #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #BloomScrolling #1000Breaths

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A bright pink rose fills most of the frame, cropped so the last bit on the right side of the flower is out of frame. The image is taken straight on facing the wide open bloom, so that the entire bloom appears as a circle, the layers of oval petals reaching out evenly from the centre; a full round plate of pink petals. The petals are a vibrant fuschia pink, some calling more attention in full sun, some emphasizing layers with shade, and the pistils and stamen are a warm, golden yellow with a tinge of green at the base. Below the bloom are three rose leaves, serrated edges pointy and sharp looking, contrasting the soft welcoming looking bloom. The background is filled in with muted blurred green of other leaves and, in the top left corner, a rosebud still closed and green.

Francisca Sinn

1 week ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Dahlia #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #BloomScrolling #1000Breaths

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The frame is almost completely filled with a dramatic and brightly coloured Dahlia bloom, with vibrant pinkish-red dominant, with uneven yellow markings on the many, many, ray florets, some more yellow at the base, some at the very tips of the almond shape, all looking like uneven brush strokes of acrylic paint. (Did you know that each “petal” here is a “ray floret” and actually its own flower? Pretty neat!) Many layers of the ray florets have opened, showing lush layers of colour. The ray florets still closed at the centre of the bloom are gathered tightly around the centre, and are pink almost purple, with a green eye in the centre where the disc florets (each a “perfect flower for having both female and make reproductive parts”) are just visible. To the bottom left side there is another bloom of the same plant seen from the side, yellow edges marking the ray florets, and at the very bottom right side a completely closed bud, mostly green and yellow in colour. The background is filled in with medium dark tones of green from the leaves. The image shouts abundance and life and joyful, continued growth.

Francisca Sinn

2 weeks ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Iris #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #BloomScrolling #1000Breaths

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The image is a closeup of a white iris with purple markings of the veins and pale purple along the undulating edges of each petal, on the outermost petals, the inner round ones are all white. The ones standing up are, I think, called “standards”, and the outer ones stretching out are called “falls”. The centre of the bloom sits in the top right corner, with all but one petal curved up to hide the centre. The one free fall reaches to the bottom left corner. Sitting along the centre of the wavy petal, is what appears a long fluffy white caterpillar, with yellow hairs on the half closer the the centre of the bloom. It is not, however, a caterpillar, but what is called the “beard”. Hence - Bearded Iris. The background is filled in with green leaves, the sunlit parts and shade making a series of lines, adding depth. There is one unopened bud of the same plant, purple tip visible, in the lower left quarter.

Francisca Sinn

2 weeks ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Allium #Nature #Photography #1000Breaths

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A bright purple bloom made up of tiny purple flowers is the focal point if the image, taking up 1/3 of the frame. Each tiny flower reaches out from the centre into a star shape, with a drop of green in the centre. Some flowers are closed buds, some open wide with tiny tiny little stamens reaching farthest from the stem. On the left sude of the flower is a fat yellow and black bee drinking from a flower, its fuzzy looking body resting on the flower. One of its wings is extended towards the left side of the frame, glistening in the sun, highlighting its delicate thinness and transparency, black veins visible. The background is various shades of out of focus greens leaves, caught in sunshine or shade. The green stem of the flower itself is a straight line up to the bloom, 2/3 of the way across from left to right.

Francisca Sinn

2 weeks ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Lilac #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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The frame is filled with lush mid-tone purple lilac blooms, each individual flower four almond shaped petals of pinkish-purple, trimmed with white around each petal. The foreground is one stem with 25 or 30 little blooms, coming from right to left so the left tip is slightly closer to the camera, and then two more stems going from right to left, slightly out of focus behind. The background below the blooms is filled with broad, flat, green leaves. Just to the left if centre in the front stem, there is one unopened flower, a bud in four purple segments resting between the open flowers around it.

Francisca Sinn

3 weeks ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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An enormous orange tulip with some yellow markings fills most of the frame, with the image taken top down such that the yellow eye of the flower with yellow-green stamen and four black tipped pistils is in the centre, and petals fan out from there. The petals are not a solid colour but varying shades of bright orange, some veins and edges in yellow. They are ruffled along the edges like a big, layered, ruffled skirt. The layer of petals closest to the camera, closest to the centre of the bloom, appear to be 9 or 10, and then the edges of the petals behind cascade down to the top right, the tops lit by sunlight. One little petal closest to the centre reaches up, curled. From beneath the bloom, two pale green leaves, also with a ruffled edge, stretch to the lower edge of the frame. The rest of the background is pale, dry brown dirt and some blurred green leaves.

Francisca Sinn

3 weeks ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A closeup of a stunning orange and yellow tulip, the many petals opened and reaching up. About 16 petals are visible. The petals are yellow at the base, then turn to orange about one third of the way up, with yellow markings in the veins and randomly along the out edge. The edges of the petals are ruffled, some more than others, giving a sense of movement to the image. The green stamen sits in the middle of a yellow eye of the flower, and four pistils (I think) with black tips sit around it. A little bit of out of focus brown and green fill in the background. It invites you to share its happy, bright and energized energy.

Francisca Sinn

3 weeks ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A closeup of a bright purple tulip, vibrant, rich colour with pink undertones and lighter pink markings, with a few appearing as short paintbrush strokes. The image is cropped tightly, so the bloom fills most of the frame, the leaves appearing far below and blurry lines of green and green-white. The bloom petals by contrast are rounded but each finishing in a point. The petals are slightly open, curved protecting the centre, which is dark pink and half visible over the tops of the petals. Three white lines pop out from the centre, inside at the base of the petals. The tops of the petals shimmer with a few light reflecting raindrops.

Francisca Sinn

3 weeks ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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Francisca Sinn

3 weeks ago

#Breathe

#Flower #FlowerFriday #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #ParrotTulip #Nature #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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The image is a closeup of a Black Parrot Tulip, where the bloom takes up most of the frame, a bit if the straight, green stem visible below the bloom, and green leaves and other purple flowers blurred in the background. The bloom is whimsically shaped, with each petal serrated along the edge, making it look feathered. This bloom has six dark purple petals, with the insides a deep and vibrant colour. The outsides of the petal is more muted, still purple, but with blue and grey tones. What adds interest to this particular bloom is the positioning of the petals. The one furthest back and the ones on each side of that image centre petal are open half way and pointed upward. The next two petals curl in towards the centre and each other, hiding the sixth petal. In doing so, the “feathered” edges if those two petals interlace, making it appear as if the y are two hands with interlaced fingers, or like the feathered wings of a bird. The feeling is calm and contemplative.

Francisca Sinn

1 month ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #Phlox #Perennial #FlowerPhotography #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #1000Breaths

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A big bunch of flowers, varying shades of lightly purple, happily together. Each bloom has five petals, each with a distinctive notch at the end, and which are lighter at the base and slightly darker towards the centre and tip, making them appear a little like they’re outlined in white, which draws a sharper contrast with the green background, making them pop a little more. Each bloom has a centre eye made of a circle of darker purple dots and a tiny yellow centre. The photo is a tight cropped close up. Although this Phlox is a very small flower, the image shows only 20 or so fully, with most of the rest of the frame filled with partials. A few narrow blades of green grass are interspersed.

Francisca Sinn

1 month ago

#Breathe

#FlowerFriday #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Tulips #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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The frame is almost entirely filled with two bright and cheery yellow tulip blooms with orange markings, blooms open wide, almost flat out. The image is taken from directly on top, so the outer edge of the six round petals of each bloom look like six half moon shapes connected back together. The petals are shiny, looking glossy, reflecting sunlight. The centre of each bloom is an eye of black, the pistil is yellow with a three point tip. The stamen are shorter, black, almost hidden against the backdrop of the eye. One leaf of the flower pokes put from under the blooms on the lower part of the frame. The rest of the background is mostly brown soil and a few small green leaves of other plants, all a bit out of focus. They say, breathe in our happiness!

Francisca Sinn

1 month ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A pink tulip with six pointy tip petals curled up towards the centre and the tip reaching outward. The petals are a darker, rich punk colour towards their centre, and a bit lighter towards the edges. Little yellow tips of the stamen above the foremost petal. The background is awash with slightly blurred green leaves, mostly long and narrow emphasizing lines.

Francisca Sinn

1 month ago

#Breathe

#SilentSunday #Flowers #Phlox #Perennial #FlowerPhotography #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #1000Breaths

Bright white flowers with a purple eye make a dramatic landscape. This image of creeping Phlox shows many of the little flowers in varying degrees of openness, from tight unfurled blooms to the five petals (with a distinctive notch, opened flat and the purple surrounding tiny yellow stamen. The background is more of the same plant, with its green leaves and closed flower buds.

Francisca Sinn

1 month ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A bright pink tulip fills most of the frame. The outer petals are opened wide, flat, with centre-most petals still closed and standing close together. The edges and tips of the petals are a lighter shade of pink framing each petal in shades of bubblegum, and drawing attention to the darker lines of the veins. A few petals on the right side (and just slightly towards the top) reveal a bright yellow core where it attaches to the stem, and peeking out from behind the still closed centre petals is just the tip of the yellow stamen. The background is leaves, mostly in straight lines, and a few stray ones seem to frame the bloom, and pointing almost as to indicate a turning of the bloom. A single rain drop rests on the lower, most open, petal.

Francisca Sinn

1 month ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #Photography #Nature #FloweringShrub #FloweringQuince #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #1000Breaths

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Bright, deeply saturated, red flowers of a Flowering Quince (Maule’s Quince) deciduous shrub play hide and seek in between bright, new green leaves on the shrub. The image centres on the end of a branch, with one plump flower bud seen in the upper left, and flowers with their open but still curved petals poking out behind leaves lower left, the warm brown branch exposed on the top right. The leaves are small elongated almond shape, smaller even than the flower petals of the open blooms. It is bright though not sunny. Many leaves and flowers are blurred through the background.

Francisca Sinn

1 month ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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An orange tulip with six rounded petals, each ending in a rounded pointy tip, reaches towards the sky. Three dark red stamen sit in the middle, drawing attention to the complementing dark orange-red lines at the base if the petals. The centre petal in the image, furthest from the camera, reaches up out of frame. The two on either side curve towards the centre one, framing the centre of the bloom in a roundish cup. The petals appear as varying shades of orange as light comes through the petals, darker where they overlap. Blurred green leaves show straight edges in the background.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#SilentSunday #Flowers #EuphorbiaMyrsinites #Spurge #Perennial #FlowerPhotography #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #1000Breaths

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This unusual plant has pale silvery green scale-like leaves overlapping all the way along the stems, leading to yellow euphorbia flowers at the ends. The flowers are tiny and inconspicuous, but surrounded by bright sulphur-yellow bracts clustered together. The image has one floral cluster front and centre, and two partially shown at the top left and top right. The stems, and the front flower, appear to come towards the viewer. A rain drop sits in a few of the bracts, reflecting light.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Tulip #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A photo of a pink tulip taken from directly above, so the bloom appears close ro the frame and the blurred green leaves further behind. The pink petals are starting to open , so the outermost later has pulled back from the centre. The ruffled edges are a lighter shade of pink than the strong, bright pink of the rest of the petal, and on the ruffled edges darker veining is visible.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #GrapeHyacinth #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A single stem of blue-purple grape hyacinth grows among a backdrop of green leaves, varying in shape and shade of green. In between the green, spots of brown ground fill in the frame. The bloom has tightly closed flowers with mixed green and purple at the top of a conical shape, and the bottom row of flowers has three of the flower buds opened, revealing a dainty ragged white edge on each puff of a purple bloom narrowed a little bit and then ruffled out edged with white, like puffy sleeves of a vintage gown.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Coreopsis #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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The frame is filled with a closeup of bright yellow coreopsis flower, where the (eight) long narrow ray florets extend past the edge of the photo. The disc florets at the centre are mostly yellow, with a bit of green tinge in the very centre, and are almost all closed which appear as little spheres. Five of the disc florets at the edge have opened and show a bit of brown. The background between the petals is blurred green.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Rose #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A bright bubblegum-pink rose with about 20 rounded petals fills 2/3 of the frame, with muted green out of focus leaves in the background. The bloom is half opened, so that the centre petals are still curled towards each other, protecting the centre, and the next few layers are opened up to the sky, the outer most petals are almost opened flat. It is cheery. It says, hope, new life blooms.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Ranunculus #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

The image is a closeup of the side of a ranunculus bloom. The colour is a light peach near the centre of the flower, up towards the top left of the frame, and moving to a darker orange-y peach on the larger, darker petals in the bottom right corner. The petals are delicate, with softly undulating edges, veined and thin like crepe paper. The bloom fills the frame except for a bit if background black in the top left corner.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #StJohnswort #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

Two St. Johnswort flowers sit amidst narrow green leaves longer than the flowers. One flower sits slightly more forward in the centre and the other partially tucked close behind it except for one petalswhich comes forward over the first flower. Each has five golden yellow flower petals. The elliptical petals have a ragged edge and spread out flat. The flowers are small, about one inch wide, with numerous stamens united at their bases. Filaments and anthers are yellow, and sepals are long and narrow and shorter than the petals.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Photography #NaturePhotography #1000Breaths

An upward look towards a cloudy grey sky. Branches full of new buds stretch out from right to left, clustered tightly on the right side of the frame, and sparsely spread out towards the left side of the frame.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Dahlia #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A bright pink single dahlia fills most of the frame, four and a half petals (ray florets) visible and half of the centre of the flower, with various dark shades of green leaves blurred in the background. The ray florets are bright and shiny, glistening wet with rain, so it looks like they were painted with thick stripe brush strokes of acrylic paint. Each almond shaped petal comes to a tiny point. The disc florets are brown, except for one outermost ring which are bright yellow. One drop of water lingers as it slowly slides down a ray floret on the right side. It looks rich and luscious.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#FlowerFriday #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Hibiscus #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A garden view - branches with green leaves and many blue hibiscus blooms (which are really a light purple to my eye), in varying degrees of opening, are the forefront. The most immediate blooms are one just unfurling and one open wide with a red centre and white stamen. A wooden slat fence in a complementing blue shade is visible behind the branches in the lower left half of the frame. The branches reach upwards and behind the fence the grey sky fills in the background behind two trees with brown trunks and green leaves blurred.

Francisca Sinn

2 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Rose #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A barely blush-pink-coloured rose bud fills 3/4 of the screen, petals closed tightly to the centre except the three most external petals, which have started to open. The focus is on the petal along the bottom, which stretches with ruffled edge towards the left side of the frame, on top of which rests a single rain drop. The petal closest to the front and centre reveals delicate transparency along the edges, and then a darkened shadow where the rest of the bud sits behind. The top petal opens up towards the top of the frame. The centre of the bud shows the tips of numerous petals of different lengths. The background is a mid-tone dove grey with a few muted green, blurred, leaves.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#SilentSunday #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Ranunculus #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A full, luscious, peach ranunculus bloom fills the frame and runs out of the edges. The centre has a tightly closed bunch of petals in yellow tones, with a spot of green in the centre. From there to the edges, the petals are a light to darker shade of peach. The image is shot in soft natural light, and the angle it’s taken from highlights the texture of the tissue paper thin, layers and layers of petals. It look like an entire galaxy in one bloom. Peaceful, magical, awe drawing.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerFriday #FlowerPhotography #Cosmos #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A bright, deeply saturated pink cosmos flower bloom fills most of the frame. It has eight ray florets (petals) and a bright yellow centre of disc florets, of which there is one outer ring of brown disc florets opened and topped with yellow. Cosmos flowers are associated with simplicity, joy, and beauty. It is also a symbol of order, harmony, and balance. The background is blurred green if leaves and the stem.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

The early stems arrive through snowy patches as if to say, see, the worst has passed, better days lie ahead. Breathe.

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Dahlia #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A raspberry-pink dahlia bloom is bursting free from the green binds of the bloom’s growing bud. The petals are scrunched together at the centre, but the edge ones are stretching far, their tips coloured a bit lighter and a bit ragged. The background is mostly blurred green leaves. The stem of the bloom is visible from the lower left corner. It appears to me that the tightly closed petals against the green looks a but like a dragon head, and makes the while bloom appear a little bit like a strong and courageous female warrior, riding or flying with determination towards the right (the future) with long petals trailing and flowing like fabric or wings. It says courage, determination, and strength.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Peony #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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An extremely bright pink peony bloom fills almost all of the frame, with some blurred green filling in the background. The petals are almost a neo-glow pink, but the edges are slightly lighter and softer in tone, and also slightly ruffled. The petals are not yet fully opened, and are angled towards the centre of the bloom, which is midway up and towards the left of the frame. In the centre of the bloom the larger, rounded petals have given way to smaller, slightly elongated petals clustered together .

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Phlox #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A garden scene of purple Phlox Paniculata stems amidst green leaves. The stems in the foreground have unopened buds showing some purple towards the tops, while the stems mid way and background have the little flowers in full bloom. The spikey leaves in the foreground contrast with the rounded, soft-looking purple flower heads. It’s peaceful, lighthearted.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#SilentSunday #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Verbena #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A verbena flower bloom, with about 25 little white flowers, each with what appears to be 3-5 little white petals with ruffled edges and a little green centre, set on a background of various muted greens. The leaves closest to the blooms are defined and the rest are blurred. The edged of the flower petals are turned upward slightly, giving the impression of lightness and lift, almost, if one were so inclined, to imagine the flowers are lifting in dance in contentment and sweetness. A calming, quietly joyful feeling.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #FlowerFriday #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A closeup of a deep orange-yellow flower bloom, 3/4 visible. The ray florets are uneven, with slightly ruffled edges, and the centre shows a puffed up ring of opened disk florets, with a darker brown centre. Rain drops rest on a few petals, the light is muted as in a rainy fay, and there are some blurred green leaves in the background.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Allium #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A tight macro closeup of a bright purple allium bloom fills most of the frame. It looks like a bunch of five pointed floral stars with a little green centre shooting straight towards the camera like a burst of fireworks coming at the viewer. Blurred greens and the bloom’s stem in the background.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Zinnia #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A dusty-rose coloured zinnia sits lit by sunshine in the midst of green stems and leaves. Multiple layers of ray florets are darker towards the base if the bloom, and lighter near the top. The disc florets in the centre show one ring of yellow, with opened tops, like five tiny pieces of banana peel pulled back.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Marigold #Calendula #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A bright golden sunshine yellow marigold fills the frame, taken slightly from the side, the bloom faces up towards the left. The ray florets are deep golden towards the tips, and more buttery yellow at the base. The disc florets of the centre are deep golden yellow, and rings of them, more open at the edge and more tightly scrunched in the centre. The background is blurred green of leaves. Barely visible is the blurred stem, so the bloom appears to float. A few drops of rain rest on the rays on the right hand side of the image.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#SilentSunday #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

An image of a glimmer of a sunset, with three bare (leaf-less) trees backlit by the sky. The trees appear as black lines, the snow covered ground in the foreground is a dark blue, and the sky goes from a thin orange line on the horizon to pale blue and then deepening shades of blue towards the top of the frame. One bright star is faintly visible.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Dahlia #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

A closeup of a peach globe dahlia, taken from an angle emphasizing the tiny petals of the bloom. Hiding in one of the curled petals is a tiny bug.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A deep yellow flower with petals of varying length faces head on, each petal with undulating edges, making them appear like crinkled paper, sits in the centre of brown and browning-green stems and leaves of Fall, but the centre of the flower is tightly knotted still, showing its resolve to keep blooming. It feels like hope.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Rose #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

Image is a close up of a pink rose, medium in tone, not too bright, not too pale, where one quarter of the very full bloom fills the entire frame except for a small bit of dark background in the upper right corner. The photo is taken directly facing the bloom, so the petals appear as rows of soft petal edges, almost like waves of petals from the centre at lower left. They are highlighted by a few drops of rain resting on the petals. The feeling is soft, delicate, sensuous.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #SilentSunday #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

A closeup of a flower with petals unfurling in a spiral from the centre. Most of each petal is a dark purple, and the edges are a creamy off-white. The most centre petals (each of a rounded-edge triangle shape) are small and overlap about half of each petal below it. By the outer edge, about 15 petals, only the top or outermost part of the petal is visible. The background has one in focus leaf, and other blurred greens.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Dahlia #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #Fotografia #MastoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

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A close up of a bright pinkish-purple dahlia bloom with eight petals and a bright yellow centre fills most of the frame. A soft grey tone, roughly textured wall is blurred as background.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

#Breathe

#Flowers #FlowerPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #1000Breaths

Three pale pink tulips with point petals set against a backdrop of criss-crossing long narrow leaves. The closest tulip, bottom right, is just starting to open. The middle one, on the left, is wide and open, and the one farthest back, top right, is mid way open, slightly out of focus.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

At the encouragement of some friends, I’ve also started uploading images to a site where you can print things like small canvas prints and puzzles. I always aimed to craft the image in a way that it would make a great puzzle. (I love puzzles.)

So that’s it for now. Breathe and, if you’d like, follow #1000Breaths. Be well.

Francisca

7/7

A close up of a tulip where the bloom fills almost the entire screen. The bulb is a soft pink with green marking, the bloom is very open, and the long petals or pale pink have undulating edges and end in a point. The stamen is white and visible between the open petals. The background is muted greens with some upward lines of the leaves. NGL, Overall it looks a bit like a dragon’s head, with one long petal unfurled towards the lower right corner.

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

… exhale slowly over a count of four. For yourself. And there’s no harm in taking a second one.

#1000Breaths. If an image resonates with you, save it and look at it through the day or use it as your screensaver or background, and breathe. 6/x

Francisca Sinn

3 months ago

I invite you to come along with me and do the same for yourself. If one of my images comes across your feed, I invite you to pause for a moment and take a breath, and I hope that brings a moment of calm and some light into your day. And if you’re having a day where you could use a little help, come take a breath. I’ll tag them #1000Breaths so you can easily find the latest, and when you see it, take a moment to breathe a full chest full of air, and exhale … 5/x