Saturday, September 16, 2006
Begonias

Comments:
This has associations with Andalucia or the Sephardic trail but could equally be somewhere like Bath! Geraniums? That earlier association is very much to do with the exactness of the composition as much as the vivid colour and the mosaic-like formation of the surrounding stones. It is a very successful use of the camera to produce a formalised picture. In terms of picking out detail the most striking thing is the moisture from the crushed petals. How kind of man and nature to arrange this for you!!!
At first glance I was convinced that the frame was a Photoshop effort. I'm pleased that I was incorrect. Colour and texture are the interest for me here. Those crushed flowers are like daubs of oil paint. My feelings on viewing this image are of violence, though I don't suppose that's particularly surprising and perhaps those feelings would have been lessened by viewing this larger (not that they need lessening).
I have another image where I prefer the arrangement of the squashed flowers but unfortunately I cropped off part of the 'border' in the camera. I have considered 'nicking' this border for the other flowers.
Premia is to premium, as stadia is to stadium as begonia is to begonium?
I think the border though an integral part of the shot leaves you with a little too much empty space on the right hand side which the texture in the stone is not strong enough to carry on its own.
I can understand akikana's quibble about the space on the right, and if this were a design for a decorative tile or somesuch I would agree. But as a record of an accident of nature I don't think it needs anything else (although I don't think I would have resisted getting rid of the green weed). As it is, it is ambiguous. What is going on? Is this a single paving slab or a path? Might more flowers fall if we wait? It has strength in that ambiguity.
Oh, and my understanding is that begonia/s is correct.
" Genus Begonia, family Begoniaceae.ORIGIN modern Latin, named after Michel Bégon (1638–1710), French amateur botanist who discovered the plant on the island of Santo Domingo and introduced it to Europe."
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I think the border though an integral part of the shot leaves you with a little too much empty space on the right hand side which the texture in the stone is not strong enough to carry on its own.
Oh, and my understanding is that begonia/s is correct.
" Genus Begonia, family Begoniaceae.ORIGIN modern Latin, named after Michel Bégon (1638–1710), French amateur botanist who discovered the plant on the island of Santo Domingo and introduced it to Europe."
