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25-APR-2005 michlob

Early Spring Blue Bells

Chinchilla, PA

What a great surprise! Right outside my front door of my condo, the association planted these luscious blue bell spring flowers. So I got down on my knees and placed my 20D on a rock and shot this pretty flower from almost ground level, picking up some interesting early evening bokeh. I was really pleased with the color, sharpness and low noise of this delicious flower. Hope you enjoy looking at it.

About Bluebells

The bluebell, popularly thought of as Britain's national flower, is a bulbous spring flowering plant. When growing en masse in woodlands it creates a dazzling display of brilliant blue, which is not only a great wild flower phenomenon, but also a British speciality. The fragrant bell-shaped flowers stand upright when they are in bud, but hang downwards, nodding in the breeze when fully open; they may be violet-blue, white or even pink on rare occasions, and have cream-coloured anthers. They are arranged in clusters of 4-16 on flower spikes (known as racemes), which have drooping tips. The narrow leaves are deep green, and grow to 45 cm in length. The unusual specific part of the scientific name 'non-scripta' means 'unlettered', and distinguishes this species from the hyacinth, which in Greek mythology sprang from the blood of the prince Hyacinthus as he died; in his grief at this tragedy, the God Apollo wrote 'AIAI' ('alas') on the petals of this flower.

Photo by Michael Weinberg Photography of Scranton and Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.


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Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
1/50s f/5.6 at 50.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Sara 05-May-2009 00:27
Those are not bluebells; those are grape hyacinths...:-(
Guest 06-Oct-2005 10:33
Really Good.
Shi Chen02-Jul-2005 07:16
Wonderful gallery! I also shooting flower pictures. You are welcome to my flower Gallery.