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Collection: Plants
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Aug 17, 2008
Aperture: 5.02
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/501
Galleries: Nature, Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 18, 2008

Viewed: 327
Comments: 6
Favorites: 0

Side-view of a Datura blossom, with an Acacia tree as background.

-Handheld, Tv mode
-Zoom
-RGB Curve
-USM at 8%/32 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 8/10 = 112kb

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08/19/2008 11:44:52 PM
Unusual, and thanks for sharing this with us.
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08/19/2008 11:26:09 PM
Beautiful... beautiful.. I love the colors and detail on this flower. My guess, no wind this time, huh?? LOL
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08/19/2008 11:01:32 PM
Dancing, pretty things, aren't they. Nice job with this!
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08/19/2008 10:18:52 PM
Sweet shot! We have these in the botanical garden here, in various colors, they are so pretty. A challenge to get a nice BG, though. The best bet is usually the deep shade behind them, as you captured here.

If this is a hanging flower, as it looks, it's an Angels Trumpet or Brugmansia. Datura, or loco weed, flowers open rightside up. The Angels Trumpet seed pod is smooth. The seed pod of loco weed is extremely prickly, called a 'thorn apple.' These flowers are so interesting. You can find datura growing in the boiling sun & brick-hard earth at the edge of a road or ditch--the flowers open up in the late afternoon, stay open all night for moths to pollinate, & are gone by noon the next day. The two are related, both are considered poisonous. Lots of info if you google.
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08/19/2008 06:47:44 AM
amazing looking plant .. it looks almost like a flowing and very elegant skirt .. nearly, but not quite .. if i'd had some datura it could have become anything .. !!..;)
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08/18/2008 11:49:58 PM
This is out of character. But it is hanging! Very nice.
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