July 14, 2010
Bloom day scans
Just time for a couple of quick scans. Lots blooming. But no time to do anything really artsy-fartsy. Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here. Practice up. I’ll be judging the Picture This contest in October. See Nan’s post and scans.
Name those blooms in comments.
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Phlox, dahlias, nicotiana, petunias, marigolds, foxglove, daylily… I named all of the easy ones, someone else can fill in the blanks! Thanks for joining in for bloom day with your scans.
Hmmm… maybe monarda in the lower scan along with dahlia, heuchera (?) and/or achillea I think, but not sure. I’m still fascinated by those bloom scans, though.
I like how the lantana still shows a globe (globular) shape in the first scan… great layering and texture!
Your drumstick alliums look good yet, Craig! (Mine are spent.) Is that a crocosmia in the middle of the first shot?
I have just recently discovered the scanned flower photos. This is such a lovely process. Something else to do with the new scanner. Is there a white spirea in the second photo?
Oh, and mint in the first shot. How did I miss that?
@healingmagichands: Where did my first comment go???
In the first scan: petunia, nicotiana, marigold, foxglove, rose campion, day lily, helantus, hardy geraniums, two kinds of lantana, drumstick allium, yarrow, crocosmia, impatiens, echinacea and a long spike of tiny flowers I do not know.
Second scan appears to be several kinds of spirea, a dahlia, monarda (bee balm), yarrow and vinca (or nicotiana or impatiens — not sure)
I have been thoroughly enjoying the bloom scans as the challenge from GGW. I can’t imagine why I haven’t tried this before, it is addictive and wonderfully stimulates my creative juices.
Very compelling images. Scanning flowers would make a terrific school or summer camp project for appropriately-equipped classrooms. Thanks for sharing the technique!
My guess:
1st scan: petunia, heliopsis, marigold, nicotiana, foxglove, astilbe, mint, daylily, hardy geranium, lantana, garden phlox, crocosmia, yarrow, echinacea.
2nd scan: spirea, zinnia (or dahlia, some of them look alike), queen of the prairie, nicotiana, bee balm, yarrow.
Great blooms, whatever they are!
Nicely done, Sylvana. In the first one, the heliopsis is actuall a ligularia. Mint a stachys.There’s also an allium hiding in there. too. In the second, the spirea is a sorbaria, and there’s a eupatorium.