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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 11, 2019, 04:00:55 pm

Title: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 11, 2019, 04:00:55 pm: Spotted this unusual flower (?) in my local park, under a huge old tree. Kept walking, only to find a roadkill a few yards away. Such is life.

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Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 11, 2019, 04:18:25 pm: Strange. It doesn't look like an Amanita, but I still wouldn't take it home to cook for dinner.
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: rabanito on October 11, 2019, 05:25:45 pm: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 11, 2019, 04:18:25 pm
Strange. It doesn't look like an Amanita, but I still wouldn't take it home to cook for dinner.
That's a flower, Eric. The filaments look like stamen :)
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 11, 2019, 11:29:10 pm: Quote from: rabanito on October 11, 2019, 05:25:45 pm
That's a flower, Eric. The filaments look like stamen :)
I can believe you. I have certainly never seen anything remotely like it.

It is interesting for being bizarre.
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Ivo_B on October 12, 2019, 12:39:31 pm: Is it fungi?
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 12, 2019, 01:56:07 pm: B&W version:
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: KLaban on October 12, 2019, 02:01:36 pm: Quote from: Ivo_B on October 12, 2019, 12:39:31 pm
Is it fungi?

Nope.
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on October 12, 2019, 03:07:21 pm: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 12, 2019, 01:56:07 pm
B&W version:

I think the one on the right looks better in B&W; the one on the left, in colour. As a pair, I can't make up my mind.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: rabanito on October 12, 2019, 03:58:45 pm: Quote from: Ivo_B on October 12, 2019, 12:39:31 pm
Is it fungi?
Fungi are not plants and have no flowers ;)
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: John R on October 12, 2019, 05:54:26 pm: Quote from: Jeremy Roussak on October 12, 2019, 03:07:21 pm
I think the one on the right looks better in B&W; the one on the left, in colour. As a pair, I can't make up my mind.

Jeremy
I agree. The green leaf and the different orange-browns really come to life on the left image.

JR
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 12, 2019, 06:09:56 pm: Quote from: Jeremy Roussak on October 12, 2019, 03:07:21 pm
I think the one on the right looks better in B&W; the one on the left, in colour. As a pair, I can't make up my mind.

Ok... there is something to it. It is not inconceivable that life is represented with color and death with absence of color :)
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 12, 2019, 11:12:02 pm: Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 12, 2019, 06:09:56 pm
Ok... there is something to it. It is not inconceivable that life is represented with color and death with absence of color :)
I like that!

But I still wonder what the heck kind of flowers they are/were.
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: Rob C on October 13, 2019, 11:18:38 am: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 12, 2019, 11:12:02 pm
I like that!

But I still wonder what the heck kind of flowers they are/were.

Exotica.

:-)
Title: Re: Life & Death Diptych
Post by: John R on October 13, 2019, 11:58:34 am: I really like these, and the before and after theme and that they may represent.

JR