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Life & Death Diptych
« 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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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2019, 05:25:45 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  :)
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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2019, 11:29:10 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.
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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2019, 12:39:31 pm »

Is it fungi?
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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2019, 01:56:07 pm »

B&W version:

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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2019, 02:01:36 pm »

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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2019, 03:07:21 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.

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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2019, 03:58:45 pm »

Is it fungi?
Fungi are not plants and have no flowers  ;)
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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2019, 05:54:26 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.

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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2019, 06:09:56 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 :)

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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2019, 11:12:02 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.
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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2019, 11:18:38 am »

I like that!

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


Exotica.

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Re: Life & Death Diptych
« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2019, 11:58:34 am »

I really like these, and the before and after theme and that they may represent.

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