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Self-portrait
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Copyright: corinne Cocky (coquelicot79) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 565 W: 218 N: 1915] (8126)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-05-01
Categories: Daily Life, Humorous, Nature, Macro, Portrait
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7
Exposure: f/4, 1/100 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-05-08 15:59
Viewed: 418
Points: 22
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [French]
Poppy :

The poppy (Papaver rhoeas), also called culvert, is a plant dicotylédone of the family of Papavéracées, or poppies. Very abundant in the fields, the edges of ways or the waste grounds as from April, it's characterized by its red color and by the fact that it often forms large visible coloured carpets by far and who often inspired the impressionist painters (one owes in Claude Monet several tables of fields of poppies). Initially written coquelicoq (1545), its name is an alternative of former French coquerico, indicating the cock by onomatopoeia. It acts of a metaphor between the color of the flower and that of the peak of the cock.

The Corn Poppy, Field Poppy, Flanders Poppy, or Red Poppy is the wild poppy of agricultural cultivation—Papaver rhoeas. It's a variable annual plant.

It has become associated with wartime remembrance in the 20th century, especially during Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries. As poppies bloomed in much of the western front in World War I, poppies are a symbol of military veterans, especially of that war.

I took this pseudo because the poppy it is also this wild flower of red and black color which fades as soon as one tears off it with his freedom... (on the other hand I am neither red nor black but intense in what I do) ;ODD
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Bonsoir Corinne :o)
Très joli auto-portrait ! Quel jolie jupe rouge ;o) Note très intéressante aussi. Chouette capture de cette belle fleur sauvage qui ponctue le blé de son splendide rouge.
Bonne soirée Madame Coquelicot 'intense' ;o)
Bisous
Marylou

Perhaps the delicacy one needs with a poppy is a metaphor for the delicacy one needs to treat fellow humans, and to stop war. But anyway. I actually took pictures of a few flowers for a few of my self-portraits in my photography class, so I like the idea of titling your shot that way.
The colors are very beautiful and the detail and clarity is great. I do like how the center of the flower is off-center. Try maybe having the negative space more at the top and right side rather than the left since the flower is leaning to the right more. That way there will be more continuity in the composition. Great shallow depth of field that makes the flower pop out. TFS!
-Lara

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  • Beger Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3312 W: 788 N: 4424] (19910)
  • [2007-05-08 21:13]

Bonsoir Corinne,
Quelle séduisante idée pour ton auto-portrait! Éclatante capture. Si j'en crois la photo, tu dois être tout en couleur, finesse et subtilité! Le seul petit hic, j'aurai maintenant l'impression de te croquer quand je mangerai mes biscuits maison que je saupoudre de graines des pavot! :)))
Bravo! Annie

coucou coco
alors on a peur des toutes petites araignées?????
rien a craindre, je ne te l' enverrai pas par la poste!!!!*
bien sur différente de ton jolicoquelicot dont tu es amoureuse de cette fleur , on la bien compris avec ton pseudo
belle netteté de l'image et super macro
bisous ma cocotte
didith

Good afternoon Corinne

beautiful capture here so soft and delicate and yet such bold rich colour.
I think I will call you Poppy now then instead of Corinne :-)

TFS kind regards Helen

Hi Corinne,
So beatiful wild composition and macro.
Many thanks for your sharing and info.
Best wishes,
Haluk

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  • tibig Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 657 W: 26 N: 681] (7565)
  • [2007-05-10 9:28]

Well captured, you got a lot of nice details on the red flower, that is not easy! I also like the way the background tends to wave around the flower, it gives a very pleasant effect.
Regards,
Tibi

Bonjour Corinne
Belle netteté de ce coquelicot qui se détache bien du fond.était-il orange ou rouge ce coquelicot?
Je me suis permis un WS pour la teinte.
Amicalement
Gildas

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  • Danert Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 437 W: 18 N: 804] (4078)
  • [2007-05-10 22:11]

Bonsoir Corinne,
très drôle comme titre et je me demandais justement pour quand serait le coquelicot en écrivant la note sur ta rose rouge . Celui çi est splendide et moi qui pensait qu'il n'y en avait que des rouges . Superbe idée comme auto-portrait
Daniel

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  • Fons Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1300 W: 2 N: 202] (15610)
  • [2007-05-11 3:03]

Très beau coquelicot " mon ange"

very good graphical work, C!! TFS
John

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