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Pink tulip


Pink tulip
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Copyright: Lenka Gondova (lgfoto) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 210 W: 66 N: 252] (2190)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-12
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon 40D, Sigma 180mm/f3.5 APO Macro
Exposure: f/8, 1/100 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Beautiful Tulips [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-12-21 8:43
Viewed: 658
Points: 12
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Tulip (Tulipa) is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. Its region includes southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran in the east to northeast of China. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan.

They are perennial bulbous plants growing to 10–70 centimetres (4–27 in) tall, with a small number of strap-shaped, waxy-textured, usually glaucous green leaves and large flowers with six petals. The fruit is a dry capsule containing numerous flat disc-shaped seeds.

Although tulips are associated with Holland, both the flower and its name originated in the Persian Empire. The tulip is actually not a Dutch flower as many people tend to believe. The tulip, or "Laleh" as it's called in Persian, is a flower indigenous to Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey and other parts of Central Asia. A Dutch ambassador in Turkey in the 16th century, who was also a great floral enthusiast, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, got their very names because of their Persian origins. Tulips were brought to Europe in the 16th century; the word tulip, which earlier in English appeared in such forms as tulipa or tulipant, came to us by way of French tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend, "muslin, gauze." (The English word turban, first recorded in English in the 16th century, can also be traced to Ottoman Turkish tülbend.) The Turkish word for gauze, with which turbans can be wrapped, seems to have been used for the flower because a fully opened tulip was thought to resemble a turban.

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Great picture, very clear & vibrant

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  • AndroK Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 1517 W: 23 N: 0] (11908)
  • [2007-12-21 9:30]

Beautiful shot...
Nice composition and colors...
Greetings from Montenegro...
Andro

well composed and managed, good shot
regards
jo

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  • juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2633 W: 1 N: 1274] (15483)
  • [2007-12-21 15:48]

Hola Lenka,
precioso trabajo,
detalles y buenos colores,
excelente trabajo,
saludos

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  • mud Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 43 W: 3 N: 13] (317)
  • [2007-12-21 19:43]

wonderful color and DOF

Hi dear friend,
wonderful posting with nice fine details and crop. I would love to see it on a black BG, but this it's only my oppinion :)
Best wishes and a happy X-mas with your loved ones!
Ioana
:) soon

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