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A photo with a haunting atmosphere
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#1 of 8 posted
20 NOV 13 by
Smtysm
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There is a deep, looming forest just beyond the small clearing behind the rose. It would be nice to wander through there some early misty, dripping morning.
Trying to take some pictures of habit, pedicels, petioles, stipules and bracts etc to make the serious scientists, Patricia and Margaret happy.
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Yes, of course. We need the stipules to prove Cicely O'Rorke is not a chance seedling of Radox Bouquet.
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#3 of 8 posted
20 NOV 13 by
Smtysm
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HABIT :D To distinguish it from something prickleless. Like the famous Red Ox Parfait to which you meant. to refer
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Behind all this is the problem of the "good photo" of a rose, like a "good photo" of one's children, making them look handsomer and better tempered than one had thought. Related are those roses like Princesse de Sagan which only take "bad" photos but in the real world have a magical presence.
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#5 of 8 posted
20 NOV 13 by
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Exactly. Without exception, roses I've dismissed in books have turned out to look wondrous 'in person'. Down with the hegemonies of symmetry and the predictable.
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Alister Clark roses suffer most from this. So often they look such a mess in photos when they have been all charm in vivo. Occasionally they are bad in vivo, though one forgives them: Lady Huntingfield's flowers hang around on the bush like dead bodies after a tsunami, a dismal fact shown in very few photos.
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#6 of 8 posted
20 NOV 13 by
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Beautyof Rosmawr is another hard to photograph China. I hope Princesse de Sagan's 'moderate' fragrance is as pervasively lovely as Beauty of Rosmawr's supposedly moderate one.
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The bush I saw of Princesse de Sagan had hundreds of modest flowers and their collective scent was enthralling.
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