Cycles by auntietk
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
From the Garden of One Thousand Buddhas in Montana.
I liked all the various stages, seeing so many steps in the life cycle of this plant. Seemed appropriate for the setting ... an easy association to the impermanence of things.

Comments (18)
Well, you know I'll just LOVE this!
It's a perfect example of my theory that for an image to be successful it should make you want to cross the room to see it better.
Wonderful in every way!
Pure art of photography !!!!!!!!
Wonderful floral photography.
This is so beautiful, dear Tara. I cannot find the site mail. All seems so difficult. Hugs. Di. xx
Wonderful shot T!!
Lovely colors and composition.
Wonderful photo! The way you chose to compose this to best show off the different cycles and colors is just pure art!
Outstanding capture Tara. God bless.
Indeed this is sooo interesting to think about and to observe, thereby is this a very creative and lovely photo, also by its superb colours. It's a fantastic display, dear Tara! btw I'm also thinking about what flower this is, I thought Helenium, or Rudbeckia, but they don't have such seed. For me unknown, or one of the Buddha's did something with this flowers, some mysterious thing, LOL !
What a beautiful soft image this is, super capture Tara.
This is so lovely; the light is perfect, and the degrees of clarity to softness are perfect. Well done!
Andrea said it! Just marvelous Hun!
Oh, I like this. Must have walked right by something like this and never saw it. Thanks for adding to my enlightenment:)
Very beautiful capture lovely to see all phases
What a fabulous shot and "cycle" is a perfect title for these beautiful flowers and their older siblings. :)
You managed to find an awful lot of variety in a very small space - well seen & very well composed...
Fraîcheur et délicatesse, un amour !
it's never easy for me to "pick up" somewhere in your gallery. Because of my long comments, I can't comment on everything; and picking what to comment on is like favoring one child over the other when you love all of them equally. So I just go with the flow, and remind you that I think no less of the others. So...
I love the concept that this garden shows the many cycles of a plant, as a symbol of Buddha's teaching. Like Claude says, you show much variety in one space. With the stems---esp at top, where they rush by us in diagonals (and there's one that cuts right in front of the flowers)---you captured a strangely "moving" sight, where the flowers seem to appear in the midst of a whooshing time warp in the background, even more a symbol of buddha's teachings. And the flowers are a wonderful array of textures and hues, which you show both clumped and spread apart. A very active photo, for a little 'snippet'. And your crop brings home the excerpt-out-of-life feeling, which only more gets at Buddha's teaching, ie that our lives are but snippets of the cosmos. Beautifully done. And a beautiful little 'miniature' too.