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Scape.733

Some searches are together where as some searches need be alone...

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PS: lowered contrast and enhanced brightness to give a dreamy effect :rolleyes:

Regards :)

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Originally Posted by Wavelength

Thank you very much Brian; but this one is seen on a fruit already growing :)

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'Botany
Pineapple in the starting stage.

The pineapple is a herbaceous perennial, which grows to 1.0 to 1.5 m (3.3 to 4.9 ft) tall, although sometimes it can be taller. In appearance, the plant has a short, stocky stem with tough, waxy leaves. When creating its fruit, it usually produces up to 200 flowers, although some large-fruited cultivars can exceed this. Once it flowers, the individual fruits of the flowers join together to create what is commonly referred to as a pineapple. After the first fruit is produced, side shoots (called 'suckers' by commercial growers) are produced in the leaf axils of the main stem. These may be removed for propagation, or left to produce additional fruits on the original plant.[5] Commercially, suckers that appear around the base are cultivated. It has 30 or more long, narrow, fleshy, trough-shaped leaves with sharp spines along the margins that are 30 to 100 cm (1.0 to 3.3 ft) long, surrounding a thick stem. In the first year of growth, the axis lengthens and thickens, bearing numerous leaves in close spirals. After 12 to 20 months, the stem grows into a spike-like inflorescence up to 15 cm (6 in) long with over 100 spirally arranged, trimerous flowers, each subtended by a bract. Flower colors vary, depending on variety, from lavender, through light purple to red.[citation needed]

The ovaries develop into berries, which coalesce into a large, compact, multiple fruit. The fruit of a pineapple is arranged in two interlocking helices, eight in one direction, 13 in the other, each being a Fibonacci number.[12]'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple

The pineapple unlike a date, apple, orange or watermelon is not one fruit but rather multiple fruits that grow as one plant.

ooh, I really like #4 and your quote. This one reminds me a bit of an inside the car wash shot - does anyone else do that?!
Number 2 takes me somewhere but of where I am not sure. Thanks for the trip.

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Originally Posted by JBW

'Botany
Pineapple in the starting stage.

The pineapple is a herbaceous perennial, which grows to 1.0 to 1.5 m (3.3 to 4.9 ft) tall, although sometimes it can be taller. In appearance, the plant has a short, stocky stem with tough, waxy leaves. When creating its fruit, it usually produces up to 200 flowers, although some large-fruited cultivars can exceed this. Once it flowers, the individual fruits of the flowers join together to create what is commonly referred to as a pineapple. After the first fruit is produced, side shoots (called 'suckers' by commercial growers) are produced in the leaf axils of the main stem. These may be removed for propagation, or left to produce additional fruits on the original plant.[5] Commercially, suckers that appear around the base are cultivated. It has 30 or more long, narrow, fleshy, trough-shaped leaves with sharp spines along the margins that are 30 to 100 cm (1.0 to 3.3 ft) long, surrounding a thick stem. In the first year of growth, the axis lengthens and thickens, bearing numerous leaves in close spirals. After 12 to 20 months, the stem grows into a spike-like inflorescence up to 15 cm (6 in) long with over 100 spirally arranged, trimerous flowers, each subtended by a bract. Flower colors vary, depending on variety, from lavender, through light purple to red.[citation needed]

The ovaries develop into berries, which coalesce into a large, compact, multiple fruit. The fruit of a pineapple is arranged in two interlocking helices, eight in one direction, 13 in the other, each being a Fibonacci number.[12]'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple

The pineapple unlike a date, apple, orange or watermelon is not one fruit but rather multiple fruits that grow as one plant.

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WOW; great education; thank you very much Brian :)

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Originally Posted by Rainforest

ooh, I really like #4 and your quote. This one reminds me a bit of an inside the car wash shot - does anyone else do that?!
Number 2 takes me somewhere but of where I am not sure. Thanks for the trip.

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Thank you very much Susan; i liked your simile, but i think no body thought about it that way; thank you :)

733 nice glow and nice quote.

John, thank you very much indeed :)

Scape.734

Love, Live, Leave(Love Life; Live life and finally Leave the life...)

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Regards :)

Scape. 735

Mother Nature has countless color palettes for changing times and places....

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Regards :)

734-5, nicely captured and quoted.

734 That was a nice shot...
735 Also good but I think I have seen that one before or is this a new shot?

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Originally Posted by Shadowman

734-5, nicely captured and quoted.

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Thank you very much, John :)

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Originally Posted by IzzieK

734 That was a nice shot...
735 Also good but I think I have seen that one before or is this a new shot?

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Izzie, thank you very much; your brain is very young; even after seeing thousands of images these days, you remembered it, spot on :cool: When those words came to me, i wanted a scenery; but i had none in stock; so i used this one :)

Scape.736

Sometimes the beauty of light gets its finishing touches from darkness....

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Reposted as per Binnur's suggestion :)

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Regards :)

So many great shots Nandakumar :) IMO the borders of 736 don't fit the lovely blue color of the flower very much.

736, nicely exposed and quoted.

736, I am with John......beautiful.

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Originally Posted by bnnrcn

So many great shots Nandakumar :) IMO the borders of 736 don't fit the lovely blue color of the flower very much.

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Thank you very much, Binnur :)

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Originally Posted by Shadowman

736, nicely exposed and quoted.

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John, thank you really so much :)

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Originally Posted by IzzieK

736, I am with John......beautiful.

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Izzie, thank you very much indeed :)