Bauhinia Monandra (Pink Orchid Tree) Flower Cluster

'Bauhinia Monandra (Pink Orchid Tree) Flower Cluster

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'Bauhinia Monandra (Pink Orchid Tree) Flower Cluster'
by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 Photography

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I am finally seeing a sparse one or two isolated cluster groups of these lovely pink orchid tree (Dwarf Bauhinia monandra) flowers blossoming in our rural home garden, near Innisfail, Far North Queensland, Australia.

Unique flower features

• Butterfly-like
• Every cluster appears unique in composition
• The Dwarf Bauhinia Monandra flowers open first as red/rose with yellow tips
  then quickly change to a very sweet pink, then hold the pink
• A rare variety ~ develops pink orchid-like flowers with red blotches or dots, the uppermost one splotched with deeper red, yellow or yellow-margined
• The petals are spreading, each about 2.5 – 4 cm long

Tree’s characteristic features

• Small, rounded-crowned tree with smooth gray bark.
• Twin lobed leaves which are 4 to 6 inches across and cleft almost to the middle, giving the leaf the shape of a hoof print.
• Native of Burma

Since the recent late wet season’s few days of heavy rainfall (delivered by Ex Tropical Cyclone Oswald last week in January) a couple more have bloomed, but they are only still appearing in very limited quantities. Perhaps our tropical soil is not acidic enough but the tree plants are still relatively young!
I am observing their progress with keen interest.

Camera/Shoot Details
Handheld Pentax K-5 II s Lens DA* 50-135
1/100s@ f/2.8, ISO 200, FL.135mm
Date – Jan.13, 2013 Time – 18.04.11
Raw file ~ Processed/edited via CS2.

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Wild Rainbow Lorikeets Feeding ~ Innisfail, FNQ, AU.

My first blog for the New Year 2013 and my first published 2013 photographic image 'Wild Rainbow Lorikeets Feeding ~ Innisfail, FNQ, AU.' which originates from my first 2013 photographic shoot session with some new photographic equipment attained through the disguise of that dear generous mythical, magical creature called 'Santa'!  8 )

The FNQ landscape has been pretty much sun parched, greens turning yellowish-brown shades, well up until Christmas Eve when Innisfail finally received a first decent rainfall in months, all of 50mm.  It is a somewhat very mild and slow beginning to our Wet Season which is, by the way, a very welcome change when compared to the dramatic heavy rains and floods experienced in previous December periods ('big wet' example image here).

So even though the tropical heat and humidity prevails at this time of year, we have been enjoying, since Christmas and the New Year, some continual light and moderate showery, often early morning, rains and cooling south-easterly winds and breezes ~ all gratefully received.

Nature and the tropical landscape have been considerably revived. All is indeed looking refreshed with the greens vibrant once more. The growth rate in plants and grass usually soar to new heights during this intense time of year, while I myself try to stay cool and skin dry as much as I possibly can with ceiling or pedestal fans close by! The unpleasantness of Prickly heat, fungal and skin rashes are best to be avoided with all due care taken.  The best time for me to photograph 'outside' is either early morn or late afternoon and even then, more often than not, I'll end up with clothes soaked in perspiration and itchy from mozzie bites depending on the (lack of) breeze and location.

'Wild Rainbow Lorikeets Feeding ~ Innisfail, FNQ, AU.'
by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2013 Photography

About the image.
In slightly windy conditions some wild Rainbow Lorikeets were spotted (through the lens) clinging to and feeding from the very large pendular inflorescence on a well established Alexandra palm tree (Archontophoenix alexandrae).
Location ~ Innisfail, tropical Far North Queensland, Australia.
Photo Shoot Date ~ Jan.04, 2013.  Time - 18:14:11

*An 'inflorescence' is a cluster of flowers on one or a series of branches, which together make a large showy blossom.

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"Attraction" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

Displaying vibrantly under a canopy of leaves in the shade are pendulant bracts of striking red with yellow and green tips of the exotic tropical bloom, in the early flowering stages, of the Heliconia Rostrata (hanging red lobster claw).

The attracted iridescent blue-green beetle species is unknown.

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Photo taken early November (dry season) in my home backyard garden, near Innisfail, Far North Queensland, Australia.

"White Tipped Red Torch Ginger Bloom" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

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'White Tipped Red Torch Ginger Bloom' by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
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"Affairs of the Heart" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

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I produced this digitally manipulated artwork image using Photoshop (worked from a dig.photo of a work-in-progress ~ a lino-printed composition using three plates).

"Affairs of the Heart" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2012
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"Affairs of the Heart" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2012
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"Beyond Matter" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

• “All that lies before us and all that lies behind us
  are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Beyond Matter by K.Madsen-Pietsch ©2012 Photography
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Greeting a tropical dawn through a curtain veil of a Silver Weeping Tea Tree.I planted this at the front of our home property near Innisfail, Far North Queensland, AU, some 20+ years ago now.  (My, how time flies when kept busy!)

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* Through a Google research, the tree’s official botanical name is ‘LEPTOSPERMUM brachyandrum’ which is a member of the Myrtaceae family. Tea Tree is the accepted common name for plants in this genus.

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"Pathway of Journeys" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

Honoured to have my work Pathway of Journeys recently featured in the Women Painters group on Redbubble.

"Pathway of Journeys" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

About this work
Medium: Mixed media – acrylic, charcoal, collage, montage, wood, sticks, shells, seedpods, string, fabric, paper, own photographic imagery taken from my temporary sculpture installation work done at Brampston Beach, Far North Queensland.
+ Support: 9mm plyboard.
+ Original size: 600 × 1200 × 30mm

+ This was an earlier work that was completed for the themed group exhibition Landmarks, held at Innisfail Art Space.
+ Work has sold and is with a private collector, Innisfail, Qld.

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The work has also become a Top Ten 'Collage' Challenge Winner in the Women Painters Group @RedBubble.

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"Welcome To My World " by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

Dynamic elements found in nature.
Always amazed at finding these wonderful structures, I've zoomed in on a shot taken of a ‘huge’ dome web glistening in sparkling sunlight, a jewel-like palace, with it’s homemaker a tiny Dome spider. Situated at the Botanic Flecker Gardens, Cairns, tropical Far North Queensland, Australia.

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"Dappled Delight" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

A different angle, some glorious wintery mid-afternoon spots of dappled sunlight on this delicate hanging annual Zygocactus flower, combined with using an old faithful manual 50mm Pentax Prime lens created some lovely varying compositional effects I’m really happy with.

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Photo taken at home, near Innisfail, rural Far North Queensland, Australia.


Camera/Shoot Details
Handheld Pentax K10D, Prime Lens smc Pentax 55mm F1.2
1/1000sec, manually set @F22, ISO 100, manual focus.
Photo – Natural state. Raw file processed thru Photoshop.

"Alluring Sexy Pink and Greens" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

My Sexy Pink Heliconia plants are flowering really well this year, first time ever.

Finally, with some fine tropical winter weather last week (early July), I had the chance to spend time photographing in my ‘ever expanding’, very green garden using my very first manual prime lens after recently being reacquainted! It still works beautifully.

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