"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
©2012 Photography

 

"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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"Dappled Delight" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch ©2012 Photography
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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.

"Come Closer (Flutterer)" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

 Detail Section of Flutterer

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"Flutterer" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | Redbubble

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The subject matter, a flowering pastel pink-white zygocactus, is such a beautiful delicate example of one of nature's amazing aero-dynamic designs.

In contrast to the previous post image of 'Ethereal Beauty' with direct sunlight spots, 'Flutterer' is a softer, more subtle, lower key tonal image due to the different light source - reflected light from a heavy overcast grey sky.

With less breezes this time round, it made for easier 'manual' focusing and shooting of a non-wavering delicate suspended flower from a hanging basket.

As I like to get the most sensitive detailed shot using the lowest Aperture Priority camera setting at 100, it also means the time shoot lapse will be slower in lower light conditions.

Taken again using the old resurrected Prime 55mm Pentax lens.

Camera/Shoot Details

• Handheld Pentax K10D, Prime Lens smc Pentax 55mm F1.2
  1/90sec @F22, ISO 100, manual focus.
• Photo processing - Natural state.

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"Togetherness " by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

Everything is refreshed after a very early morning tropical rain shower during our hot and humid 2011-2012 (much anticipated/delayed) ‘wet’ season.
Day/night temp’s fluctuate usually between 25 – 33 degrees Celsius.

You will only see these multiple bulbous green creeper vine plants with their rich and vibrant flaring ‘fire-flame’ flowers growing usually over all other plants in the garden at this time of year.

(The vampire sucking mozzies were pretty full on too!)

Photo Shoot taken - 1 Feb.2012 Time 6:11:35 AM
Location – Innisfail, Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Togetherness (Fire-Flame Flowers) ©KMP2012
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"Night Bloomer ~ White Water Lily with Splayed Petals " by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch | RedBubble

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"Night Bloomer ~ White Water Lily with Splayed Petals"
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Early morning ~ white petal water lily, a night bloomer that grows on a long stem. 2nd and last day showing.  Grown in a small fish pond in the backyard of our home, near Innisfail, Tropical Far North Queensland, Australia.  

* Extra note
From my nature observations to date since photographing this bloom last April, these water lily plants must flower only once a year.

Previous post was about the Beast, now for some Beauty!

The work Dual Splendour (below) was painted for total right side brain relaxation mode back in Jan.2006, after a very busy lead up to Christmas retail business period. Usually I work in 'hidden discovery' non-objective mode for non-preordained experimental compositional results but in this instance I've allowed myself to work quite prescriptively here, with a predetermined photographic image taken from my recent rose shoot series.
Listening to my inner instincts I had a strong desire to paint with oils, to try out a warm/cool dual under painting approach and incorporate a build-up of translucent glazes for their rich luminosity. On completion it was interesting to note that people who knew of my previous creative art work habits had no idea I had painted this work. Being in my retail shop people had asked me “who was the artist?” (:-) I know I am very capable of painting and drawing realistically.

After university and years of a creative art practice and art teaching, creativity, with all its challenges and rewards, has infused and permeated my whole being, like oxygen is required in the blood it supports and maintains my life and flows continually, fluently through the positive higher energy veins of this universe.

• Original artwork: Rose Splendour
• Oil with an acrylic texture underlayer on stretched canvas support.
• Size: H. 675 mm x W. 998 mm.
• Framed with a large round gold and inner flat small navy blue liner frame
• Exhibited Feast of the Senses, Innisfail and was jury accepted into the Cairns Art Society Inc Annual Art Exhibition held Cairns Regional Gallery, where it was positioned in a prime position at front entrance.
  (Note of interest - I actually was awarded a 'commended' for another work, entered/accepted in the 'abstract' section).

Rose Splendour - by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch
Oil painting on a stretched canvas.
Work has sold.

 

 

• Background: Heavily perfumed these roses were so ready for the picking. A gorgeous variety of roses were grown that year by my husband (he goes through phases) during the cooler winter months of our Far North Queensland tropical climate, in tubs up off the ground (because it rains so much) in our rainforest backyard near Innisfail. I arranged and photo documented many of the different roses for future artwork reference material. My painting time and a rose series was stopped short with Cyclone Larry's devasting visit in March that same year.

• Concept: In this work, the concept of duality is explored at various levels, such as: in the division of textures (smooth and rough); the warm and cool underpainting tones used on each half of the canvas; bright sunlight and cast shadow, with the complimentary contrast of magnificent fleshy orange, round spiraling rose petals branching out into full bloom in the foreground, to jagged edges and silhouetted dark blue/green cast shadows in the background.

• Prints: Artwork image is available in a variety of reproduction prints, eg.card, mounted or laminate print, poster or framed, at my RedBubble Gallery