Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Red Amaryllis

First time to join Ruby Tuesday! For quite sometime, this blog has been missing a post for Tuesdays because I cannot find a photo meme that was hosted every Tuesday. Through bloghopping, I came across this Ruby Tuesday meme, and decided to make it my Tuesday meme here in Shutter Happenings. Thanks to "the Teach" for hosting this awesome meme.

Here, participants post a picture of anything that is colored red. Here's my entry for this week:



Amaryllis
I saw this awesome flower when sister and I went to the Lung Center weekend market last June 08. The color of this flower was so wonderful, I just had to take a picture of it. actually, I did buy an amaryllis plant, but is slowly dying now. It did give me one great flower, but after the flower wilted, the whole plant is now slowly dying. There were still some good leaves, but they were turning yellowish by the minute. Mom said all of the leaves might fall off in the next few days, but I said we will just let them be, maybe the leaves will die but the bulb might give some fresh new leaves in the future.

Photo shot using Canon Powershot A580 digital camera - set to foliage, macro, no flash. Sorry if the details weren't that clear, it's really hard to do macro shots on red subjects, and I don't know why.

*** Jenn ***

18 comments:

Carletta said...

Gorgeous!!

Gemma Wiseman said...

I still believe is is simply beautiful as it is!

RW said...

Very beautiful, good Ruby Tuesday to you.

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous red flower!!
Happy Ruby Tuesday :)

me ann my camera said...

A lovely colour red, and great phoptography!
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Ivanhoe said...

Beautiful shot! It's my first time as well. Have a great Tuesday!

Anonymous said...

That's a stunner!

Dianne said...

It may be hard to do macro shots on red but you made it look easy.

The detail and color are stunning!!

Snowbird said...

Absolutely gorgeous. Don't ya just love red?? Thanks for visiting my blog.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful Red Amaryllis! We have one here at the leaves only stage too.

Odat said...

Happy Ruby Tuesday and welcome aboard.

Simply beautiful!!!

Peace

Raven said...

Wow! What a gorgeous flower! Nice shot.

Tink *~*~* said...

Awesome that you captured it with the dew still clinging to it. :D

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Patti said...

Stunning photo of this red flower! Well done.


Happy Ruby Tuesday.

maryt/theteach said...

Welcome to Ruby Tuesday! I'm so glad you could join us! That's a beautiful amaryllis! :)

Ladynred said...

Simply gorgeous! love the red lily.
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Lou said...

It's beautiful...I don't think the color of the flower has something to do with the clarity...it's always a challenge to take photos in macro when you're using a point and shoot cam..you need an SLR with a powerful macro lens. :-)

Lou

 
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