This morning I was laying on our trampoline and looked up to this flower (no idea what it is called in English). And then I realised I did not shoot a flower in my garden for months. So here it is (duty fulfilled).
Great angle, pretty colors...summer day with a breeze shot. I think you got the lighting just right and also the balance of interest across the screen. I really like that jet contrail echoing the line of the hibiscus stalk in reverse!
If I got on a trampoline, that's what I would be doing laying down. Either that or falling off. Excellent photo. Love the softness of the whole image. Flower against the sky really makes a nice contrast. Now back to jumping.
These are beautiful Hollyhocks, Paul, members of the Mallow family. They do sort of resemble hibiscus. They are biennials and those seed pods can be saved and you can plant some more of these lovelies. My grandmother used to have lots of these outside her door for years and that's where I came to love them.
Sometimes we have to lie down or realign ourselves to see things from another perspective or just to notice them at all. I'm glad you noticed these because the blue and pink together make this a wonderful, bright image.
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web." Pablo Picasso
Well, my dear Paul...yes, it's a Hollyhock. Such a pretty flower..and well, what were you doing being sooooooooooo lazy and laying on your trampouline??!! I guess you had to rest up from you holiday recently? Tsk tsk...lazy man..but I sure love the flower...that is the most pretty pink I've seen in a long time...verrrrrrrrrry romantic!! (the colour I mean.lol) Verena
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Edward Weston
And a very pretty colour it is too, lovely shot!