In this social network era, it suddenly became a trend topic among many in this city: some talipot palms were flowering! Besides its beauty, I quite didn’t understood the uproar. Only when I knew that this plant has the biggest inflorescence among any other plant in the world, and that it only flowers once in its whole life, it made sense to me. I then rushed to capture this rare moment.
As a side note, although I live in a tropical country with a huge plant variety, this species isn’t native, but from @shreedhar’s land.
Photoflow: new edge sharpening tool, relight, tone mapping, curves.
I was lazy to remove the big light pole behind in Gimp or Darktable.
Sorry if I don’t present you sharper images, but I’m still struggling with DOF settings and a bad kit lens.
These files are licensed [Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike]
I still don’t get it.
Even if I was a native (which I’m not), I don’t see why it is awesome that a native goes shooting a beautiful non-native tree.
I mean, I don’t see the relevance of my native/non-native condition regarding capturing a non-native tree…
EDIT: @afre Please disregard my previous words, your comment is logical, my original sentence led to that. Sorry about the fuss.
My emphasis was on the statue and similar to edit of @age, I didn’t want the sky to disappear because it makes beautiful color contrast to the rest of the picture.
