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Weeping Widow
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Lori Cannon (LCannon)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 379 W: 145 N: 799]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (3093) |
| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-04-05 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Fujifilm Finepix S5700 |
| Exposure: f/3.5, 1/75 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-04-08 22:35 |
| Viewed: 837 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
I've posted two photos of the Grass Widow recently, so I'll not go into the scientific information about this flower. For that please see my previous postings.
I took this photo with my new camera, but this captures my hike and how I felt that day. I headed up Starvation Ridge trail, it was POURING down rain, but I went anyway, wanting to try out the new camera, but because of the rain, I was afraid of ruining it so took several "Quick" shots, just to get a feel for it. I hope to have more time the next time I use my camera to capture some better shots, although I liked this "Weeping Grass Widow"
From World Wide Words....
"Where does the term grass widow come from?
The usual meaning given in British dictionaries is of a woman whose husband is temporarily away, say on business. This sense is known in other English-speaking communities such as Australia. It has long been used in the USA in the rather different sense of “a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband”, as the Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary has it.
The phrase itself is much older than British India. It’s first used by Sir Thomas More in his Dialogue of 1528. But then it meant something rather different: either an abandoned mistress or an unmarried woman who had cohabited with several men. It might have expressed the idea that the abandoned lover had been “put out to grass”." |
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- SkyF
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- [2008-04-09 6:20]
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Hello Lori,
A fine macro of the flower. The flower in itself is wonderful, but having those little rain droplets on it makes it even more special.
The colors are wonderful and the details are perfectly sharp.
TFS..Sky
