Some tulips for Shaggy.

Not from Amsterdam but from the Khon Kaen 2015 flower show.

Not that I've seen any differences from the last 2 years shows

Official opening day is tomorrow morning, but I'm sorry to say this is the state of some of their flowers on display

Taken in a hotel lobby in Bangkok

^ Lovely shot Paul

TP,thanks mate.....you just saved my skin.

Those photos of the tulips,reminded me that I had promised Mrs Shaggy that I would bring some Tulip and Daffodil bulbs back with me next week!

Had completely for got about them!

I went to the Khon Kaen flower show last year,wont be going this year though...or any other year!

About done.... Canna lily as the sun was going down! .

Yesterday afternoon on the road to the top of Phupalek summit ( 622 m even so ! )

Not much of a flower, but I look forward to the pina collada, chicken curry and hoemoek (?).

And more food to come...

Done and swept up! ... Allemanda, never seems to stop blooming, drops flowers everyday!

Bougainvillea at the top of monkey hill:

Looks better close up:

Not that this guy was impressed:

First flower shot of 2016 ! Actually my first successful attempt at growing sunflowers !

May the New Year be cheery and bright!

I have been up to my ears in being busy this last week or so, in case anyone missed me

Some flowers of our garden; shot a few minutes ago

I finally today got my 350 baht Nikon/Fuji XF adapter (from China) for my Tamron fixed 90mm with 1:1 macro (app 140mm 35mm terms).

The Tamron (for Nikon) was bought used in Japan for app 6000 baht via Ebay.

It's all manual (focus & f) and not easy for me to use man. I shoot 3 pictures of my dog and they were all out of focus and were binned.

This lens is not one I will use much outside my land/house, it feels very heavy on the X-Pro1 and I used a tri foot for all the shoots I took today. I took 24 shoots out in the garden and I kept 8 of them. Not too bad for 1 days tests/attempts)

I seen some portraits photo from this lens and they are awesome, so something I gonna fiddle around with soon, if I can get my 6 year old son to sit still LOL.

IMGP1467 A-3 by John Rattigan, on Flickr

IMGP1505 A-2 by John Rattigan, on Flickr

A couple from a few years ago using a Pentax K30.

Bougainvillea (again) with all 3 flowers out:

great shots ^^ Jetset BKK I find it hard to capture these bougie colours clearly as the colour is so intense. I only have a panasonic DMCLZ1 point n shoot, so no filters or stuff!!

and I have never seen one with 3 flowers in one bract !. Lovely thankyou..

my first desert rose

great shots ^^ Jetset BKK I find it hard to capture these bougie colours clearly as the colour is so intense. I only have a panasonic DMCLZ1 point n shoot, so no filters or stuff!!

and I have never seen one with 3 flowers in one bract !. Lovely thankyou..

my first desert rose

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The sun was really strong yesterday, so the colours of the bracts were indeed intense. When I saw all 3 flowers out I thought it was unusual. It's not as special as finding a four leaf clover but a lot of web sites say often there are only two out with the third closed.

My camera is also point-and-shoot, a Sony Cybershot DSC-WX350. I don't have any filters on the camera but after reducing the size of the original image from, say, 4000 pixels to 900 (using "Compupic" from Photodex), I then use the "sharpen" function as the re-sized image often looks more blurred or with less detail.

I'm still waiting for my desert rose to produce more flowers. It looks very healthy, just no flowers!

hey I found one with FOUR flowers in one bract

First Orchid I've seen this year. f/5.6 ISO 1600 1/60s Olympus EM-1 12-40mm f/2.8lens

Very shady but to increase DOF for the flower part I had to go for smaller aperture and high ISO to keep the shutter speed happy.

hey I found one with FOUR flowers in one bract

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I'm still trying to work out if you "fiddled" that!

I'll go up the mountain tomorrow and see if I can "find" a five.

(Where's my copy of Photoshop... )

(I remember getting 2 three-leaf clovers, cutting off one leaf from each and sticking them together to show my mum a four-leaf clover! )

Jetset BKK I was as surprised as you.. I have looked every day among my many bougies and have yet to find a complete three flowering bract let alone a fourey !!

I must admit I was so surprised i picked it off the bush here it is insitue

Flowers shot .......or cock and bull? (cosmos)

Or perhaps flowers or umbrella ?

Finally got out and about this morning, these were some flowers along one of the Soi's...

a little further on.... a row of sunflowers looking nice against the wall....

a little further on.... a row of sunflowers looking nice against the wall....

Amazing how they planted them so that they all faced the same way...

^^^^^ And leaning too.... I think they follow the sun.... why do I feel like bursting out in song?

and a little further down the same street...more cosmos

Bougie....

^^makes me feel happy..thankyou SJ

I love how the different colours/cuttings are spliced together to create a little magic and these bougies make such good bonsai.. not like some "triffids" !!

.mmm

and there is a very Aussie plant right in the middle.. loverley.. and did you put that sculpture there?

More sunflowers!

Angels Trumpet!

^^^ Careful with them jimmy they are poisonous, it can be synthesized into a more powerful form but I want go into that here

heres a quick wiki

All parts of Brugmansia are potentially poisonous, with the seeds and leaves being especially dangerous.^[19][23]Brugmansia are rich in Scopolamine (hyoscine), hyoscyamine, and several other tropane alkaloids.^[24] Effects of ingestion can include paralysis of smooth muscles, confusion, tachycardia, dry mouth, diarrhea, migraine headaches, visual and auditory hallucinations, mydriasis, rapid onset cycloplegia, and death.^[25][26][27]

The hallucinogenic effects of Brugmansia were described in the journal Pathology as "terrifying rather than pleasurable".^[28] The author Christina Pratt, in An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, says that "Brugmansia induces a powerful trance with violent and unpleasant effects, sickening aftereffects, and at times temporary insanity".^[19] These hallucinations are often characterized by complete loss of awareness that one is hallucinating, disconnection from reality, and amnesia of the episode, such as one example reported in Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience of a young man who amputated his own penis and tongue after drinking only 1 cup of Brugmansia tea.^[29] The Swiss naturalist and explorer Johann von Tschudi described the effects of Brugmansia ingestion on one individual in Peru:

Soon after drinking the Tonga, the man fell into a dull brooding, he stared vacantly at the ground, his mouth was closed firmly, almost convulsively and his nostrils were flared. Cold sweat covered his forehead. He was deathly pale. The jugular veins on his throat were swollen as large as a finger and he was wheezing as his chest rose and sank slowly. His arms hung down stiffly by his body. Then his eyes misted over and filled with huge tears and his lips twitched convulsively for a brief moment. His carotids were visibly beating, his respiration increased and his extremities twitched and shuddered of their own accord. This condition would have lasted about a quarter of an hour, then all these actions increased in intensity. His eyes were now dry but had become bright red and rolled about wildly in their sockets and all his facial muscles were horribly distorted. A thick white foam leaked out between his half open lips. The pulses on his forehead and throat were beating too fast to be counted. His breathing was short, extraordinarily fast and did not seem to lift the chest, which was visibly fibrillating. A mass of sticky sweat covered his whole body which continued to be shaken by the most dreadful convulsions. His limbs were hideously contorted. He alternated between murmuring quietly and incomprehensibly and uttering loud, heart-rending shrieks, howling dully and moaning and groaning.

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Some municipalities prohibit the purchase, sale, or cultivation of Brugmansia plants.^[2][30]

In 1994, 112 teenagers were admitted to hospitals from ingesting Brugmansia in Florida alone.^[31] The concentrations of alkaloids in all parts of the plant differ markedly. They even vary with the seasons and the level of hydration, so it is nearly impossible to determine a safe level of alkaloid exposure.^[25]

^^^ Careful with them jimmy they are poisonous, it can be synthesized into a more powerful form but I want go into that here

heres a quick wiki

All parts of Brugmansia are potentially poisonous, with the seeds and leaves being especially dangerous.^[19][23]Brugmansia are rich in Scopolamine (hyoscine), hyoscyamine, and several other tropane alkaloids.^[24] Effects of ingestion can include paralysis of smooth muscles, confusion, tachycardia, dry mouth, diarrhea, migraine headaches, visual and auditory hallucinations, mydriasis, rapid onset cycloplegia, and death.^[25][26][27]

The hallucinogenic effects of Brugmansia were described in the journal Pathology as "terrifying rather than pleasurable".^[28] The author Christina Pratt, in An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, says that "Brugmansia induces a powerful trance with violent and unpleasant effects, sickening aftereffects, and at times temporary insanity".^[19] These hallucinations are often characterized by complete loss of awareness that one is hallucinating, disconnection from reality, and amnesia of the episode, such as one example reported in Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience of a young man who amputated his own penis and tongue after drinking only 1 cup of Brugmansia tea.^[29] The Swiss naturalist and explorer Johann von Tschudi described the effects of Brugmansia ingestion on one individual in Peru:

Soon after drinking the Tonga, the man fell into a dull brooding, he stared vacantly at the ground, his mouth was closed firmly, almost convulsively and his nostrils were flared. Cold sweat covered his forehead. He was deathly pale. The jugular veins on his throat were swollen as large as a finger and he was wheezing as his chest rose and sank slowly. His arms hung down stiffly by his body. Then his eyes misted over and filled with huge tears and his lips twitched convulsively for a brief moment. His carotids were visibly beating, his respiration increased and his extremities twitched and shuddered of their own accord. This condition would have lasted about a quarter of an hour, then all these actions increased in intensity. His eyes were now dry but had become bright red and rolled about wildly in their sockets and all his facial muscles were horribly distorted. A thick white foam leaked out between his half open lips. The pulses on his forehead and throat were beating too fast to be counted. His breathing was short, extraordinarily fast and did not seem to lift the chest, which was visibly fibrillating. A mass of sticky sweat covered his whole body which continued to be shaken by the most dreadful convulsions. His limbs were hideously contorted. He alternated between murmuring quietly and incomprehensibly and uttering loud, heart-rending shrieks, howling dully and moaning and groaning.

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Some municipalities prohibit the purchase, sale, or cultivation of Brugmansia plants.^[2][30]

In 1994, 112 teenagers were admitted to hospitals from ingesting Brugmansia in Florida alone.^[31] The concentrations of alkaloids in all parts of the plant differ markedly. They even vary with the seasons and the level of hydration, so it is nearly impossible to determine a safe level of alkaloid exposure.^[25]

yes I know that they are poisonous, ... so are Poinsettias, Caladiums, Laburnum and many other plants!

Caladium, several different kinds... all parts of the plant is poisonous.... and commonly seen around Thailand

Opps ... It does not have a flower in the image .....

That's done.....