Amazonian Flower

[adcolon]

University of Puerto Rico's Botanical Gardens, Couroupita guianensis, Lecythidaceae, the flower of a tree found in the Amazon. It looks like a sea anemone. Canon 30D, Canon 100-400mm. 580X flash. ISO 320, f5.5 at !/400 sec.

[Mike Moats]

Hey adcolon, very cool and interesting subject. Looks like a tough surrounding to get a clean BG, I would have liked to seen a little more light on the flower. Did you get any close-ups of the center?

[Rene Quenneville]

Neat subject. Very unusual. The flower seems to be underexposed vs the background. What was your metering mode? Did you use the flash mounted off camera?

[Robert O'Toole]

Interesting subject once again AD, Would like to see a close up of just the flower center also.

Robert

[Ed Vatza]

Interesting flower. I like the flower itself as well as the surrounding buds and such. It is the distant background that looks so busy and distracts for me.

[adcolon]

The flower was high up in a big tree. That's the best I could do.......just thought it is very unusual and it similarity to a sea anemone is striking.

[adcolon]

I think I used center weighted metering and a 580X Canon Flash on the camera with a Better Beamer. The tree was inside a heavy canopy of diverse trees.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi adcolon,
I have seen this flower and you are correct it it grows mostly up high. I hope you have another opportunity to try this again with some lower blooms.