Development of World Car: July 2007

SCANNING FLOWERS

Bauhinea variegata (cow’s paw )

Stapelia gigantea (Carrion Flower)

Daylily

Little Daisy

Red Ibiscus

Red Ibiscus and Bauhinea variegata (cow’s paw)

I made this same post at January 22, 2006 and I had many comments. So I want to share with you again this post.

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I learn how to scanning flowers seeing the beautiful works of Katinka Matson, an amazing artist of New York. On her site, she talks about her artistic's process: "I have experimented with a non-photographic technique for creating images by utilizing input through the flatbed CCD scanner. No camera or lenses are used. The process involves scanning flowers and other natural objects on an open-top scanner from underneath the objects with a slo-moving sensor. This technique allows for unusual opportunities to explore new ideas involving light, time, and rhythm”.

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How scanning flowers: First of all you put the flower over the scanner's glass. The flower must be face down. Next you arrange the flower as you like it. Then cover the flower gently with a black fabric, very dense, (all the scanner's superficies). Don't shut the scanner's cover, if you did that, you will crumple the flowers. Then turn on the scanner. Next you must save the photo in some file you choose. The interesting in this process is the unexpected. We don't know exactly how the flower's image will show up. It's an amazing surprise!

Como escanear flores: Em primeiro lugar coloque as flores ou folhas sobre o vidro do scanner, viradas para baixo. Arranje as flores como quiser. Agora cubra com cuidado as flores com um tecido escuro e grosso (eu usei veludo preto). Não feche a tampa do scanner para não amassar as flores. Ligue o scanner e escaneie as flores. Salve a foto numa pasta. O interessante deste processo é o inesperado. Você não sabe bem como será o resultado. Mas certamente você terá uma incrível surpresa!

Photos and scanning flowers by Sonia A. Mascaro

See those flowers "live" before I scanned them on Only Photos

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MY HOUSE AND IT'S VIEW

This beautiful tree in my garden is a native tree from Brazil, named Canafístula or Chuva-de-Ouro (means in English "Rain of Gold"). The Cassia ferruginea, from the family Leguminosae-Caesalpinoideae, bears the most flagrant flowers, which are arranged in hanging racemes. The flowers appear in October, November and December.

View to the back of the house. This tree with red fruits is a Pitanga Tree, in Portuguese, Pitangueira. (Click on green link to go to other page)

View to my house

View to the Dam from the top of my house’s water reservoir.

Photos taken by my husband and by myself

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NICE WEATHER

Atualização para participar da Tertúlia Virtual, cujo tema é "O Tempo".

Today I search in my archives photos taken from the same place and similar perspective than those of the previous post. But at this time I choose images to transmit you all pleasant emotions. A sunny, warm and nice weather.

Photos taken by Carlos and Sonia Mascaro

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BAD WEATHER

Atualização para participar da Tertúlia Virtual cujo tema é "O Tempo".

Photo by Sonia A. Mascaro

Photo by Carlos A. Mascaro

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PINK TRUMPET (TABEBUIA PENTAPHYLLA) - IPÊ-ROSA

This gorgeous tree beside my house is the "Ipê Rosa" (Tabebuia pentaphylla), in English known as Pink tabebuia, Pink tecoma, Pink trumpet, Pink poui and Rosy trumpet-tree. We can see Tabebuia flowers profusely in winter and they can be seen in several places surrounds my neighborhood and also in quite a few places in the country. Leaves are dropped March through June. The tree draws attention because of its profuse flowering and the falling blooms make a dense carpet below. Tabebuia consists of about 20 species and occurs in practically every Latin American country. June and July are the months of the magnificent pink tubular flowers. (See another species of Tabebuia)

O Ipê rosa (Tabebuia pentaphylla) é o primeiro dos Ipês a florir no ano, inicia a floração em Junho, mas ainda pode ser encontrado com flores até Setembro. Esta espécie se confunde bastante com outras espécies, como a Tabebuia impetiginosa e a Tabebuia heptaphylla. (Veja outras espécies de Tabebuia)