Ilex aquifolium 'Silver Queen' European Holly Flower
Description
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- Ilex aquifolium 'Silver Queen' European Holly Flower
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Flower and buds of Ilex aquifolium 'Silver Queen' holly cultivar. This cultivar, despite its name, is actually male, and so has no berries. It is suitable for hedging, and with its varigated leaves also makes a good shrub.
Description from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_aquifolium):
Ilex aquifolium (Holly, or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmass Holly or Mexican Holly) is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia.
It is an evergreen tree growing to 10-25 m tall and 40-80 cm (rarely 1 m or more) trunk diameter, with smooth grey bark. The leaves are 5-12 cm long and 2-6 cm broad, variable in shape; on young plants and low branches, with three to five sharp spines on each side, pointing alternately upward and downward; on higher branches of older trees with few or no spines except for the leaf tip, often entire.
The flowers are dioecious, white, four-lobed, and pollinated by bees.
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- Biota
- Life
- Vitae
- Eukaryota
- Plantae
- Plants
- Magnoliophyta
- Flowering Plants
- Angiosperms
- Magnoliopsida
- Dicotyledons
- Ilex aquifolium 'Silver Queen'
- Aquifoliales
- Aquifoliaceae
- Holly
- Ilex
- Ilex aquifolium
- European Holly
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- Holly flower and buds.psd
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- 3727px x 2572px
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- Market Harborough
- Province/State:
- Leicestershire
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- United Kingdom
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- Europe
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- Copyrighted
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- Yes
- Available for Commercial Use:
- Yes
- Copyright Notice:
- © 2010 Dave Kennard
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- Canon EOS 450D
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- Canon MP-E 65mm F2.8 1-5x Macro
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- Benro C-428 Tripod
Manfrotto 410 Junior Geared Head
4 Way Macro Focusing Rail
Kirk QRC-4
Wimberley Plamp to hold plant in position
Canon MT-24EX Macro Twin flash with home-made diffusers
24 shots
Post Processing
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- Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Adobe Camera RAW
- CombineZP
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CR2s converted in ACR
Images focus stacked in CombineZP
Do Stack method output from CombineZP blended with bit of original images in PS CS4
Some cloning in PS CS4 to clean up artifacts
Curves adjustment in PS CS4 to increase contrast