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Finca life


Finca life
Photo Information
Copyright: Alexander Hofmann (AlexTalent) (13)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-06-13
Categories: Nature
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 3200
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/235 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-12-29 4:58
Viewed: 822
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This is a photo of a Bougainvillea.
In the background you can see a piece of our beautiful Finca.

Hope you like it, Alex

-----------------Info Bougainvillea-------------------

Bougainvillea is a genus of flowering plants native to the tropical and subtropical regions of South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southern Argentina (Chubut Province). Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. The name comes from Louis Antoine de Bougainville, an admiral in the French Navy who discovered the plant in Brazil in 1768.

They are thorny, woody, vines growing anywhere from 1-12 meters tall, scrambling over other plants with their hooked thorns. They are evergreen where rainfall occurs all year, or deciduous if there is a dry season. The leaves are alternate, simple ovate-acuminate, 4-13 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. The actual flower of the plant is small and generally white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by three or six bracts with the bright colors associated with the plant, including pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow. Bougainvillea glabra is sometimes referred to as "paper flower" because the bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene.
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good pic. i liked the arquitecture of the zone, reminds me algarve and some small villages in the south of portugal. congratulation. beautifull flowers

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  • eugen Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 52 W: 6 N: 66] (488)
  • [2007-01-01 14:37]

Hi Alex,
hi hope you had a nice New Year Time, you should have watched the London Eye by night ... fireworks higher than 200m, it was really amazing.
Anyway, about your shot, it is very nice indeed, nice colours and good sharpness, altough I wonder if you used the right POV and if it is probably too overexposed ...
Have you tried Picasa? It is a really good program to edit your photos in a fairly simple way and you can download it for free (www. picasa.com)
Otherwise, enjoy your last days of holiday and have a good start into your new year! :D

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