Pink Perfection Camellias. What a perfect name for this lovely flower.
It’s that time of year!
These camellias are on bushes that my Dad rescued from a green house back in the 1950’s. He worked at a green house that experimented with selling camellias, but found that they bruise too easily to be viable as a product. Dad brought some of the rejects home and planted them. More than sixty years later they still are healthy and blooming.
Even though they aren’t able to be marketed they are absolutely beautiful. The delicate color and the geometry of the soft petals are certainly as beautiful, of not more so, than anything you can pick up at your local Safeway. I am drawn to these delicate beauties. Maybe because they bloom when everything else is dormant.
A brief spell of sunshine let me capture them when we were visiting this week.
For the Whatsoever is Lovely blog challenge, and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
I used Raw Therapee for basic edits and raw conversion, Topaz Studio 2 to apply a painterly effect and some textures, and the GIMP to resize and add a vignette and watermark. I used the worflow described in: Photo processing workflow: preparing photos to use on the web using open-source software.
