Spring Fling tall view
by Byron Varvarigos
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Spring Fling tall view
Artist
Byron Varvarigos
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Photograph - Photography
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A bright and cheerful array of Springtime peony tulips and daffodils, pearl hydrangea petals at bottom left. Tulips have a history as colorful as their petals. A Central Asian wildflower, they began being cultivated over a thousand years ago. The flowers were sometimes worn by Turks in their turbans, and when Western Europeans became interested in them in the 17th Century, they were named by them for the Persian-Turkish name for turban, which came out spelled in the Latin alphabet as "tulip". A few bulbs were sent to Holland, where they began to be hybridized by botanists and became wildly popular as a garden flower. So much so that some rare bulbs were as expensive as a house! A phenomenon called "tulipmania" overcame the country, and traders made fortunes selling the bulbs. After a year or so, it was realized that tulip bulbs were not as rare as thought previously, and the tulip "bubble" burst, leading to a spectacle resembling the 1929 stock market crash! Fortunately the Dutch government introduced regulations, the economy stabilized, and now the world can buy these beautiful flowers in many dozens of varieties at very reasonable prices!
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March 23rd, 2013
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Betty LaRue
Oh, wow, Byron! Stunning, stunning, stunning! Your flowers always seem to produce their own light! v/f
Byron Varvarigos replied:
What a wonderful compliment, Betty, thanks so much! I like to shoot with backlight, so in a sense they do provide their own light! : )
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