Wisteria Elegance
by Darren Fisher
Title
Wisteria Elegance
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful display of Wisteria with a added bonus of a humming bird enjoying the blooms. I love the elegance of the Wisteria in this piece along with the color combination and lighting. I have used effects along with textures to create a painting of the photo.
Wisteria (also spelled Wistaria or Wysteria) is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing vines native to the Eastern United States and to China, Korea, and Japan. Some species are popular ornamental plants, especially in China and Japan. An aquatic flowering plant with the common name wisteria or 'water wisteria' is in fact Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae.
The adult male has a white breast, rufous face, upperparts, flanks and tail and an iridescent orange-red throat patch or gorget. Some males have some green on back and/or crown. The female has green upperparts with some white, some iridescent orange feathers in the center of the throat, and a dark tail with white tips and rufous base.
The female is slightly larger than the male. Females and the rare green-backed males are extremely difficult to differentiate from Allen's hummingbird. This is a typical-sized hummingbird, being a very small bird. It weighs 2�5 g (0.071�0.176 oz), measures 7�9 cm (2.8�3.5 in) long and spans 11 cm (4.3 in) across the wings.[3]
They feed on nectar from flowers using a long extendible tongue or catch insects on the wing. These birds require frequent feeding while active during the day and become [torpor|torpid] at night to conserve energy. Because of their small size, they are vulnerable to insect-eating birds and animals.
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March 3rd, 2015
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Comments (22)
Marianne Campolongo
What a lovely image - beautiful capture and love the processing - beautifully done!
Betsy Zimmerli
Well done, Darren. Spring is miraculous, especially to those of us here in New England.