Category: Humour Photography
Posted: March 23, 2025



Daylight Saving Time _ Flower Dilemma

What Happened to Your Petals?

by helvi2 Interested in this? Contact The Artist

This image was inspired by MKFlood's Funny Flowers. I've always loved the humor Mark creates when he does these comical characters. When I found a photograph I took of Gerbera blooms with two flowers that had top-notches growing out of the center, straight up, I thought I'd post it just as it was. ...( Gerberas have a knack of doing 2 strange things ... 1) Trying to create a twin from the same flower head ... 2) growing petals straight up from the center of the flower)....After I did my usual post work on it, the thought of turning it into a Funny Flower crossed my mind. I couldn't get Mark's Funny Flowers out of my head! LOL I so hope you enjoy what you see! Thank you so much for stopping by!
Sending a BIG THANK YOU to Mark for the wonderful inspiration! :o) Helvi
......The image I created also inspired a poem to go with it, it's called ....."The Spin of Spring"_ A Flower's Dilemma.....



.....When Daylight Saving comes around.....

My head begins to spin.....

I haven't got a clue on earth.....

What time zone I am in?.....



The warming earth says I should sprout.....

Become a lovely flower .....

But timings got me so confused.....

Just by that single hour.....



My color queue went out the door.....

My petal count went too.....

What should I do to re-create.....

I haven't got a clue.....



What happens if, what I once was.....

Becomes a strange display.....

A blueprint of what I once was.....

That's clearly gone astray.....




When everything goes into flux.....

Who knows just what you'll see.....

The change of just a hours time.....

Might twirl a spin on thee.....




The tick tock of more sunlight time.....

Disturbs the clock within.....

And footsteps struggle on a course.....

Of where they once had been.....
Post Type: Mixed Media Photography
Mixed Media: Major | Cut out flowers and saved, removed all leaves ,but cut out and saved some, rearranged leaves over flower, Outlined petals and leaves, added shadows, created eyes and mouth for flowers, cut and saved center top-notch of flowers, turned into negative .... Background : Used original background, but blurred, Added radial foil filter, copied background and overlaid..... Used Designer Edges Filter to create pointed edges on overlay saved, copied.. Placed 2nd copy 0f pointed edges behind first copy and blurred.












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