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Bad Ems, Germany
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Title
Under The Lotus Leaves
Artist
Birgit Moldenhauer
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Under the Lotus Leaves is a photograph of a lotus blossom hidden under big lotus leaves. The photo was taken in Nanjing, China at the Xuan Wu Lake!
To the Chinese, the lotus is the most important of all cultivated flowers, grown for both, its beauty and its usefulness. It has large blossoms, tinted pink, creamy white, or yellow, growing on stalks six or seven feet high, appearing from the center of very broad leaves.
Every part of this plant has its special use. The fruits and leaves are used as food, the dried yellow stamens are used as an astringent, and the seeds can be used as medicine or eaten as a dessert. The kernels are boiled in soup, roasted, or eaten raw, while the stems are sliced and boiled. The leaves can be taken medicinally or used dried to wrap food.
The lotus is also known as a symbol of purity and perfection, growing out of the mud into a state of blossoming beauty and fruitfulness. The flowers are open for a mere three days, then petal by petal they disintegrate, leaving the green seed head exposed.
It is not only a symbol important to Buddhism, that the lotus is recognized, but also as an emblem of one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism – the other main Chinese religion.
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May 9th, 2016
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Port Orange, FL - United States
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 Views on One Image Group's Special Features Nominations For Promotion #24 . Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views on One Image Group....L/F/Tw
Budapest, BP - Hungary
Nominating this fabulous capture for a special feature on the 1000 view group TP
Port Orange, FL - United States
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Southampton, PA - United States
Congratulations on being chosen as the Artist Of The Week in the Lady Photographers And Artists group! L/F
Niceville, Fl - United States
Congratulations on your top finish in the Green Leaf Closeup contest! voted
Perth, We - Australia
A wonderful emerald green photo-painting ! An almost strange and mysterious tropical world. Excellent Art ! :-)
Grants Pass, OR - United States
How happy this is ! I love how you have to go into the picture to find the bloom. Nicely done Birgit.
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