My Touch Of Holland 2
by Nick Boren
Title
My Touch Of Holland 2
Artist
Nick Boren
Medium
Photograph - Digital Image
Description
One of my favorite landscape images. Can't wait to visit these beautiful fields once more.
From Wikipedia:
ulips (Tulipa) are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the lily family, Liliaceae, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble by those who discovered it. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring.
Originally growing wild in the valleys of the Tian Shan Mountains, tulips were cultivated in Constantinople as early as 1055. By the 15th century, tulips were among the most prized flowers; becoming the symbol of the Ottomans.[2] While tulips had probably been cultivated in Persia from the tenth century, they did not come to the attention of the West until the sixteenth century, when Western diplomats to the Ottoman court observed and reported on them. They were rapidly introduced into Europe and became a frenzied commodity during Tulip mania. Tulips were frequently depicted in Dutch Golden Age paintings, and have become associated with the Netherlands, the major producer for world markets, ever since. In the seventeenth century Netherlands, during the time of the Tulip mania, an infection of tulip bulbs by the tulip breaking virus created variegated patterns in the tulip flowers that were much admired and valued. While truly broken tulips do not exist anymore, the closest available specimens today are part of the group known as the Rembrandts – so named because Rembrandt painted some of the most admired breaks of his time.[3]
Breeding programs have produced thousands of hybrid and cultivars in addition to the original species (known in horticulture as botanical tulips). They are popular throughout the world, both as ornamental garden plants and as cut flowers.
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Kay Brewer 3 Days Ago
Beautiful! Congratulations on your Special Feature in the Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer group! l/f
Donna Kennedy 3 Days Ago
Beautiful Nick! Congratulations on your special Feature of the Week in Visions of Spring-Glances of Summer!...L/F
Kathleen Codinha 3 Days Ago
Congratulations on your Home Page Feature in Visions of Spring! I love this perspective. - you got down low enough with the correct angle to hide the space between the windmill and the fields. Well done!
Dora Sofia Caputo 3 Days Ago
Congratulations, Nick! Happy to tell you that your amazing capture of a beautiful field of lovely tulips has been selected as a Special Feature of the Week and is being featured on the Homepage of the Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer Group. Thank you for being part of this Group and for sharing your outstanding artwork with us. F
Nick Boren replied:
Thank you so much Dora, for the comment and for featuring my Oregon tulip field image on the Homepage of your Visions of Spring - Graces of Summer group. I appreciate it very much!
Gary F Richards
Spectacular My Touch of Holland 2 composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! F/L voted
Morris Finkelstein
Congratulations on your stunning artwork's selection as a Special Features of the Week in the Visions Of Spring - Glances Of Summer group! F/L
Kay Brewer
Congratulations on your beautiful work's selection as a Special Features of the Week in the Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer group!
Donna Kennedy
Nick, Congratulations on your Feature of the Week in Visions of Spring-Glances of Summer!...L/F
Dora Sofia Caputo
Congratulations, Nick! Happy to tell you that your amazingly beautiful capture of a lovely field of colorful Tulips, has been selected as a Special Feature of the Week, and is being displayed on the Homepage of the Visions of Spring - Glances of Summer Group. Thank you for being part of this Group and for sharing your outstanding artwork with us. F
Nick Boren replied:
Thank you so much Dora, for commenting on my Oregon tulip landscape, and for featuring it on your Homepage of the Visions of Spring and Glances of Summer Group. I very much appreciate it!
Nirav Shah
Beautiful scene...I love the composition here with the vibrant colours of the natural and man-made world! Good use of lines too :) l/f
Gary F Richards
Outstanding My Touch of Holland Tulips composition, lighting, shading, lovely color and artwork! F/L voted
Joseph Schofield
Congratulations! I have chosen to feature this fine image on the homepage of Pacific Northwest Canadian Rockies and Alaska. Please archive it on the 2023 features and thank you thread.