Our First Dahlia

We have recently shifted into our new house and the first priority of my wife was to set up our little garden with ornamental plants and flowers. We bought some of our favourites, including the double dahlia. Beside marigold what we planted and have since grown, a few days before our red and pink double dahlia started to come out of their sprouts. Today when almost fully grown and in bloom, I decided to take a shot to preserve our first dahlia flowers. This is the pink one, majestic and beautiful.

For those who love flowers, I add here that dahlia is named after Swedish 18th-century botanist Anders Dahl. In German the dahlia was known during most of the 19th century as Georgia, being named after the naturalist Johann Gottlieb Georgi of St. Petersburg, Russia.

There are some three dozen species of dahlia, of these hybrid dahlia is usually grown as garden ornamental plant.

Since dahlia has been our favourite flower, it has always been part of our garden wherever we have been. Photographs of some of our dahlia can be seen at Jalalspages (Flickr). Links to a few best shots are as under:

Macro | Flora | Dahlia

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Sun Spots

I have seen photos of sun spots many a times on the internet and magazines and always wanted to shoot these myself. Setting sun my otherwise weakness, I usually sit on my terrace and shoot as many photos as possible, but never the sun spots. However, a few days back, I found the sun quite dark orange and started taking shots hoping to finds some spots. I strained my Sony DSC H2 camera to its maximum optical zooms at tele-lens mode (although I do not have a tele converter). And wow!! This time I was lucky. I found two tiny spots as shown above.

Sunspots appear temporarily on the surface of the sun as burst of very high energy, reaching temperatures in the range of 2,727–4,227 °C. Since the sun itself is very bright, these could only be viewed on a fading sun, as I did. Sunspots expand and contract as they move across the surface of the Sun and can be as large as 80,000 kilometers (49,710 mi) in diameter, making the larger ones visible from Earth. They may also travel at speeds up to 100 mph across the suns photosphere.

Photo: Jalalspages (Flickr)

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Mustangs

I first met them in Lahore Defence, beautifully placed on the road coming from the Cavalry and meeting the road leading to Lahore Defence and Walton. The light and shade made them look very impressive.

I found them again in front of Military Hospital (MH) Rawalpindi. They stood frozen in the ornamental lights near their hooves – making them look like ghosts. I could not resist taking a shot (and this composition of mine was selected on Explore) and posted it to my Flickr account (Jalalspages). 

Such monuments while add to the beauty of the cities, speak volumes of those with aesthetics who make them. 

And let me add, if we are impressed with these statues, do we ever ponder over the beautiful nature laid out for us so beautifully by the Nature? We need to explore nature more by going out, seeing and appreciating the One who created all this – only for us

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Let me fly you in a Mercedez

Stretch your imagination to its wildest limits - you will be surprised at your abilities

Photo courtesy : Jalalspages

 

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