A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
454: Yellow flower with raindrops
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© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2013, 2017
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A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
437: Purple orchid in detail
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© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
419: Butterfly on yellow flower
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© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2013.
Part 63:
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Blue flower
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Downtown by sunset
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Blue flower
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Downtown by sunset
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2013, 2017
A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2013.
Part 62:
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Black and yellow caterpillar
Belo Horizonte (MG) – African blue lily
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Black and yellow caterpillar
Belo Horizonte (MG) – African blue lily
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2013, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
407: Banana plant flower
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© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
400: Red rose
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© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
391: Anthurium flower
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© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
384: Pink roses
When you live in the megacity of Rio de Janeiro, it is really a relief to be in a small, neighboring city for some hours. You will fully enjoy the tranquility of few people and few cars in the streets, the ability to walk around without the chance being hit by fellow pedestrians or cars. When I was in Petrópolis, I walked there a lot, also along the canals of Avenida Koeller, Rua da Imperatriz, and Rua do Imperador. You can find many interesting big houses, constructed during the imperial era, along theses canals. Along another canal, you can visit a brewery and taste a fresh beer. It was along one of these canals that I found three beautiful, bright pink roses, as seen in the photograph.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
382: Bromeliad
During my stay in Belo Horizonte, I must have visited the Botanical Garden more than ten times. This botanical garden is part of the local ZOO, and is located at the margin of Lake Pampulha. Although this garden is not as big as its counterpart in Rio de Janeiro, the garden hosts an interesting collection of a broad variety of plants and flowers. During each visit, I took dozens of photographs of the plants and flowers in various shapes and hues. When I visited the greenhouses, orchids and bromeliads attracted my attention. There are over 3400 bromeliad species, and the most familiar specie is the delicious pineapple. They are able to store water at their leaf bases. Bromeliads are mainly found in the American tropics and may host bright colorful flowers, like the red flower in this photograph.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2014.
Part 30:
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Lioness at ZOO
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Orange cloud
Belo Horizonte (MG) – White flowers
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Lioness at ZOO
Belo Horizonte (MG) – Orange cloud
Belo Horizonte (MG) – White flowers
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2014, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
372: Blue lilies
Blue lilies are quite common in Brazilian parks and gardens, but they are not native Brazilian plants. These lilies are called Agapanthus praecox, or African lily, or Lily of the Nile. However, they are also not native along the margins of the Nile River; their origin is in the far south of the African continent, in Natal and in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The lily now has been naturalized in various countries across the world, like the United Kingdom, Mexico, New Zealand, Ethiopia, and Costa Rica. The lily has about ten long, leathery leaves and may reach up to one meter. They usually flower between December and February. The two blue lilies in the photograph were found in the campus of the Federal University, near the Economic Sciences Faculty. The lilies are also found along the nearby Pampulha Lake.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
346: White calla lily
This beautiful, creamy white calla lily was found in Parque Municipal in Belo Horizonte. These lilies are originally from Southern Africa, and are very popular among florists. They are strong plants with arrow-shaped leaves and a trumpet-shaped flower. By far the most well-known are the creamy white flowers, but there are also orange, green, yellow, pink, purple, light blue and dark red variants. The creamy white flowers are often associated with wedding bouquets and religious celebrations, symbolizing purity, rebirth and hope.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2011, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
345: Palm tree flowers
Palm trees are associated with subtropical and tropical areas. Many dream of being in tropical paradises with white beaches and swaying palms. In Brazil, I visited a number of these beach paradises, where vast palm tree fields lay just behind the white beaches, such as in Alagoas, Pernambuco and Paraíba. There are nearly three hundred different palm trees in Brazil, of which just over one hundred are endemic. The palm trees are not only located along the beaches, but virtually at every imaginable location in the country. As mentioned along the beaches, but also along rivers and streams, in the jungles, in the woods, in the arid grasslands, in the mountains. You will also find many palm trees in the cities, like the palm tree blossom on the photo was found in the Botanical Garden in Belo Horizonte.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2011, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
343: Heliconia plant
Heliconia plants are quite common in Brazil, especially in ornamental gardens and urban parks. This is how I met this heliconia plant at the Parque Municipal (urban park) in Belo Horizonte. The plant is family of the banana, and is named after the Helicon mountain (where the muses lived) in Greek mythology. The large, yellow and red, hanging bracts hide the flowers, which are very popular among the hummingbirds. Because of the difficult accessibility of the flowers, the plant is very dependent on these hummingbirds for the pollination. The plant also stores water and is loved in this way by a number of insects, including mosquitoes. As the Helicon mountain offered much inspiration to poets, this colorful heliconia plant offered me inspiration for this photo.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2011, 2017
A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2014.
Part 14:
Porto Alegre (RS) – Light blue flower
Gramado (RS) – Pink flower
Gramado (RS) – Red flower
Porto Alegre (RS) – Light blue flower
Gramado (RS) – Pink flower
Gramado (RS) – Red flower
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2014, 2017
A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2014.
Part 13:
Porto Alegre (RS) – Pink flower
Porto Alegre (RS) – Striated heron
Porto Alegre (RS) – Striated heron
Porto Alegre (RS) – Pink flower
Porto Alegre (RS) – Striated heron
Porto Alegre (RS) – Striated heron
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2014, 2017
A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2014.
Part 12:
Porto Alegre (RS) – Raindrops on a flower
Porto Alegre (RS)- Purple flowers
Porto Alegre (RS)- Yellow flower
Porto Alegre (RS) – Raindrops on a flower
Porto Alegre (RS) – Purple flowers
Porto Alegre (RS) – Yellow flower
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2014, 2017
A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2012.
Part 24:
Serra do Cipó (MG) – Yellow spot on a white flower
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (ES) – Itapemirim River
Serra do Cipó (MG) – Yellow spot on a white flower
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (ES) – Itapemirim River
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
A selection of photographs taken in Brazil in 2012.
Part 23:
Serra do Cipó (MG) – Red flower and shadow
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (ES) – The city and Itapemirim River
Serra do Cipó (MG) – Red flower and shadow
Cachoeiro de Itapemirim (ES) – The city and Itapemirim River
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 2012, 2017
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