Re: [Aroid-l] Blue Anthuriums

From: Corey W <cewickliffe at gmail.com> on 2011.11.16 at 21:08:27(22292) I can also speak for Steve's Phalaenopsis photos, as I walked into Home Depot last week to see the same blue orchids. I should go back at see if I can take a pic with my phone. They didn't have the purple/red ones there, instead sitting them next to more typical Phal mass market varieties. As for how "real" they are, it's just a real life "photoshop" effort. When I originally saw the glitter covered dyed poinsettias I thought they were fake plants until I touched their leaves :( I agree with Steve - funnier if it wasn't so sad. Corey HTML +More On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Steve Marak wrote: Hermine, I can't vouch for any other photos, but the ones I sent to the list of the Phalaenopsis orchids I took myself, and they are absolutely untouched by Photoshop or any other editing tool, except to crop them down to reduce the size. How appropriate your last comment is ... years ago I worked for a Major Retailer, and they had a "sample store" where employees could buy merchandise samples of all sorts. One day a friend and I walked up to see a buying frenzy - people carrying out large (5 gallon, at least) pots of what looked to me exactly like a typical big box store Spathiphyllum, except that the spathes were bright red! People were buying two or three of them at a time, exclaiming about how beautiful and unusual they were. When I got closer, I could see that the spathes had in fact been spray painted red. It would be funnier if it weren't sad. Steve On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, hermine wrote: > At 09:28 PM 11/14/2011, you wrote: > > >Jude - I don't doubt that there might be some real blues (or getting > >close to it!) given some of the deep purples I've seen the varieties > >have, but I think if you saw them in person you'd realize these were > >not giving some orchid breeder out there the hybridizer happy dance. > >It looks off, like the flowers were painted with watercolor or > >something! It was more glaring due to the "natural" untreated > >hybrids right next to them. > > > chemicals aside, I SMELL MENDACITY in the form of PHOTOSHOP! I never > seed that colour blue on a flower in my entire life of peering at > blue flowers, especially among flowers where blue is notably absent like roses. > > I got an idea. why do not the people just get spray cans and make the > flowers whatever they like. > > hermine > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > -- Steve Marak -- samarak@gizmoworks.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --bcaec5014dc158f25c04b1e08153-- --==============R86164209915528311==

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