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Water Lily

Posted by Soph (Enghien, Belgium) on 25 July 2007 in Plants & Nature and Portfolio.

What a wonferdul name! In French, we say "nénuphar" and I didn't know the translation in english, so I used the translate-tool of Google.. what a surprise, how poetic the english language can be! If I knew that, I would have post a water lily as first picture.

I took this photo in last September. I bought the camera one month before but it was very hard to use it because it rained all along August. We had a heat wave for July and so, rain and rain and rain in August. This picture is one of my first, I went for a walk in the Enghien-park. It's a very big park with a castel, two big lakes, a little wood, a lot of statues, fountains and a course of golf. I'll surely post other photos from there soon. The story of that park is full of fairies and fantastic creatures...

Something else about Enghien... Belgium is a very little country and we succeeded to cut it in two parts because we have two different languages: French like in France and Dutch like in Holland; We study the both languages at school, from 10 to 18 years old and it's very useful to be bilingual to find a good job. Personnaly, my first language is French and since i'm 18, I don't practice Dutch no more, so I lost a lot of vocabulary. There are so many poetic words in Dutch too... an example ? To say "vocabulary", they say "woordenschat".. litterally, it means "the treasure of words" Wonderful, it isn't? In Belgium, some cities have 2 names, the one in Dutch and the one in French. Enghien is French and his Dutch translation is Edingen...

I start and I finish this post talking about language...

I hope you'll have a great day!

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Comments (29)

stijn from brugge, Belgium

:) lol yeah true we decided to devide it in 2 :p incredible ... i sometimes dont understand why that is such a problem to just supply everything in all cities in both languages that cant be so hard but oh well politicians need somthing to talk about :p

beautifull photo i like how the clouds reflect

25 Jul 2007 1:50am

@stijn: yep stijn, it's a politicy problem, they look so sure that Dutchspeakers and Frenchspeakers can't understand eachothers! There is not only the language to understand eachothers... I studied Dutch till I'm 10 years old and I understand it a little, I guess you studies French at school and we talk together in English... Finally, it's only politicians that don't undertand eachothers... I think that Leterme means the end of the Belgium, i'm sad of it because i'm very patriotic.

Thank you for the comment about the photo, by the way! ;-)

ColNed Pictures from Amersfoort, Netherlands

Excellent shot of simplicity, lovely reflection !!

25 Jul 2007 2:00am

@ColNed Pictures: Thank you! I was very surprised to find that occasion to take a good photo in the park, I was there for a walk, to take landscapes, statues.. and I found that little water lily... Glad you like it!

Dimitrios from ATHENS, Greece

AMAZING ITS LIKE A SKY

25 Jul 2007 2:13am

Soph from Enghien, Belgium

Yep, a sky lily! ;-) Thank you for your comment!

25 Jul 2007 2:15am

ally! from Singapore, Singapore

whoa the water(it is water right?) looks amazing. is it a reflection? (: very interesting. love it.

25 Jul 2007 3:02am

Soph from Enghien, Belgium

Yes, the reflection of the cloud on the water, thank you Ally!

25 Jul 2007 3:16am

stijn from brugge, Belgium

lol its funny really that we speak english :D ... most kids in flanders study french well till they are 18 then it depends on what studies they do after .... i'm sure this country will never break up its insane really i mean its so small all ready how i would get nearly impossible to handle after :D ... i'm not patriotic atall really not for flanders and not for belgium ... it just think its sad that ist so hard to live live next to each other without having this kind of idiotic discussions

25 Jul 2007 3:24am

@stijn: yep, anyway, all policitic discussions are idiot ;-)

badala from Leiria, Portugal

WHAT A REFLECTION!

25 Jul 2007 3:40am

@badala: thank you!

Alfredo J. Martiz J. from Tokyo, Japan

So beautiful the reflection, wonderful photo, it gave me this impressionist feeling, thanks for all the information about the language!

25 Jul 2007 4:44am

MaryB from Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Wonderful reflections in the water, a simple but very beautiful capture. )
Thanks for the information, about the translation tool in google, that will come in most usefull :)

25 Jul 2007 5:40am

our little hood from bruges, Belgium

First of all, I also better talk in English, like always here, because it's an international language and everybody can understand what we are saying then. I think in Belgium it's not only a language problem, but also a 'tax' problem. Now it's the job of the flemish to help you guys out with money, but then again, about a hundred, or more, years ago we had to depend on you (so, the money then came from Wallonie)
Anyway, we are already a very small country, and if we devide again, there will be nothing left... hmm that would be a bummer!
having said that, if that's one of your first pics with the camera, I expect a lot still coming from you, because, that's an awesome image here, great work and reflection Soph!
cheers robin

25 Jul 2007 5:55am

Angry Buddha from Phoenixville, United States

Great reflection broken up perfectly by the lilly.Nice work.

25 Jul 2007 7:09am

Shuva Brata Deb from Hyderabad, India

Very impressive presentation.

25 Jul 2007 7:57am

tetsu from Tokyo, Japan

Wonderful reflection! :-)

25 Jul 2007 8:48am

colin from stockton-on-tees, United Kingdom

Fantastic composition! you have a great eye!!

25 Jul 2007 9:11am

Geoff Hoffman from Chicago, United States

kind of a surreal reflection, I like the abstract parts you can find in it.

25 Jul 2007 9:34am

Saed from Mashhad, Iran

Nice capture.

25 Jul 2007 9:37am

Josh from New York, United States

Its so painterly. I love it.

25 Jul 2007 9:48am

Bob Israel from Brookfield, WI, United States

Very nice, different composition. I really like this one.

25 Jul 2007 10:05am

Evi from Athens, Greece

" Nenuphar" in French, "noufaro" in Greek

Interesting info,lovely reflections!

25 Jul 2007 12:50pm

Soph from Enghien, Belgium

wow! 20 comments! Thank you all for your interest!
"our little hood" I know it's not just a problem of language. language is not a problem, except when leterme says that people from wallonia can't learn dutch... I agree with you but I think that wallonia could be better managed. There is no reason that the flemish part is richer, the flemish part is just better managed. Wallonia is more inside the workman class with iron, steel.... but the money is somewhere, it's just badly used by the politics. I think it could be possible to balance and so, no side would be "imposed" to help the other part, money would have the same value everywhere.. so utopic.... wallonia will lose money with stories like in Charleroi and flemish will become angry to have to pay for the bad wallonians politics... en zo voort...

25 Jul 2007 1:44pm

Laurie from Lincoln, United States

Very Cool! I love the reflection of the clouds-they are so pretty! Good job! =-)

25 Jul 2007 3:27pm

vasa from United States

great abstract

25 Jul 2007 6:41pm

Hercules from Jacksonville, United States

Thanks for dropping by. This image was capture right , it has a feel of floating on clouds and at the same time on water - Great image !
PS. How does it look in print ?

25 Jul 2007 9:58pm

Morris J. Chisholm from Thunder Bay - Land of the Sleeping Giant, Canada

Beautiful capture,how often have I seen this image glide by me in my canoe? Hundreds of times just listening to the wind in the tall grass that cover the river banks and the sound of my paddle as I push the canoe forward. Thank you.

25 Jul 2007 10:12pm

Phil from Therwil, Switzerland

Really nice shot!
Nice how you managed to get the right exposure - first though the leave is a bit overexposed, but if you would have reduced the ligh, i guess you would have lost the contrast in the lower right edge.

26 Jul 2007 4:56am

Soph from Enghien, Belgium

Thank you all!
@hercules: I didn't print it, maybe later when I'll get my house (we're building) i'll let you know
@Morris: Thank you yourself, to comment, and to think about so nice things when you see my photo ;-)
@Phil:I didn't change anything from the original, maybe a little crop but I don't think so, I can't remember. I took it like it came, but I wanted to keep the blue in the left up corner. I didn't want to change anything to that blue and i'm not good enough in post treatment to do something only on the rest of the picture. I don't know if it's possible, I guess it is... but for professionals ;-) Thank you for commenting!

26 Jul 2007 9:48am