There's a Whole Huge Flickr Group Devoted to Photographing the Virtual Flowers of Second Life. Here's Some Favorites!

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting

RigTorok shared this picture of what I first thought was a dogwood before realizing it has one too many leaves. Perhaps it’s a pear tree. Whatever kind of tree it is, it is lovely. It is just one of the nearly 10,000 pictures in the Flowers of Second Life group. With 785 members, it’s fairly active and blissfully well-moderated. The rules are clear, the flowers must be the focus of the picture, not a patch of flowers in the background. Even better, posters must include a SLURL so others can go see the flowers if they wish. Speaking of… [To teleport, click here]

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Maelyn S shot this lovely picture of poppies called Les Coquelicots. I love how the flowers follow the leading line of the river. They are a beautiful foreground that draws our eyes and then leads us deeper into the forest. Simply lovely. [To teleport, click here]

Paul didn’t just make flowers the focus. One flower is the entire picture. The title is “The Most Beautiful Thing Is What’s Inside.” In the description, he declared this is “the most beautiful lotus flower in the whole of SL.” He could be right. This is certainly the most beautiful photo of a lotus. [To teleport, click here]

Blip Mumfuzz’s Untitled picture of Cogon grass is striking. The grass are lit against a black background allows us to see the individual feathers clustered like clouds around the stalk. It’s so lovely, it’s a shame it’s an invasive species. [To teleport, click here]

I love flowers. So much so, I forgot I wrote about Flowers of Second Life back in March. I wrote an entire column before coming upon pictures I had seen before, so you know the group will be active. You really should check it out, join the group, and pick some flowers. 

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Cajsa’s Choices is devoted to unique, artistic, and innovative virtual world-based images and screenshots that showcase the medium as an art form and Second Life as a creative platform. (Generally not images that fit on this Bingo card.)  

Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.

Comments

[Vivena]

Thank you so much for this new mention of Flowers of Second Life, I appreciate it a lot and it's always a pleasure to read what you write and I love the choices you made :-)