How do you make a ptessed flowers picture? and Flower chafer

How do you make a ptessed flowers picture?

i wanr to preserve a bunch of flowers and put them in a picture frame and give them to my mom. is there any ideas? what should i use to glue them down? what flowers? what should the back ground be?


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Answer by Emma
One way to preserve flowers and use in crafts is by hanging them to dry. If you decide to preserve your flowers whole, and intact, you will need to decide this before they have fully bloomed. If a flower has opened up too much, when it is dried the petals will fall off. The brighter and more vivid the fresh flower is, the better color it will have as it dries. If you want more intense colors, be sure to start with that trait in the fresh flower. If the dried flower will be used with it's stem, it would be best to wire the stem while the flower is still fresh. Then attach the flower, upside down, to a wire hanger and leave in a dark place for two to three weeks. If the dried flowers will be stored a while before use, cover them with a light material, such as tissue paper to keep the dust off.

Flowers preserved in this way can be used for a variety of purposes. For a special event, such as a wedding, some people want to preserve their bouquets. After following drying instructions bouquets can be placed as a wall hanging next to the wedding photo, in a shadow box, or simply placed on a table or in a hutch. After flowers are dried they can also be put back in a vase and set on a table. If a single flower is preserved, perhaps to save on space, it can be laid over the wedding frame on in front of the wedding photo. Individually dried flowers can also be used when making a wreath.

More on How to Dry Flowers - http://www.craft-kits.net/drying-flowers.htm

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Flower chafer


Flower chafers are a group of scarab beetles. The adult insects visit flowers to feed on pollen and nectar or browse the petals. Most of them tend to be hairy and are good pollinators but some species are considered pests.

I believe the flower chafer depicted in this photo belongs to genus Oxythyrea.
UPDATE: Looks like it's Oxythyrea cinctella after all. Thanks to J. Coelho for the identification and Eckehard Roessner and Frank Köhler for the confirmation.

Best viewed Large On Black.
Click here for more photos of flower chafers in my photostream.

I Shot My Macro This Way:
Canon EOS 400D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM, no flash.
In broad daylight, raising the sensitivity to ISO:400 enabled me to use an f/16 aperture (for a decent depth of field to cover most of the insect), while still maintaining a workable shutter speed (1/320sec). Shot in aperture priority mode, with an exposure bias of -2/3EV, in order not to overexpose the white flower petals.

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