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New Caledonia has some really exotic wildflowers and nearly every time Freddy and I go trekking we see flowers we have never seen before. Of course some flowers are old friends and appear every year in the same areas. Freddy especially likes the huge variety of Xanthostemon flowers. We call them Christmas flowers because they are - normally - everywhere in December. But this year they didn't really start blooming until April!
We take lots of "normal" images of New Caledonia wildflowers but taking sphere images of them is a challenge because they are usually small and widely scattered so a sphere image doesn't give you the same feeling that you get with your nose a couple of inches from them. This particular display of Xanthostemon flowers offered a nice sphere view - and if you pan down you'll be looking right into the flower cups.
The unusual view of this 3 meter high Xanthostemon bush is from 7 GoPro Hero2 cameras mounted on the end of a fishing pole poking up through the thicket of branches.
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