There is more to these colourful flower pictures than meets the eye as close inspection reveals that each intricate part is a naked human body, or at least part of one - and one day they could be worth an arm and a leg.

Artist Cecelia Webber takes photos of naked people and then spends hundreds of hours on her computer transforming them into her stunning floral creations.

transform into：转变成...

Her models are carefully posed to produce the shapes she requires and then Cecelia digitally cuts, rotates and colours the bodies and limbs to create her finished images.

In a typical piece, which sells for up to £500, an arm may be the stem, a hand the seed and several legs the petals.

Stem：茎 petal：花瓣

花的其他组成部分：花蕊：pistil（雌蕊） stamen（雄蕊）；花萼：calyx

Cecilia has created incredibly realistic blue bells, dandelions, maple leaves, sunflowers and cherry blossom, among many others.

She takes up to two months photographing and editing each image.

The 25-year-old said: 'I was taking a series of nude photographs and was particularly struck by one that looked a great deal like a petal.

a series of：一系列= a train of

'I wondered if I would be able to create a full flower from it and began experimenting from there.

'It can take a great deal of time to get the correct photograph and I often take more than 50 photos of a single pose to bring what I see in my head into reality.'

bring into reality：使...成为现实

'My process is very organic and involves a great deal of experimentation.'

It is also very time-consuming, and Cecilia adds: 'An image can take up two two months to produce, though the time varies greatly depending on the complexity of the piece.

time-consuming：耗时间的

类似构词法：peace-loving：爱好和平的；labor-saving：节省劳力的

'I typically plan the poses I photograph, but I am always watching for unexpected forms that come about as a result of the process.'

Cecelia, from Los Angeles, California, added: 'Nudity is sometimes thought of as shameful thing, inspiring guilt or fear, but I hope to encourage people to think differently about their own bodies.

'I have had very good feedback across the board from people and feel very fortunate.'

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