Graham’s Sunflowers at Sundown 3
September 18, 2017
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This entry was posted on September 18, 2017 by Linda Grashoff. It was filed under Built Environment, Farmlands, Flowers, Garden, Leaves and was tagged with back lighting, leaves, photography, sunflower.
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Oh I like this too, Linda – love the way its hanging over menacingly towards me, almost wanting to envelop me – bit of van Gogh here as well – and the bee’s good too.
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September 18, 2017 at 3:38 AM
Thank you, Adrian. Glad you don’t mind being menaced by this sunflower. The bee was such a gift!
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September 18, 2017 at 3:04 PM
These have been fantastic shots, Linda. Especially for someone that doesn;t normally shoot flowers.
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September 18, 2017 at 7:07 AM
Thanks, Ken. One reason I don’t photograph flowers very often is because I usually can’t think of any way to do it that isn’t mundane. The angle of the sun and the height of the sunflowers—and the fact that I could get right up to them—gave me some special opportunities. And admiring your and Lynn Wohlers’s photographs of flowers made me want to see what I could do with that begonia.
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September 18, 2017 at 3:10 PM
Flowers are great subjects because of their natural beauty but the challenge for any photographer is to present that beauty in an interesting image, one that transcends it’s own beauty.
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September 18, 2017 at 4:28 PM
That’s it, Ken! That’s it! The image has to transcend the beauty of the flower! And that’s hard to do. Thank you for these words. I hope they reverberate in my head for a very long time.
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September 18, 2017 at 7:39 PM
Ah, this one is so much fun! The light coming from behind, the leaves’ thick presence, the bright bee, the flower head benevolently nodding, as if to tell you a secret that would erase all woes…I lovelovelove it.
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September 18, 2017 at 4:35 PM
Thank you, Lynn. That light was so cool. I’m never outside at this time of day; I’m either cooking or eating dinner. But I was in Wisconsin visiting my daughter and her friends, one of whom (Graham) “owns” these sunflowers. And we were having a picnic, so I was outside at this time of day. Lucky me.
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September 18, 2017 at 7:43 PM
A great memory to go along with the photos…
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September 19, 2017 at 11:59 AM
Now we see the light you mentioned in the previous post – ‘sundown’. The leaves look fantastic and I chuckled when I saw this giant of a flower towering over the image and this tiny insect about to make a landing.
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September 19, 2017 at 3:41 AM
I’m not at all sure what I should have called this time of day. The sun was definitely on its way down, but it wasn’t sunset. Thanks for commenting, Andy. Glad you got a chuckle from this one.
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September 19, 2017 at 11:06 AM