On 12/19/05, David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Soon after graduating my partner went over to Texas for a few months > to assist in some research at one of the universities. She brought > home some poppy seeds and after planting a few in the garden we soon > found the things sprouting all over the place. Poppies are nice so > we just let them grow. This is one of many plants that grew between > the cracks in the paving stones. > > Most of them were black in the centre but occasionally we'd have a > white one, as shown here. > > http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/photo/printsdb/view.php?p=166&t=1 > > They're very interesting to photograph, particularly as the flowers > are coming out of the buds. The slightest hint of wind sends them > swaying all over the place so you need a very still day. > > We've since moved house but we still have a good crop of poppies in > our herb garden because some seeds somehow hitched a ride with a > parsley plant we brought with us. >
This is way cool! The tight dof, wherein we can't see the stem, makes it look like a disembodied bloom, just floating there. Nice smooth bokeh. A real keeper, this one. Frame it and hang it. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
