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Happy "Looking close... on Friday!" with "a flower's backside".
... and many thanks for your views, faves and comments! :-)
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My goal with this series is to explore every day scenes under the cover of darkness. A street corner, a lamp post, a doorway. Big city, small town, urban, rural. Man-made light versus nature’s darkness–––light and shadow interpreting minimalist settings in black and white. To see more in this series, check out Cover Of Darkness.
Early on in the COVER OF NIGHT series, I shot a couple gas stations. They were not initially the type scene I was looking to capture, but when I came across one late at night, bright and isolated in the darkness, it was impossible for me to resist, so I continue to shoot them. I have now shot enough that they have become a series-within-the-series. For a look at them as a collection, check out, Gas Stations
El tema de esta semana (11 de Marzo) es "Espalda"
The theme for this week (on March 11) is "Backside"
Explore - July 14, 2017
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"Like Wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would."
8-7-2009
We finally have found a sunflower field in bloom, it is a smaller variety probably because our growing season was cut so short by the spring floods. The field they are in was under water until the middle of May.
Everybody knows that the top side, the sun side, of a flower's bloom is the best face of any particular specimen. Sometimes I agree and sometimes I believe that the bottom side, the ground side of the blossom is just as compelling. Maybe even more so than the top. But, oftentimes, it is only the insects and the mice that can see it.
I made this capture with a viewfinder-and-monitor-blind technique, that is to say not seeing my subject either way but, instead, holding the camera lens at mouse-height and pointing it slightly upward to get this particular view of the dahlia, some distant pines and sky.
My DSLR camera, marvelously proficient in every other way, does not possess a moveable, flip-up LCD monitor on the back of the camera body, as some other models do. That would have been the easy way to take this shot, using an adjustable monitor. I but I had no choice in the matter. Even lying flat to the ground wouldn't have let me see what I was shooting in this situation. So I did things the old-fashioned way. Shoot and check and shoot and check again. Damn! Still missed it! But, eventually,
using the old "shotgun" approach, even the sightless man will hit his target, given enough tries.
Yep. This time, as lovely as the front/top of the dahlia blossom is,
I'm calling the bottom/ground side of it the indisputable winner. Your choice may vary, of course. All perfectly legal.
I'm not sure from this angle which little hoverfly this one is so feel free to offer me an ID. HBBBT have a great day folks ;0)
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Sometimes you just have to look at things from the rear. Taken at Hager Park on this past Sunday.