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Why go abroad when you have fields of these on your doorstepâĶApparently when sunflowers are growing they rotate to follow the sun, before finally fixing in position to face East. Isnât Nature wonderful?
Bee on a sunflower at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Old Westbury, New York (NY), United States (USA). #longisland #newyork #usa #flowers #bees
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These gorgeous sunflowers are the only thing smiling in the heat right now.
These are old pix, taken about 4 years ago with my old Pentax camera. These were growing in a field near my house. I love sunflowers because they just make me smile.
Yesterday, we visited the Pope Farm Conservancy in Middleton, WI for the Annual Sunflower days. Though, the sunflowers are not at their peak bloom and are expected later this coming week. If you are interested in sunflower fields and I did see there are some great photo opportunities too. If you are wondering for a day trip this is awesome. Here is the info www.popefarmconservancy.org/events/2014-sunflower-days/ .
Also, I plan to visit the Centralia Balloon Festival mid-month. www.balloon-fest.com/. Anybody heading down there ?
We've found that some 'Cherry Rose' flowers have much more cherry-rose color and just a dusting of the lemon-yellow color on their tips.
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What more could you need but the comfort of a sunflower to rest in the sunshine of the day !
Pushing on that trigger is like pulling magic into my very soul...Darrell.
Have a fantastic day dear Flickr friends !!!!
The Glory's of Nature - Sunflower Beauty.
Sunflowers are usually tall annual or perennial plants that grow to a height of 300 centimetres or more. They bear one or more wide, terminal capitula (flower heads), with bright yellow ray florets at the outside and yellow or maroon (also known as a brown/red) disc florets inside. Several ornamental cultivars of Helianthus annuus have red-colored ray florets; all of them stem from a single original mutant. During growth, sunflowers tilt during the day to face the sun, but stop once they begin blooming. This tracking of the sun in young sunflower heads is called heliotropism. By the time they are mature, sunflowers generally face east. The rough and hairy stem is branched in the upper part in wild plants but is usually unbranched in domesticated cultivars. The petiolate leaves are dentate and often sticky. The lower leaves are opposite, ovate or often heart-shaped.
Nothing says "Kansas" like a field full of sunflowers.
I've been wanting to visit a sunflower field for a while now but was not wanting to fight crowds. I just happened to drive past this one and drove out the following evening for some photos. Only one other person stopped by to take pictures.
The sunflower crop is only in bloom for about 2 weeks and looks like I was just in time as some were starting to droop.
"Why do young flowers move their blooms to always face the sun over the course of a day?
And then: Once sunflowers reach maturity, why do they stop tracking the sun and only face east?"
Click here for some interesting facts:
www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/05/488891151/the-...
Sunflowers and valley oak at sunset, rural Yolo County, California.
I'd waited three years for this field to get sunflowers in it so I could shoot it from above on the levee road that runs next to it. With good clouds moving in last night I thought the wait was finally going to be worth it.
But all the sunflowers were facing east and the levee looked north onto the field. So my dream shot was just the sides of a bunch of flowers and not the sea of yellow I'd hoped for. And when I moved down to shoot it looking west all the trees in the creek bed and those utility poles crowded up the horizon.
Even the sunset wasn't as great as it looks here. I bumped up the contrast and clarity in the raw file to give it this punch. About the only thing that did go right is that I remembered to dust off my sensor and give the graduated neutral density filter a good cleaning before hand. I'd been getting some really dirty images when stopping down lately.