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Thistle
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Copyright: Lenka Gondova (lgfoto) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 194 W: 13 N: 279] (1536)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-08-11
Categories: Savannah
Camera: Canon EOS 400 D, Sigma 70mm Macro
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/160 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-08-12 14:56
Viewed: 921
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Members of this genus grow as annual or biennial plants. The erect stem is tall, branched and furrowed but not spiny. The large, alternate leaves are waxy-lobed, toothed and thorny, as in other genera of thistle. The lower leaves are cauline (attached to the stem without petiole). The upper leaves have a clasping base. They have large, disc-shaped pink-to-purple, rarely white, solitary flower heads at the end of the stem. The flowers consist of tubular florets. The phyllaries under the flowers occur in many rows, with the outer row with spine-tipped lobes and apical spines. The fruit is a black achene with a white pappus.
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To Evelynn:lgfoto 1 08-14 12:20
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Hi Lenka,
A nice compostion of colours and details and that first thistle is ver6y sharp and easy to see.I do agree with Evelynn's comment with the brightness and contrast.
However still a nice photo.
regards
Matt.

This is a lovely capture of this thistle, Lenka. The sharpness and colors are wonderful, as is the diffused out of focus background. Although the frame is fine, I think the brightness and high contrast of it fights with your image a bit. What I mean is that white advances and neutrals recede. If the white comes forward that pushes your image further back... which often works well for a deep landscape shot. Here however I would like the thistle to advance and I think with a more neutral frame it could take on an almost three dimensional aspect. I'll try a workshop.


TFS
Evelynn ; )

Preciosos colores Lenka con unos preciosos contrastes.
Acertada exposición y un buen encuadre.
Saludos, JL.

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