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Lost Summer


Lost Summer
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Copyright: Paulius Briedis (ptah) (8)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-06-04
Categories: Flowers
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/1000 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2004-10-25 10:18
Viewed: 1419
Points: 3
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
A sowthistle (or dandelion, or taraxacum), ready to let the seeds go, a great symbol of an end.
Now, when it's pouring with rain outside, it reminds me summer.

This flower, blossoming twice or more times a summer in Lithuania, creates great sceneries as often fields are only yellow of the bloom. And when the time to fly away and breed comes, same feelds become misty from these white fluff, playing with wind.
The plant itself, as far as I've heard, is quite known and well spead in all the world. It is being often destroyed by farmers as a weed, but ancients in our lands used it as a great material for herbal medicine. Even if it contains bitter, white juice, old people still know recipes to make a great soup of the flower. After all, when it's yellow, it's even sweet, watch out for the leaves then only! ;]

The pic: cropped, unsharp, framed. The "overexposure" is the sun, so don't take a swipe at me here :) .
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  • Midi Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 150 W: 24 N: 183] (2417)
  • [2004-10-25 10:27]

Welcome on TN. Your first picture is strange but beautiful, not common to see a shot like this.
A little bit over exposed on top because of sun.

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  • PDP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 2821 W: 344 N: 3779] (11769)
  • [2004-10-25 15:41]

Hi Paulius & welcome to TN, the idea and composition are very nice but it is too bright for me. But, thanks for writing such an informative note, I appreciate your effort.

I look forward to seeing more of your work.

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  • Luc Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1873 W: 304 N: 4300] (14729)
  • [2004-10-25 23:37]

You give me an idea for next spring. I will take a similar shot with the sun right back of the center of the flower.
Your note is instructive. Thanks for sharing Paulius.

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