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Centaurea cyanus
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Mark Balas (CatStevens)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 56 W: 0 N: 63]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (468) |
| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-05-31 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5 |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/500 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-06-08 8:06 |
| Viewed: 892 |
| Favorites: 1 [view] |
| Points: 8 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
(Cornflower, Bachelor's button, Basket flower, Bluebottle, Boutonniere flower, Hurtsickle) is a small annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe.
It is an annual plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, with grey-green branched stems. The leaves are lanceolate, 1-4 cm long. The flowers are most commonly an intense blue colour, produced in flowerheads (capitula) 1.5-3 cm diameter, with a ring of a few large, spreading ray florets surrounding a central cluster of disc florets. The blue pigment is protocyanin, which in roses is red.[1]
In the past it often grew as a weed in crop fields. It is now endangered in its native habitat by agricultural intensification, particularly over-use of herbicides, destroying its habitat; in the United Kingdom it has declined from 264 sites to just 3 sites in the last 50 years.[2] It is also however, through introduction as an ornamental plant in gardens and a seed contaminant in crop seeds, now naturalised in many other parts of the world, including North America and parts of Australia.
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- Alutka
![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 132 W: 42 N: 372]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-s-g.gif)
(1584) - [2008-06-08 8:21]
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Witaj.
Nie ma to jak polny kwiatek! Sama słodycz...
Ładna kompozycja, dobra ostrość i nasycenie barwy - ogólnie bardzo dobrze.
Miło jest oglądać Twoje zdjęcia.
Dzieki i pozdrawiam
Alina
Hello Mark,
WOW that really is a beautiful shot, amazing colors, the blues are absolutely gorgeous, very nice contrats against the soft green background, excellent composition and point of view, superb sharpness and very nice depth of field, good light and clarity.TFS
Angela
Hi Mark
Lovely sharp shot of this beautiful flower. You have good saturation which really helps this one stand out. TFS
Cheers
Sue
Hello Mark,
Compliment on this fine and beautiful composition of purple flower!
the exposure and focus is spot on with perfect sharpness, good lighting and details
very well done and the notes as well
greeting
Tony
