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Desert Wildflower


Desert Wildflower
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Copyright: SC Davidson (azleader) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 50 W: 2 N: 185] (899)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-14
Categories: Desert, Flowers
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Exposure: f/4, 1/160 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-04-10 12:43
Viewed: 477
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Thus is another Sonoran desert wildflower I can't identify.

This is what I do know. This plant doesn't look anything like you'd expect to see in the Sonoran. It has broad leaves but it is NOT a succulent. It looks like something you'd see in temperate zones but not deserts.

This wildflower is tiny and comes in little clumps. The bee in this picture is only about 1/2 inch long.

This was photographed in Hieroglyphic Canyon in the Superstition Mountain Wilderness Area east of Phoenix in mid-August during the monsoon season. August is a month with intense heat. August is also well past normal wildflower season. The bright green stands out during this time of year because most every other delicate plant has long since dried up and turned to brown fuel for wildfires.

It was found in the middle of a wash that gets a lot of monsoon flooding so had a moisture source. It was just up the wash from the set of well known petroglyphs found in that canyon.

If I ever figure out what it is I will update this note. :)
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Hello Sc,

Don't have time to stick around much to day so I just
would like to congratulate you today and let you know
that I appreciate your picture... Well done

Everton

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  • Mana Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1675 W: 24 N: 4870] (15888)
  • [2008-04-11 19:04]

Hi Davidson,
Beautiful wildflowers with such lovely bright colour and you have skillfully captured them with a Bee on top. Very neat and sharp image. The green leaves as BG presents a fine contrast and lets the flowers to stand out nicely. Excellent DOF and a well chosen POV to portray them. Very nice composition. Kudos.
TFS.
Sumon

Yikes...You should have done double duty...been a photojournalist as well as a journalist, unless you already didn't...Did your paper belong to the NPPA? this is a great image...the deep colours are wonderful.
Bob

Hi Steve, beautiful composition here of this flowering plant with the popping bright blossom and bee. Fine note as well. Tfs Richard

very nice , pehaps it is Verbena? TFS Ori

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