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Copyright: Sweety De Freitas (puffy) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 291 W: 0 N: 339] (1351)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-04-18
Categories: Flowers
Camera: Canon 300D, 18 - 55, KeyMen 512MB, Hama UV
Exposure: f/14.0, 1/400 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-04-19 7:28
Viewed: 897
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Went for a walk with my little boy in a different park yesterday and took this shot. I have always wanted to take this plant/grass for a long time, but just never get close to one. I like how they float around with the wind, it give me a feeling that is like it is under water. I am not sure what this grass is called, but someone told me that this is Toetoe when I was taken this photo, so please do correct me if I am wrong.


Toetoe - cortaderia toetoe

Toetoe at entrance to Marawhara Track,
North Piha, early 2000. Photo: Sandra Coney

These large handsome native grasses grow in clumps with tall plumed flower heads that appear from November.

Toetoe like growing on sunny open sites such as sand dunes and coastal cliffs and hills. The flower plumes are creamy in colour and usually gracefully arched. The leaves are long, thin and scabbard-like and have rasping edges, hence their popular name, cutty-grass.

At Piha there are impressive displays of toetoe on Taitomo Island and on the bank just south of the entrance to the Marawhara Track at North Piha.

Native toetoe is not to be confused with the introduced South American pampas which invades open sites and spread voraciously. Pampas has purple-pink seed heads although these fade to creamy-brown. The seed heads stand straighter than toetoe and the leaves of pampas are stiffer and narrower. The dead leaves of pampas curl into spirals whereas those of toetoe hand straight down.

The information above is taken from http://www.piha.co.nz/natives.htm.
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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4774 W: 294 N: 4020] (13209)
  • [2005-04-19 7:32]
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Very nice composition Sweety!
Lighting and details are wonderful.TFS...:))

Wooow Sweety!
This is great photo! I this arty shot very much! Just perfect shot!

Nice composition, great light and good framing.
Well done.
TFS.

Hi Sweety, this is good. The Toetoe looks great. Good composition as I like how you have taken this shot of them with the sun shining a certain way on them. Well done.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2005-04-20 3:51]
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Very interesting POV Sweety. I like contrast between blue sky and golden grass. I almost feel wind blowing from your picture :-) Good work!

Points tomorrow!

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  • japie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1814 W: 100 N: 1904] (5187)
  • [2005-04-20 10:55]
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You did a wonderful job with the backlighting Sweety. The composition is excellent as well.

Very well done and thanks for posting

A very artistic and well composed image, Sweety. I especially like the sunshine that filters through the stems of this plant casting its golden light. Well done and thank you.

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