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I took this photo back in 2010. I liked the contrast between the flower itself and the stalks or whatever they’re called sitting behind it, and the little tufts of pollen. (click through for visual details)
My lovely bleeding hearts. I miss them so much. They grew on the back of my lot, under trees since they grow in shade. My behind me neighbor decided he needed to poison the soil along our shared chain link fence to later put his shed there. One day they looked like this, the next day they were shriveled and dead.
I had another photo in mind for this thread, but a couple of days ago I came across these hanging poppies by happenstance on (another) bike tour on a Capitola, CA roadside and stopped to enjoy them…
There’s a footpath along a disused railway line, very close to where I live in Edinburgh, Scotland. Out for an evening stroll, I spotted this. It was a few years ago, and I always carried my pocket Panasonic camera, and I was amazed what you could do with such a small piece of kit. Nowadays, it just would have been my phone - doubtless with similar results. When you think what it would have taken to get that depth of field and detail in the old days.
Our pasture is awash in flowers, and I thought I might get some good shots of them, but instead, the geodesic-dome structure of this dandelion really caught my eye:
