Going Down Together

I have to confess, I have absolutely no clue what this is. My first thought was that it was a Native American tribal outfit, given the design and flow. It's intriguing, regardless.

Thanks for the explanation and the second photo, I did not know what I'm looking at.... the second one is very nice( a bit too big a file though), this one is an abstract pazzle, with nice colors.

Hey Jeff, sorry for the confusion. It is the spent heads of the Mexican Flame Vine.

 

Pnina, you are right, I reduced it. Maybe this is better.

 

Kirk

 

 

 

Very lovely and a great subject line. I was going to guess that they were dead dandelion heads, but then I saw your explanation.

 

This is a very nice and beautiful flower shot, with interesting shallow DOF. it is vivid in colors and well placed on the frame.The initial one has, as I wrote you a kind of a mistery abstract ....

I like the dying flame better than the vivid in-bloom flower, pretty as it is.

Shawn, thanks. After I took this and saw it on the screen, it reminded me of the stories you hear of couples that after one dies, the other does not live much longer and the soft focused one here reminded me of the one that passed on and the sharper one in the foreground the one that is soon to follow.

 

Pnina, thanks for commenting on the color image. I don't know why the image posted instead of the link.

 

Jeff, I am surprisingly pleased with this Dead Flame shot, which would be an appropriate title as well. The flowers are pretty and butterflies like them too but they are hard to capture because of their bright orange/red color.

 

Thanks,

Kirk

I had thought I had left a comment on this photo a while back. it must have been one of those moments when I zone out and forget to confirm the comment.

 

At any rate I really like this shot. Even without the explanation I could see these were some kind of spent blossoms going to seed. What is great about this is the fact that you really do have to look hard to unravel its secrets thus allowing a more casual glance to take wing and turn it into many abstract scenes. Two shaggy headed horned prehistoric horses, or some dancing straw dressed natives engaging in a fertility ritual by firelight or .......

 

I know what you mean about trying to get good shots of extremely red flowers. Around here, we have a Lobelia species cardinalis which is intensely red. I always manage to blow out the red channel every time I try to get a good shot. They will be out in the next week or so and I will try again. You've got a beautiful red tone in the above photo.

Thank you Gordon, appreciate your comments.

 

Funny, the color one I took years ago with my first digital camera; a Nikon Coolpix 3200 P&S set on Macro auto.

 

Maybe I should set my DSLR on Program mode or Auto - huh?

 

Got to get out in the garden more.

 

Thanks again,

Kirk

I always enjoy dropping by to see what you've been up to. Lately I have just not been around much. I have been doing a poor job of keeping up with new additions as well as following up on comments on my own pages.

 

I do not think my camera has ever been used in auto mode. I will have to give it a try and see what happens :-)

Thank you for looking.