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Colorado Sunflowers — wk 34

After a day of painting our kitchen, it was time to head out for some fun finding sunflowers. A few weeks ago, I scouted potential locations. Making my way to the field, I found this flower. After setting up on tripod, the sun hid behind a cloud, providing nice shadow free lighting for a few minutes.

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First Sunflower Of The Day.

Working the scene, I made some other images after the sun re-appeared. There was slight breeze that was blowing, so several images were discarded due to movement, leaving this one

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Sunflower Seed Head.

For this image, I raised the camera to capture this image with the sunflowers receding into the distance.

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Field Of Sunflowers.

Most of the sunflowers face the morning sun, so most of the images are backlit with the afternoon sun. However, I did found one sunflower that faced the setting sun.

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Sunflower Facing The Sun.

There was one spot where I found a group of 5 sunflowers, with petals and leaves backlit by the sun.

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Backlit Sunflowers.

For a different viewpoint, I re-positioned the camera so that the sun was directly behind the sunflower and re-shot to create this image.

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Sun Behind Sunflower.

Soon after, the sun dipped behind a cloud, put the sunflowers into the shade. I switched lenses and made a series if images looking down the alley behind these flowers.

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Head Of The Sunflower Alley.

After the sun dipped behind the horizon, I found another sunflower, now in the shade. The main stem of a sunflower is covered by hairs. Also, the leaves have a really interesting ribs and texture that I really like to capture.

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Sunflower Head Detail.

In this final image, I had to make a sunset shot looking towards the Rocky Mountains. Since we were close to the airport, several aircraft were taking off at sunset. I waited until on airplane had entered the frame for this image.

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Sunset Over The Rockies.

This was a great day to experience the sunflowers, even though it was another hot summer’s day.

{ 1 comment… add one }
  • Jonathan Mitchell August 25, 2019, 1:38 am

    Nice pictures Match.

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