{"id":8953,"date":"2020-09-07T22:59:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T05:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2020-09-07T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T06:00:03","slug":"sunflowers-on-the-eastern-plains-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/sunflowers-on-the-eastern-plains-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflowers On The Eastern Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early, in August, I headed out to the eastern plains in search of fields of sunflowers. Near DIA, I passed one field where there were many cars parked along the roadside. So I just carried on looking. North of Bennett, I found several fields where there were no crowds. Fortunately, we did not get a lot of hail this year. As a result, the leaves of the plants were in really good condition without being punctured by hail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Single Sunflower, Eastern Plains.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In this image, I used a really wide lens to create a different perspective of these flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2482-0075-Sunflowers-Eastern-Plains\"
Sunflowers, Eastern Plains.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

From a distance, the sunflowers created a skyline. I included a grain elevator (or similar structure) to provide a break to the horizontal skyline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2482-0084-Sunflowers-Along-The-Skyline\"
Sunflowers Along The Skyline.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The sunflower leaves can reflect a lot of sunlight; this would create a lot of contrast with deep shadows. So I waited patiently for the clouds to provide a softer lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunflower Duo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I looked for a composition that had a line of three prominent flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Line Of Sunflowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I always like to capture images that include a side on view across the flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2482-0104-Another-Single-Sunflower\"
Another Single Sunflower.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The main stalk that supports the sunflower, typically has fine white hairs that run the entire length of the plant. In this image, I shot from behind, to include the hairy stalk as well as two serrated leaves on either side of the flower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2482-0114-Behind-The-Sunflower\"
Behind The Sunflower.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I spent the rest of the late afternoon make more images until the sun finally set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early, in August, I headed out to the eastern plains in search of fields of sunflowers. Near DIA, I passed one field where there were many cars parked along the roadside. So I just carried on looking. North of Bennett, I found several fields where there were no crowds. Fortunately, we did not get a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[995,237,991,895,47,1402,165,1161],"class_list":{"0":"post-8953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-project52","7":"tag-bennett","8":"tag-colorado","9":"tag-eastern-plains","10":"tag-fields","11":"tag-flowers","12":"tag-hairy","13":"tag-leaves","14":"tag-sunflowers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2kp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8954,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8953\/revisions\/8954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}