{"id":8961,"date":"2020-09-13T22:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8961"},"modified":"2020-09-13T22:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:14:59","slug":"sunflowers-another-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/13\/sunflowers-another-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflowers, Another Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The weekend after making the last images of sunflowers, I headed back to the eastern plains to make more images of sunflowers. Once sunflowers open and reach full size, their flowers become heavy and begin to droop. Also, the yellow petals often wither and fall off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Single Sunflower, Day 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sunflower plants have really interesting textures and serrated edges. In this image, I was lucky to also capture a bug that had landed on the hairy back side of the leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunflower Leaves And Bug.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In this image, one can see the three sunflowers drooping under the weight of the seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Triple Drooping Sunflowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As the sun sank lower in the later afternoon, I walked around the edge of the sunflower field to find some interesting plants. This small sunflower was a late bloomer, with a small flower that had just started to bloom. I also liked the back lighting of the plant that lights up the hairy stem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hairy Sunflower, Backlit.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In this final image, I found a single plant that had drooped to allow a side view of the hairy back of the sunflower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Single Drooping Sunflower.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That concludes my images of the sunflower fields for 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weekend after making the last images of sunflowers, I headed back to the eastern plains to make more images of sunflowers. Once sunflowers open and reach full size, their flowers become heavy and begin to droop. Also, the yellow petals often wither and fall off. Sunflower plants have really interesting textures and serrated edges. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[237,1729,47,1402,165,1161],"class_list":["post-8961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-colorado","tag-easten-plains","tag-flowers","tag-hairy","tag-leaves","tag-sunflowers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t