Pincushion flower
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. The variety of plants in the Huntington herb garden is mind boggling. One has to look closely as they’re growing on top of one another but an hour there will turn up some wild stuff, like this spiny meteorite.
I saw it from second time, they’re growing on top of one another ;-) beautiful color. when I see photo like this I am dreaming about one of the 100mm macros ;-)
this image is beautiful. You’re doing something right. Keep doing whatever that is :)
Thank you Gedas and Caitlin, delighted you like this one. Someday someone will tell me what the hell it is.
We have something similar here in Florida that grows in the wild in swampy areas. Each of the little hair-like pins between the petal parts has a knob at the end, though. I don’t know what they are called, either, but when I find them they are usually covered in bugs that I have to brush off.
Ernie: The whole thing (with bugs) sounds like a great photograph. You should be shooting those.
I stumbled across some of these this weekend, but it was later in the afternoon so I was hot and tired. Everything came out overexposed. Maybe I’ll try again next weekend.
Ernie: Wow, fantastic. Where are you that you have plants like this?
If you’re in bright sunlight I highly recommend using exposure compensation to under expose by up to a stop if things are getting wiped out. Give it a try, it really works and let me know how you do I’d love to see your efforts.