Hover Poppies

Hover Poppies

Image by Lapse of the Shutter
This is a different processing of 'Hovering Poppies' that appears in 'Ten of the Best'. This was a particularly lucky photo, as you will know if you've ever tried following insects around in order to get a picture of them. In this case, I was just intending to shoot the two poppies, thinking they would make an excellent image on their own. As I had just composed and focussed on the front flower, this hover fly appeared and waited, right in the line of focus. All I had to do was press the shutter. I think the slight texture applied gives an almost painted feel to the image. I'm just not sure whether I prefer this version, or this one that was produced with the help of the Fractalius Photoshop plugin.

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Scarlet Flame California poppy

Image by THE Holy Hand Grenade!
California's State Flower, the California Poppy, in the "Scarlet Flame" cultivar, seen in a neighbor's yard in Albany, CA. Taken by a Nikkormat FT2 with a Micro-Nikkor 55mm ƒ3.5 non-AI lens on Kodak Portra 400NC sometime in 2005. (The roll has Christmas 2004 pictures prior to this shot ...) Negative scanned by an HP G4010, dust eliminated in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.

Depth of field indicates (to me...) that the ƒ-stop was ƒ16 or smaller...

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Image by nchenga
poppies....


(continuing the boring flower snapshot series)

Blue Himalayan Poppy

Image by Per Ola Wiberg ~ powi
Saw this beautiful flower in a garden in iisalmi, Finland, its beautiful so say!

Blue Himalayan Poppy (Meconopsis grandis), thank you Imbala , :-))

Bergvallmo, tack tack LellePelle för namnet ! :-))

Poppy

Image by velodenz