Corn Bluebottle

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Posted by Tom Smit on May 23, 2009 at 2:12 PM

I'm not sure the correct English name (corn bluebottle or cornflower or hurt-sickle or bluebottle), so I took the first one as the title. Apologize for this.

This flower is a single specimen in my backgarden. These flowers are in my youthdays very common but due to more efficient agriculture they have disappeared almost completely from the cornfields in Holland. Most of them are cultivated now. This one thinks my garden is a nice place (no idea where he did come from).

Please let me know what you think about it (photographically I mean

).

Thanks in advance.

Exposure time 1/160 s
F-number f/14
Exposure program Manual
ISO speed ratings ISO 200
Focal length 180 mm
Flash mode External flash

Posted by Bertl Menegoni on May 24, 2009 at 6:11 AM

Hi Tom,
fine job you did here. I like the color and the detail.
I would try to find a lower POV.
Just an idea

Bertl

Posted by jack chapman on May 24, 2009 at 8:15 AM

great detail and nice light too

Posted by John Robinson on May 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM

Nice shot Tom
It is indeed what we call " Greater Knapweed" (centaurea scabiosa )
Likes limey soil.
Good shot anyway
Chhers
John

Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on May 25, 2009 at 3:56 AM

Very nice and detailed shot.

Posted by David Kjaer on May 25, 2009 at 5:11 AM

Hi Tom

Nicely presented - I like your composition!

David