Gone to Seed

Resorting once again to archive raiding...

This one was taken back in August. I must admit that I no longer recall what it was that I wanted out of this shot, just that I wasn't fully satisfied with this result. Now that I can't remember what I wanted I find that I like it a little more.

Quite a bit of work was done on this one. I think it's worth noting that what looks like a shadow behind this dead flower (wild marigold or something like that I think) is actually another dead flower in the distance. The picture was actually shot in very bright (and hot) sunlight, which I suppose gives a little bit of a hint of what was done in processing.

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Home for Sale

First of the archive-mining shots (I haven't anything recent to post).

There's an area at Deas Island Park that was cleared in the not too distant past. It's starting to grow over a bit now, mostly scrubby weeds, moss and wild marigold-like flowers so far. The odd thing about it is that is seems to be a dumping ground for snails as the ground is fairly littered with empty snail shells. Not sure if the shells are naturally abandonded or if they've been left there after being picked clean by some kind of predator.

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Different Day, Different Insect

I've kind of gotten side-tracked for the past couple of days and almost forgot to post another picture... My attempt to get a roll going is off to a shaky start!

This was taken the day after the previous post at a totally different park (Deas Island as opposed to Fraser River) but the insects are were both caught/shot on the same kind of flower (I was told that it's chamomile?). The 'poses' are almost identical - I have a great report with my bug subjects to get them to strike such similar poses. Actually, it's just that I wanted to get a nice sharp shot of the eyes and that's only possible from this angle or very similar angle.

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