GOLDEN BEAUTY

Posted by Anne (White Rock, Canada) on 22 April 2007 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

These wild flowers are regarded as a nuisance! But up close, they are a really quite beautiful flower. I'm afraid it has to go though! My small patch of garden is completely overtaken by weeds since the winter. Never seen so many - think the hurricane force gales we had during the winter must have blown seeds from everywhere, right at me!

Thanks for all your comments on my "silly" picture yesterday - really appreciate them. Don't think I'll be able to get around everyone individually tonight. (Still Saturday here).

Well! I am back and missed being away so long due to ill health. It was a bit of a struggle to find energy to stay on my computer and post. My daughter Lesley and her husband Robin, gave me this wonderful gift of a cruise to Alaska and Lesley and I had a whale of a time! I could just live on that ship - absolutely wanted for nothing! Hope to hear from you all! Don't know how much I can get around posting comments - so will probably have to keep them brief - but will try to get around as much as I can! Thanks to all my friends for their good wishes!

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Comments (11)

Behrooz from Tehran, Iran

The yellow looks very good on this shot. I can feel the warmth of the sun, Anne.

22 Apr 2007 6:24am

Jen from Jessup, United States

Looks very similar to the dandelion here...which people just can't stand, but I find quite pretty. But heck I think all flowers are pretty : )
Beautiful shot, love the details and the pop of yellow in the sea of green!!

22 Apr 2007 12:19pm

Rahul from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Good contrast, nice lighthing, and great inspiration for me, as i am posting my flower series next. :) I agree with Jen here, all flowers are beautiful and on this one the yellow really pops out well on the green background.

22 Apr 2007 3:02pm

amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

Wonderful shot, Anne! The yellow does really pop from the green. Pretty soon my whole front yard (about 1 acre) will be a sea of this yellow. We just can't keep up to them... too many in the neighborhood who don't so how can we? ;-)

22 Apr 2007 5:27pm

@amy: Thanks Amy! I have been experimenting with RAW. It is fantastic if you have a program that will work with it before you take it into Photoshop. You can do so much more with color, everything really without putting artifacts into the picture. So I got some extra yellow into the dandelion.
All they do on the common area grass here is mow them off! But you've got a lot to manage there! You'll get a lot more too from other people especially if they have acreages full of them - too bad! Maybe you can take a Van Gogh, type photo of the whole sea of them! Then mount it on Canvas lol. ;)

Art Monkey from Salt Spring Island, Canada

what a beautiful, brilliant yellow - great shot Anne!

22 Apr 2007 8:33pm

Still from France

Beautiful , indeed.

22 Apr 2007 9:16pm

Nick Passantino from Bronx, United States

Nice shot.. Looks like a warm day

22 Apr 2007 11:09pm

Reza from Montreal, Canada

Great color.

23 Apr 2007 1:27am

Laurie from New Jersey, United States

They really are lovely even though they are considered a vile weed. My kids would make large bouquets for me when they were little. They were very easy to come by on my lawn.

Lovely details.

23 Apr 2007 1:55am