Red Hot Poker

With an open topic from Cee for this week, I was naturally drawn to one of my favourite subjects, particularly as it’s not listed for the coming weeks.

This image is a detail from a photograph I took of a ‘Red Hot Poker’ (Kniphofia if you want to be properly botanical about it) that flowered last week.

Not that I’m a gardener by any means (that is Madame’s domain; I just cut the grass and do some of the heavy lifting) but macro photography is one of my particular interests and flowers are an inexhaustible source of subject matter

Just so you can see where it’s come from, here is the original image. Fun with Lightroom did the rest.

6 Comments on “Red Hot Poker”

Cee Neuner
June 11, 2015

Stunning in black and white. Great close up. 😀

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sustainabilitea
June 11, 2015

Looks very different but great in B&W.

janet

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- the only deadhead in the hameau
  June 12, 2015
  
  Thanks. A lot more interesting close up, I have to say.
  
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Julz.......artist, blogger, photographer, graphic designer
June 12, 2015

I have planted these in my garden, but apart from a few flowers that first year, they now look very scraggly, more of a weed than a plant, but I do so love the flower spike.

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- the only deadhead in the hameau
  June 12, 2015
  
  They are an acquired taste, and it does seem a very long time to have a straggly stalk hanging around for such a comparatively brief spectacle…but I’m no gardener.
  
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  - Julz.......artist, blogger, photographer, graphic designer
    June 12, 2015
    
    lol………..neither am I, not really I just dabble