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Photography by theonlydeadheadinthehameau
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.
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Open Topic
Stunning in black and white. Great close up. 😀
Looks very different but great in B&W.
janet
Thanks. A lot more interesting close up, I have to say.
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.
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.
lol………..neither am I, not really I just dabble