Walking around Lady Bird Lake recently, we (my hiking group) passed a couple of wildflower pastures. One had several of these blooming plants. After I got home, it took me a few minutes to find it online: Basket Flower, Centaurea americana.





Walking around Lady Bird Lake recently, we (my hiking group) passed a couple of wildflower pastures. One had several of these blooming plants. After I got home, it took me a few minutes to find it online: Basket Flower, Centaurea americana.





Assignment: Pick a vantage point (with a one-step radius), stay there for at least an hour, and photograph. Find or make interesting views out of ordinary or usually-ignored items.
I took close to 100 photographs and decided 6 were good enough to keep (with one being the photograph of my tripod to show my vantage point).
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This is where I stood.

Weeds with yellow flowers, panned.

The side vent of the grill.

Where the driveway segments meet.

A composite montage of sunflowers and the hurricane fence.

A lily pad with rain drops. The yellow lily is in a plastic barrel and was still closed at that time of the morning.

And yet another way to blur photos on purpose. The irony is I had to delete several photos from this set where I tried to take a standard photograph but they were out of focus: not clear enough, not blurry enough. Huh.
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Sunflowers.

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These ox eye flowers sort of look as if they were suspended in mid air.

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A bottlebrush.

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Firewheels.

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Purple heart plant.

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Sunflowers, almost look three dimensional. Well, actually, they are, but photos aren’t.

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Sunflowers, going somewhere in a hurry.

Take a photo, copy it, flip it, overlay it on top of the original.
Use this graffiti . . .

and get this.

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Tractor 1, take 1.

Tractor 1, take 2.

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Tractor 2, take 1.

Tractor 2, take 2.

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Sunflower and spider friend.

Double them up.
