Same as above.
19 Jul 19 I had planned on another image for today but a day in Sequim enjoying the lavender farms 24 hours prior to the annual festival and crowds, shooting whatever caught my eye, resulted in another offering and Jan selected it. I have had a couple favorite farms over the years but as they grow larger and larger crops, there is more crowding of the plants, and the fields to my way of thinking are not quite as attractive as they used to be. This growth offers different opportunities and I need to learn to embrace them but I still like the smaller and greater number of farms we enjoyed about 10 years ago. One of the favorite farms about which I've written before that has lots of wild (planted by the birds) opium poppies growing among the lavender had hundreds of plants today post flower but with partially developed seed pods. Unfortunately for us they were still green and not ready to harvest (we bad folks always take home a dozen or so of the pods because the farm won't sell them to us) so we won't be adding to our garden this year courtesy of the farm, but I did take the opportunity to take several shots of them. This submission is among my favorites from the shoot and while I wish they were brown (mature) instead of green (seeds not mature) they all made for nice compositions. I shared one similar to this around 2009 but it was a fully creative version and while quite colorful, really didn't do a good job of representing the plant. This one is totally straight, save for a little cropping off of both left and right sides, so it should give you a good idea of how the poppy looks after it drops its flower. So red opium poppy plants in the foreground and lavender in the background. Other than the cropping, this is straight from the camera. Standing Out with the Group Nikon D500; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; ISO 200; 1/500 sec @ f /9.
