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I'm not a professional photographer, and I do not want to teach or educate anybody here — I'm merely posting my musings on one of my hobbies, for whatever it's worth!

2011-06-24

Structural Post-Biology? Post-Biological Structure?

solflower skeleton after a wet winter
picture data: Nikon D300,  16 - 35 mm f/4.0; picture taken at ISO 800, 35 mm (52 mm equivalent), f/13, 1/640
Last year we had some (unplanned) nice, big sunflowers in our vegetable garden. Once the blooming period was over and the plant was having a hard time keeping its heads up with all the seeds, we cut off the flower heads and laid them on the empty beds, for the birds to harvest the seeds. This spring now, when (to our dismay) the weeds started growing like crazy, I found this interesting skeleton of a sunflower head amidst all the emerging weed — an interesting contrast between sparkling new life and its decay the year after!

4 comments:

deborah.kyburz said...

Amazing how robust a sunflower-head can be!
Or maybe it was enormously huge!? A mutant-flower? Flowerzilla!

Rolf Kyburz said...

no, this was just some 15 cm diameter ...

Rolf Kyburz said...

... the skeleton, that is - the flower was maybe 25 - 30 cm!

deborah.kyburz said...

...unless you enlarge the picture about a 100 times ;-)