Patterns & textures

Back in the cactus room. If I’m going to post in B&W, then I’m looking for patterns and textures over color and there’s no better place for that than the cactus room! I don’t know what species this is — there isn’t enough “information” in the image! — but in contrast to many, many of its roommates, this one has a flat top. I think I used a close-up filter for this shot.

Uncertain Echinopsis (Echinopsis hertrichiana?)

Anyone want to guess the primary function of a cactus’s “spikes” or thorns?

Genus page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Echinopsis&rank=genus

Taken at the SIUC Plant Biology Greenhouse, http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/facilities/plant-biology-facilities/greenhouse/index.php

One year ago (“This glass is ‘two-halves empty’”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-02-18
Two years ago (“A ‘fun-house’-style twist on things?”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-02-18

[Rick Schies]

Just look at those patterns, very nice

[dave bennett]

very nice composition

[MaryBeth Dailey]

Wow! You are doing way better than me with this b and w thing., this rocks! Fav!

[Thom Mitchell]

@espyetta I got some great color shots in the greenhouse today, but I'm going to be disciplined and finish out the month in B&W! Wow; a FAV for a B&W cactus shot! Thanks, MaryBeth!

[MaryBeth Dailey]

@rhoing it is really cool! I am going to finish the month too! I need to find better textures!

[Thom Mitchell]

@espyetta As Rick has commented, I am very fortunate to have the greenhouse handy. Most days I park so that the greenhouse is between my car and my office! With hundreds of species of plants, it's like shooting fish in a barrel!