Sunflower Courtship by taffy

Sunflower Courtship

I picked up three sunflowers at the farmers market this morning with plans to photograph them throughout the day in keeping with the August book club exercises for week 2 (identify an emotion and then try to capture it). To be honest, I didn't know what emotion I'd try to capture, but I had ideas for anthropomorphizing these flowers. I had massive attempts, some shots I liked, but none that I felt conveyed any feeling (I know, we're supposed to decide on the emotion in advance...I just was going with 'feelings'). While Jim and a neighbor watched the Bears game, I decided to do one last photo shoot at sunset. I carried the sunflowers down to the beach (they'd been down there a few other times today in my not successful shots) one more time. I was framing the setting sun when I noticed the leaves forming a heart -- snapped the shot and then hurried to download with fingers crossed. Ta-da! A nice way to end the day!
IF interested, the 'start of day' photo is in my main album: http://365project.org/taffy/365/2013-08-15.
Great low light shot. Love the silhouettes and the setting sun. I like Da Bears!:)
August 16th, 2013  
Cute title for the photo. I ♥ this!
August 16th, 2013  
Good job. It sounds like you really learned something by doing this. I have yet to do that one. I am a little behind.
August 16th, 2013  
Gorgeous!
August 16th, 2013  
Wow nice one! Great silhouettes and sun setting!
August 16th, 2013  
The silhouette is really captivating. The oranges in the sunset are beautiful and warm with a nice reflection of the sun below the "heart."
August 16th, 2013  
Love the silhouette against the evening sky.
August 16th, 2013  
love this!
August 16th, 2013  
I like the heart and the sun (and its reflection) on each side.
August 16th, 2013  
love the huge silhouettes against the colorful sunset---Superb concept !!
I've to google this word.'tho "anthropomorphizing"-:)
August 16th, 2013  
love the graphic nature of this - lovely colors too. Clever idea as well!
August 16th, 2013  
Fav! I love everything about this, the sunset, the silhouettes and the heart! Yes I needed a little help from google too, lol, I was familiar with the comsept of anthropomorphizing" but not with the word.
August 16th, 2013  
Awesome! Too beautiful.
August 16th, 2013  
fabulous!
August 16th, 2013  
What a hell of a job...lol but you made it!
August 16th, 2013  
Jo
The heart was the first thing I noticed - this is fab, well done.
August 16th, 2013  
Your perseverance paid off! Beautiful!
August 16th, 2013  
Gorgeous!
August 16th, 2013  
Fabulous sunset!! You worked hard for this shot Taffy and were rewarded with a wonderful image!! Love the silhouettes and the heart is perfect!!
August 16th, 2013  
Beautiful! I pulled 'love' and 'flowers' for my TAG challenge --- your photo is just perfect for that! I like your write-up too!
August 16th, 2013  
Love this sunset pic!
August 16th, 2013  
Really cool final product, and gorgeous silhouettes!
August 16th, 2013  
It might not fit the Freeman exercise per se, but I think you gave yourself a nice challenge and came out with an unexpected but lovely picture after all. Very pretty!
August 17th, 2013  
I always enjoy reading your descriptions of the process -- how cool that this heart unexpectedly revealed itself!
August 17th, 2013  
so cool, you know I love these
August 17th, 2013  
What a great way to end your attempt at capturing an emotion . . . with the added bonus of the flowers cooperating with a heart to show! Lovely silhouette.
August 18th, 2013  
Gorgeous shot! Great colors and title
August 19th, 2013  
beautiful shot Taffy
August 19th, 2013  
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