Luke's Sunflower

I stopped by to visit with my favorite young farmer today to see how he made out in the storm. He was piling up the branches that had fallen down and said he lost some tomato plants, but that was about it. I admire his sunflowers every time I drive by, so today I took a photo of some of them.

[Jennifer C]

amazing that these survived the storm! lovely image laurie x

[robinwarner]

gorgeous vibrant color and i love the lil one in the background...i love sunflowers...such a happy plant

[Michelle Pippin Johnson]

Looks like the sunflowers survived beautifully! Is that a fuzzy bee I see on the big one? Lovely!

[CocoRose]

Beautiful pic Laurie especially with the bee, love the background too!

[lorihiro]

Wow it's shocking to see how well his sunflowers stood up against the Wrath of Irene! Love your POV, processing and the bee! Take care Laurie!

[Cherrill]

Fancy these tall beauties standing up against Irene. Glad to know some areas survived ok. Love your picture here and your processing. Good to know you're ok.

[Rose]

Laurie this is gorgoeus! I love the colour in it

[Rick Schies]

The sunflower looks quite strong, and it sounds like your friend was spared a lot of headache from the storm.

[Brian Buccigrossi]

Beautiful :)

[Kalexa]

Great sunflower shot and I like the little one in the background too. Good to hear the storm is behind you too.

[GINA]

oh wow.. beautiful site!!!! love those colors!!

[Peter Auliciems]

such brilliant happy colours

[Terry]

It looks like its on fire , great shot

[Yousef I]

another great shot!!
thanks so much for your encouraging words Laurie
I wanted to quit my project yesterday haha

[stephanie dp]

stunning! love the brilliant colors and the dof you chose. great bonus bokeh too!

[Kerri]

So beautiful

[Paula Cook-Farkas]

The colors are amazing here! And I love the one high up in the background.

Oh, and I wanted to post a link from Scooter, who I said had much cheaper extension tubes than me. This is the shot she took, and it's pretty amazing.
http://365project.org/scooter/365/2011-08-30

[Melissa Pike]

Gorgeous, vivid colors! Glad to hear your farmer friend didn't lose too much to the storm!

[☯ Sarah ☁]

Beautiful colours, love sunflowers :)

[Anne ❀]

such a happy pic, I love the colours and composition. glad both you and your farmer friend got through the storm ok.

[Beverly Carmichael]

You know I love the sunflowers. Nice color.

[Alecio]

Gorgeous capture