Stamen Power by stray_shooter

Stamen Power

These are wild flowers in the wildlife sanctuary near my work. I thought they looked like the little fuzzy balls on the winter caps that I wore as a child.
Beatiful
April 11th, 2014  
Lovely close up detail... great colour contrasts...
April 11th, 2014  
Good job keeping the detail in those whites - so easy to blow them out in bright conditions.
April 11th, 2014  
Stunning capture Ron, beautiful colours, detail and dof, great positioning of the stamen in the image, looks like a fried egg to me before flipping for over easy;)
April 11th, 2014  
Nice capture, the stamens are probably a little more attractive and interesting than the petals.
April 11th, 2014  
Wow, an exceptional capture of these flowers, especially those stamens! The focus is just spot on! :)
April 11th, 2014  
Помпончик из тычинок! Супер!
April 11th, 2014  
Spot on shot Ron
April 11th, 2014  
That's a real beauty Ron - great DOF!
April 12th, 2014  
That is one bright "pom-pom" this flower's got. Must be a real bee-attracter. Brilliant color, especially considering the pic looks to be taken in bright sunlight.

lol... 'rivergull'. Hadn't thought about that but it's true — there's no sea around here for hundreds of miles! You're so on top of things.
April 12th, 2014  
@daisyjuds @ourrube @pjtphoto Thank You for the positive comments. Very encouraging.
April 14th, 2014  
@pcoulson Thanks, Peter. Great observation - it does look like a "sunny side up" egg (although I prefer mine over hard).
@dianeburns Yeah, I did have a hard time finding any with petals that didn't look all wilted. Those that did didn't have such interesting stamen. I should have photoshopped the best of both!
April 14th, 2014  
@lilminimonka @terryliv @marmaladeskyes Thank You kindly. All I did was let the camera focus on the stamen. I give the camera and the auto focus all of the credit. (And that's hard for me - I've just recently given in to not going manual.) Failing eye sight is a factor too!
April 14th, 2014  
@simta Спасибо Татьяна. Я никогда не видел тычинки, как это раньше. Странно, но довольно.
April 14th, 2014  
@lyndemc Pom pom - that's what I was trying to think of! I'd probably get a better tag match over my choice of fuzzy-balls. Yes, the shot was taken on a bright sunny day. I'm actually a little surprised, as this wasn't shot with the "good" camera. Actually all of my "non-good" camera shots seem to turn out better than the so-called good camera. There's this week's goal - a good shot with the good camera!
April 14th, 2014  
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