Backlit Dandelion Gone to Seed Center Focus
by Rick Bures
Title
Backlit Dandelion Gone to Seed Center Focus
Artist
Rick Bures
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Backlit Dandelion Gone to Seed Center Focus. 6404x4221. A horizontal composition showing up close a dandelion gone to seed in silhouette, backlit by golden sunlight. The atmosphere of the photograph is of a warm, summer afternoon or evening. In this shot, the center of the dandelion is in focus. See also my similar shot in which the focus is shifted to the surface of the sphere of seeds. Flowers are used by plants for sexual reproduction. They contain the plant’s reproductive organs. The female organs are in the pistil, which is often a single center stalk within the blossom. The pistil is made up of the stigma, style, and ovary. The male reproductive organs are in the stamen. Often there are many stamens, each a filament with a bulb (anther) on the end, surrounding the pistil. On the anthers you find the pollen granules, each granule containing the plant’s sperm. The purpose bright colors and scents and nectar of the flower is to attract animals like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, so that the pollen can be transferred from the stamen to the pistil, or to the pistils of other flowers (even on other plants of the same species). In this way the ovum are fertilized and the plant’s fruit develops, containing the seeds which are the product of the plant’s sexual reproduction and will develop into adult plants. See also my many other photos of flowers and other plants, many of them close-ups.
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October 14th, 2017
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