On 6/13/2010 4:57 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I forgot to ask whether you know what the flower is. Maybe not so unusual on
> the Pacific coast but very unusual looking from this distance.
>
It's a thistle. There are several varieties of thistle in the area.
Here's the same one sans bee and with quite different perspective, 200mm
vs. 28mm AOV.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Point_Reyes/&image=_MG_0008ia.jpg>
Close in is clearer, with nicer luminance range/distribution than with
the G11.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Point_Reyes/&image=_MG_0008fpia.jpg>
Here's another sort.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Point_Reyes/&image=_MG_0024ia.jpg>
I haven't decided if I like the FF or this almost square crop.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Point_Reyes/&image=_MG_0024cria.jpg>
Full pixel is rather pretty.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Point_Reyes/&image=_MG_0024fpiashi.jpg>
Other than looking like eyestalks of some alien visitor, these seem like
the first one, but for the dark centers.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Point_Reyes/&image=_MG_0152cria.jpg>
There is yet another common one, tall, with multiple small flowers per
stalk. I don't seem to have a clear shot of them, although they are OOF
on the left of the image just above.
Prickly Moose
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