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Wild Artichoke Habitat
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Challenge: Rural Landscapes II (Basic Editing)
Collection: Flowers, Trees & Leaves
Camera: Pentax K200D
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Pentax
Location: Solano County, California
Date: Jun 28, 2008
Aperture: f/14
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Landscape, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 29, 2008

 Wild artichoke(cynara cardunculus) growing near a freeway exit in rural Solano County. More about the choke than the landscape, but the Northern California fires killed the skies this week, and without a dramatic sky most landscapes fell flat.

I had some other more close up pics of these plants that I liked a bit better compositionally, but used this one for the challenge because it showed the landscape in the background. Still expecting a 5.2 with a fair number of "that's not a landscape -DNMC" type comments. Oh well. I'm tired of trying to appeal to the masses (usually unsuccessfully), so I've gone back to just appealing to myself and rolling the dice ...

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Statistics
Place: 68 out of 207
Avg (all users): 5.7650
Avg (commenters): 7.6667
Avg (participants): 5.5741
Avg (non-participants): 5.8356
Views since voting: 3705
Views during voting: 296
Votes: 200
Comments: 5
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 07/09/2008 02:20:36 AM
A great image - I am quite surprised this did not finish higher - very good work with a lovely soft quality to the shot
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 07/09/2008 02:19:23 AM
from me in Posthumous Ribbons

Love the colours and patterns in this, the Artichoke is very striking. The trail of colours into the photo is great as well.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/05/2008 09:00:47 AM
splendid composition and choice of subject - the colors are so dynamic and the shallow DOF really gives this a three dimensional feel
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 07/04/2008 08:19:04 PM
That is very striking
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 07/04/2008 11:40:53 AM
Great color, sharpness & use of thirds.
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