Sticky

Sticky

LAPC #44: Harmony

(or is it dissonance?)

Trapped Leaf

Trapped leaf

Side view of a leaf trapped in the spines on the side of a cactus.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: View From the Side.

Cactus Flowers before and after Redux – B&W

Vibrant Cactus Flowers in monochrome

Spent Cactus Flowers in monochrome

Allan of sweet ohm CA suggested a black and white treatment of the cactus flowers in my previous post might look good. Sounded interesting so here’s a re-do.

 

Cactus Flowers before and after

Vibrant Cactus Flowers

Spent Cactus Flowers

The first image is of impressive cactus flowers captured in the morning. The second, a scant few hours later, is of the same flowers that afternoon. What an amazing change in so short a time.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Letters K or L

Backlit silver torch

L is for light (backlighting, to be specific) and K is for kaktus (er, in German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, … you get the idea 😉 ).

More monochrome Ls and Ks.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Dense

Dense Spines

A dense mass of spines in a stand of Sliver (a.k.a, Wooly) Torch cactus (Cleistocactus Strausii).

Weekly Photo Challenge – Muse

The question in this week’s challenge (“What subject keeps you coming back?”) had me scratching my head until it occurred to me that recently I have been (ahem) stuck on cacti (prickly pear to be specific). Here are some examples for your aMUSEment.

Cacti