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Title
California Sunflower
Artist
Bill Gallagher
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
What could be happier than a California sunflower soaking up the California sun.
I was visiting some local wineries with my wife when I put this together. Maybe I was inspired by the wine that had been consumed at the previous winery, who knows. My wife had asked me to hold her glasses as she had to use the ladies room. This particular winery had a large diversity of plants in thier landscaping arrangement, roses, palm trees, assorted bushes, ponds and of course sunflowers.
This image actually was a little tougher to get than I thought it was going to be and even turned out to be a bit of a self portrait, look closely.
The sunflower is an annual flower native to North America. It has a large flowering head and gets it's name from the shape and color of it's flowering head.
Sunflower seeds were brought over to Europe in the 1600's to be used as sunflower oil for cooking.
Leaves of the sunflower can be used for cattle feed and while the fibre in the stems can be used for paper production.
The sunflower has been domesticated and harvested for thousands of years. It was first thought to be harvested in the southwestern part of the Unetd States. The earliest record of domesticated sunflowers was found in what is now Tennessee and ddate to around 2300 BC.
The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas and the national flower of the Ukraine.
During the early growth periods of the sunflower the flower head will follow the position of the sun across the sky. After the sun sets the heads slowly rotate east.
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August 20th, 2012
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St. Louis, MO - United States
Humorous California Sunflower photograph with great colors and composition!
Mumbai, Ma - India
Congratulations on being selected as Artist of the Week in the 1000 Views On 1 Image Group! Wonderful image! F
Port Orange, FL - United States
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups Special Features Nominations For Promotion #22 . Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views Group....L/F/Tw
Montvale, VA - United States
beautiful color, excellent, just adorable. L/F and nominating for special feature in 1000 Views group.
Langley, BC - Canada
Congrats Bill for being Artist of the week in 1000 views on 1 image Group!! Well deserved!!!
Western, IL - United States
Congratulations on being artist of the week in 1000 views! This image is so fun!:
Port Orange, FL - United States
You have been selected as Artist of the Week in the 1000 Views On 1 Image Group. Thank you for all the support you have rendered to this group.....It is greatly appreciated
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
So funny! Spectacular composition, lighting, shading, colors and artwork! F/L
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