Sunflower with sky_closer

A few years ago, I saw some sunflower seeds at the local store and decided I wanted to plant some.  My brother and I planted some one year when we were kids, and loved seeing them grow and turn into beautiful, huge flowers.  They were so fun and colorful, that I wanted to try to grow some in suburbia where I now live.  So, I bought the sunflower seeds, and planted them around my house. 

In a couple of weeks, I had several plants growing along the front of the house, to the side of the garage.  They were bright yellow with orange centered leaves that looked like they had been burnt by the sun!  Each day after work, I would go out and check on them and marvel at how beautiful they were.  This is where the bug to photograph sunflowers originally bit me...right in my own front yard!

The photograph featured this week is one of the first sunflower photographs I had ever taken.  The sunflowers had grown much taller than me, so it was easy to photograph them with the beautiful blue sky behind them.  In one of the other sunflower pictures on my website, I had actually caught a bee flying to the sunflower.  I was so excited!!

As with most of my photographs, I did very little adjustments to this picture.  I cropped it so the sunflower was more center...the wind was blowing so it had blown a little off to the side.  I just love the vibrant colors that were available to me that day!  Hope you enjoy this picture as much as I have!

Until next week...

Dee