Wildflower series - autumn stragglers
Clematopsis Scabiosifolia or Pluimbossie, which translates to plume bush, is named for the feathery seeds. By now, they are looking a little tatty and I was lying on my back in among the rocks to shoot this one against a clear background. Otherwise, everything just gets lost in the autumn brown-ness of it all.
This is a picture I took earlier on in the season, when the seeds were still fresh. I missed the flowers, though; next January or February I may get luckier.
Here, I was playing with the editing of the first image. The first image is unedited, which do you prefer?
Beautiful pictures!
I looked them several times to decide which one I like best.
In the comments some liked the edited photo, some natural.
Do not know if you agree with my opinion, but I like the sky on the edited photo (the flower looks better), and the bottom part of the photo is more like in a natural way.
I'm interested to see your photo in such a combination.
I'm honestly not sure which shot I prefer.....they are both great!
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose I would go with the edited one I think :-)
Thanks! Seems the editing won. I couldn't decide
Interesting plants. As if heads with hair growing on them.
Actually, I like what you've done in the edited photo, I like the sky as the background.
I like it too. The blue is almost too intense in the unedited picture but the sky is wonderfully clear at the moment
I love wildflowers, but these are exceptional!
Thank you!
Wow!
I think I prefer the unedited version. I've never seen this bush before; it's quite amazing. The texture is like string. I wonder how they'd grow in Melbourne? (Probably fine in the more temperate parts I'd imagine. I think from memory Melb and Cape Town are on the same ... whatever it is. Latitude or longitude. But I know you're in Joberg though :)
The edited photo looks better. It really brings out the flowing feeling as though it is dancing in the wind.
It is a more dreamy look
Those are some cool looking seed pods... remind me a bit of certain kinds of starfish. So do you get much fall colour/leaves turning in South Africa? Or is it more like the southern US where we used to be and things went more or less from green to "dead."
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Pertty much green to brown. We don't have that many deciduous indigenous trees here and the brown is just the grassland drying up. And then we have fires :(
very nice picture
They look like jellyfish on the second photo...