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Caption:

Close up of an Iceland Poppy (Papaver nudicaule) and foliage with a sky background.

Description:

This a close up image of an Iceland Poppy growing on my balcony in central Sofia

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Photo Comments:

I don’t believe that Bulgarian Stockphotos should feature only typical Bulgarian imagery.

Obviously Iceland poppies like these flourish in other locations.

Still, every year I go with my wife and son a few times to gather seeds and herbs from the mountains in Bulgaria.

I hasten to add – only when this is quite legal, avoiding the flowers and endangered species.

My son loves to gather seeds, I mostly concetrate on adding to my stock of landscape images.

Growing your own flowers mean that you can control the photography.

For this image I waited for appropriate light and weather when the flowers were open.

I set up my tripod using a 100mm Canon macro lens with mirror lockup and a remote control release with the self timer on.

Obviously the idea here is to avoid camera shake.

Flower pictures are hard to sell but I’ve had some success with these beautiful poppies.

There is a search engine problem, it’s a fact that some people come to my poppies looking for pictures of Iceland.

It’s not easy to avoid false positives like this.