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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.

Caption:

An orange gerbera flower with a sky background in Bulgaria.

Description:

The Gerbera is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

It was named in honor of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber.

It has approximately 30 species in the wild.

The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J.D. Hooker in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine in 1889.

Gerbera species bear a large capitulum with striking, two-lipped ray florets in yellow, orange, white, pink or red colors.

The capitulum, which has the appearance of a single flower, is actually composed of hundreds of individual flowers.

The morphology of the flowers varies depending on their position in the capitulum.

Gerberas are very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers.

The domesticated cultivars are mostly a result of a cross between Gerbera jamesonii and another South African species Gerbera viridifolia.

The cross is known as Gerbera hybrida.

Thousands of cultivars exist. They vary greatly in shape and size.

Colors include white, yellow, orange, red, and pink.

The centre of the flower is sometimes black. Often the same flower can have petals of several different colors.

Gerberas are also important commercially.

They are the fifth most used cut flower in the world.

Photo Notes:

I enjoy flower photography.

I’m always looking for beautiful specimens and then looking to emphasise the beauty by good photo technique.

For this shot I used the Canon 100mm macro lens.

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