ID please: Some sort of thistle?

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Some sort of thistle?

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BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

I of course cheated! Lol!
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-nigella-flower-seed-heads-taken-in-a-garden-in-norfolk-at-night-time-25320650.html https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-nigella-flower-seed-heads-taken-in-a-garden-in-norfolk-at-night-time-25320650.html

Edit: weird, I don’t know what Alamy is and certainly didn’t pay for the info. Oh well it does look like a good match.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Now that is one weird plant Linda, did you shoot it somewhere around home. I sure hope someone knows what it is.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

BassmanBruce wrote:

I of course cheated! Lol!
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-nigella-flower-seed-heads-taken-in-a-garden-in-norfolk-at-night-time-25320650.html https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-nigella-flower-seed-heads-taken-in-a-garden-in-norfolk-at-night-time-25320650.html

Edit: weird, I don’t know what Alamy is and certainly didn’t pay for the info. Oh well it does look like a good match.

You stumbled onto a stock photo site.

As for cheating, whatever works, eh?

Thanks so much. Now I'm thinking these were the flowers (photo taken a couple of weeks ago. Sometimes I don't pay as much attention as I should

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Curmudgeon wrote:

Now that is one weird plant Linda, did you shoot it somewhere around home. I sure hope someone knows what it is.

Bruce ID'd, I think. Yes, it - and the subsequent blossom photo I just posted - are in a messy little garden at the apartment complex where I'm currently living.

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Linda From Maine wrote:

As for cheating, whatever works, eh?

You bet!

As for your subject, I imagine there’s pretty endless lighting possibilities for some pretty neat shots!

carlysue Loc: Columbus

We here know it as "Love in the Mist", kinda like a small Batchelor Button. This is the pod after the bloom falls off. The pod will dry and you can plant the seeds (they are green at first and turn black)

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

BassmanBruce wrote:

You bet!

As for your subject, I imagine there’s pretty endless lighting possibilities for some pretty neat shots!

Not endless because they're in shadow in the afternoon and evening. Happily, my favorite time to shoot is early morning, and if I can, to use backlighting or side lighting.

Best to you, Bruce!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

carlysue wrote:

We here know it as "Love in the Mist", kinda like a small Batchelor Button. This is the pod after the bloom falls off. The pod will dry and you can plant the seeds (they are green at first and turn black)

Thanks so much, Carla.

dwmoar Loc: Oregon, Willamette Valley

carlysue wrote:

We here know it as "Love in the Mist", kinda like a small Batchelor Button. This is the pod after the bloom falls off. The pod will dry and you can plant the seeds (they are green at first and turn black)

+1 for Love in a mist or sometimes called Devil in the Bush

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

The thistle is quietly dancing ... simplicity and complication combined.

The photo of flowers would make a great wall paper for the holding room in an insane asylum... If not insane, they soon would be setting staring at the flowers... they would soon be having a conversation with the wall paper.... WOW, so calming [NOT].

The flowers is one of those photos that one likes but with long viewing may well not like... it is so colorful but so very busy

... From a photographer/artist view it is a great canvas... Kudos Linda. Multi

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

dpullum wrote:

The thistle is quietly dancing ... simplicity and ... (show quote)

Thank you kindly, Don 🥰

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice photo, Linda, but I have never seen anything like that here in the Midwest.

alexol

Like that very much and would certainly make a challenging jigsaw puzzle!

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Linda From Maine wrote:

Some sort of thistle?

Looks like something out of “ The Little Shop of Horrors”.

Stan