Prickly pear cactus heavy with ripe tunas, Desert Garden - San Marino : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Prickly pear cactus heavy with ripe tunas, Desert Garden - San Marino / dalecruse
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Deep magenta tunas ring the edges of flattened paddle segments, the fruit of a mature prickly pear well past flowering and fully into its winter fruiting stage. Each fruit still carries the telltale crown of glochids at its blossom end, the fine, barbed hairs that make handling an unprotected prickly pear a genuinely bad idea despite how approachable the fruit looks in a photograph. Sunlight raking low across the pads picks out the spine clusters in sharp relief while leaving the fruit itself glowing with a slight translucence at its edges.Getting close enough for this kind of detail shot in a cactus collection is a study in restraint - moving slowly, watching where a hand or a knee might land, framing tight without brushing against anything. The reward is a composition where the graphic language of the plant does the work: pad shape repeating pad shape, punctuated by clusters of near-black spines and studded all along the margins with fruit in a color no cultivated garden flower quite matches.The Huntington's Desert Garden is one of the oldest and most extensive succulent collections in the world, planted starting in the early 1900s and still expanding, and prickly pear in its many forms is one of the collection's most reliably photogenic residents across nearly every season, whether in spring flower, summer green, or heavy with fruit like this. |
| 撮影日 | 2018-01-15 13:53:11 |
| 撮影者 | dalecruse , San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| カメラ | ILCE-7M2 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.011 sec (1/90) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.7 |
| 焦点距離 | 70 mm |