Afternoon in the Sun
by Bruce Bley
Title
Afternoon in the Sun
Artist
Bruce Bley
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This image of a Rudbeckia image was taken while visiting the St. Louis Zoo in St. Louis, Missouri this past summer. This is just a small portion of a rather large grouping of these flowers. I liked how the light played on the head of the flower, highlighting the detail on the head.
Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed-Susan, is a North American species of flowering plants in the sunflower family, native to the Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China.
Rudbeckia hirta is one of a number of plants with the common name black-eyed Susan. Other common names for this plant include: brown-eyed Susan, brown betty, gloriosa daisy, golden Jerusalem, English bull's eye, poor-land daisy, yellow daisy, and yellow ox-eye daisy.
Rudbeckia hirta is an upright annual (sometimes biennial or perennial) growing 12-39 in tall by 12-18 in wide. It has alternate, mostly basal leaves, covered by coarse hair, with stout branching stems and daisy-like, composite flower heads appearing in late summer and early autumn. In the species, the flowers are up to 4 inches in diameter, with yellow ray florets circling conspicuous brown or black or in this case green dome-shaped cone of many small disc florets.
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June 25th, 2017
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Mary Ann Weger
Congratulations! Your beautiful work has been featured in the Fine Art America group “FAA- Pixels All Stars”! You are invited to archive your featured image for permanent storage and for viewing on the Discussions Page—topic name: “3--OPEN--All Star Featured Archives & Thank You Thread & List of Artists”. Simply copy your image’s URL at the top of your image’s profile page, and paste it into the Discussion Page theme as noted above. Group URL: https://fineartamerica.com/groups/f-a-a--pixels-all-stars.html
Bruce Bley replied:
Thank you for the feature in the group "FAA- Pixels All Stars”, Mary. I sincerely appreciate the honor.
Bruce Bley
David, I am grateful for the feature in the group "Midwest America Photography". Thank you so much for the honor.
Bruce Bley
Judy, Thank you for the feature in the group "USA Photographers Only". I sincerely appreciate it.
Bruce Bley
John, I am grateful for the feature in the group "Images That Excite You". Thank you so much.
Bruce Bley
Dora, I wan to thank you for the feature in the group "Visions Of Spring - Glances Of Summer". I sincerely appreciate the honor and thank you for the your support of my work.
Bruce Bley
Nader theank you again for the feature in the group "Exploration Photography". I appreciate the honor.
Bruce Bley
Kim, I want to thank you for the feature in the group "Flora". I appreciate it very much.
Jasna Dragun
Congratulations on your feature in the "Global Flowers Photography" and "Pick Of The Day" 26.06. !! l/f/fb
Bruce Bley replied:
Jasna, I am grateful for the feature in the group "Global Flowers Photography" and thank you for selecting this image as your Pick Of The Day. I sincerely appreciate it.
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