Gazania Rising

Artist: LouJay
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Gazania Rising

These are irresistible ‘weeds’ from South Africa, all along the roadsides around Western Australian wheatbelt towns. I’ve got to say, shamefully that I will be grabbing some plants and bringing them home. Should I be admitting to this?? I reckon an avenue of them lining our 90 metre driveway would be an amazing spring feast of orange and gold to welcome me home! They are so graphic, I’m sure I could design a funky T-shirt with them…..

Featured in ‘WA Redbubbles’, October 2009

Pingelly Western Australia
October

Fujifilm finepix S1500, auto and super macro settings

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dinghysailor1

beautifully crisp and colourful closeup capture! cant believe these are weeds.. they are so tender here we buy them singly in pots…
LouJay replied

Heh heh! We could start a Gardeners Accross the Globe group! Honestly, these grow on roadsides with no more water than the 450mm or less we get per year!
Haydee Yordan...

Very crisp, very colorful…. interesting image… the composition suggest a lot. I like this.
LouJay replied

hank you Haydee. My husband and I disagree on this one – he feel that it should have the whole semicircle. I didn’t capture it that way, so I can’t achieve the whole semicircle. But aren’t we all different? He likes completeness and symmetry, and I like irregularity and balanced asymmetry!
Peacefulwarrior
LouJay replied

Oh Wow! Thank you very much for the feature! What a buzz.
Haydee Yordan...

Lou… perhaps this is why I found it an interesting image and found there is a lot suggested in the composition…. one feel like wanting to see the rest of the flower…Haydee
Kim Calvert

Wow such vibrant and beautiful colors..great shot..and congrats on the feature!!
LouJay replied

Thank you Kim!
Ellen about 1 month ago

Very beautiful close-up, and excellent colors!
LouJay replied about 1 month ago

Thank you Ellen for your kind comment!
Munggo about 1 month ago

Stunner, well shot.
LouJay replied about 1 month ago

Thank you very much!
Paulo van Breugel 29 days ago

Nice pic. Funny, I often have the same kind of reaction on pictures from my wife, which also boils down mostly to differences in how we like to look at shapes and composition.
LouJay replied 29 days ago

Thanks Paolo. It is interesting, the differences in peoples preferences in aesthetic matters! I wonder if there is a relationship between liking asymmetry and having a preference for odd numbers, liking symmetry and having an inclination towards even numbers?? I have a love of the number 3,and the number 9, with also an affection for 7. My husband likes 2 and 4. Who knows!
Naia 13 days ago

like a sunrise… with eyes! they are also “weeds” on many verges and median strips of the northern suburbs of Perth, especially the sandier ones. an amazingly resilient plant, with flowers of so many colours. They don’t mind being mowed, driven over. I think they are beautiful but can’t grow them at my place, they don’t like clay and shade.
great photo
LouJay replied 13 days ago

Thanks Nonie. Interestingly, they seem to love our hard baked clay around here! shade no.
Angela Legge 1 day ago

Hi LouJay, I like this one…looks like the sun rising…just love the angles you work your photographs on…Cheers Ange
LouJay replied 1 day ago

Thank you very much Ange!