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My Photo-Walk - July 2012

In July I went on a photo-walk. For those who don't know, that's where I go to a specific place with the sole intention of taking photographs . . . and here they be.

The area is an undeveloped subdivision. The roads are blocked off to car traffic, but people take their walks there. Slowly nature is reclaiming the place.
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Overgrowth on the median, and Pikes Peak in the distance.
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Overgrowth on the median, and Pikes Peak in the distance.

Common Mullein FlowersVerbascum thapsusPikes Peak view

  • Overgrowth on the median, and Pikes Peak in the distance.
  • Same shot, in color.
  • Same road, a bit farther down, and shot from the shoulder.
  • Guess what? Same shot in dramatic B&W.
  • A onOne Software treatment of a common sunflower plant.
  • A Lightroom treatment of another sunflower plant.
  • Same shot without the artsy-like border
  • Amadeus!!! . . . how could you . . .
  • Wait . . . I bet this is a forgery. I think Amadeus died a while back.
  • The prevalent plants are grasses. All sorts of grasses.
  • I think this is rye . . . or not. <br /> <br /> I don't smoke the stuff, so I'm not familiar with the different varieties.
  • Many are flowering plants. These are very small flowers I can't be bothered to identify. The flower itself is about a quarter inch round.
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  • I walked by this plant countless times, and never notices something . . . it's leaking. This is a gumweed plant.
  • This plant occupied about forty minutes of my time out and about.
  • The number of insects swarming about it was incredible.
  • It was near impossible to find a flower without a bug on it . . . except if the bug flew off just as one snapped a picture.
  • This Sweat bee was hitting damn near every flower.
  • And there, on one of the flowers, what do I see? A Northern Crab Spider. Small thing. The flowers were maybe a inch round, and this guy blended in very nicely.
  • I actually shot some videos of it moving about, but it was windy, and the thing is too shaky to show.
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