Kansas Sunflowers at Sunset

by Catherine Sherman

Title

Kansas Sunflowers at Sunset

Artist

Catherine Sherman

Medium

Photograph - Photography

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"Kansas Sunflowers at Sunset" by Catherine Sherman.

Thousands of sunflowers glow at sunset in a Kansas farm field near the city of Lawrence in Douglas County.

The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas, but it now grown around the world. The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas.

It's easy to see how the sunflower got its name with its petals that look like the rays of the sun. It also grows toward the sun.

Sunflowers were domesticated around 1000 B.C. Francisco Pizarro found the Incan people venerating the sunflower as an image of their sun god. Gold images of the flower, as well as seeds, were taken back to Europe early in the 16th century. The plant has a rough, hairy stem and large coarsely toothed, rough leaves, and circular flower heads. The heads consist of many individual flowers which mature into seeds, often in the hundreds, on a receptacle base. All parts of the sunflower are useful as either food or fiber.

1st place for the Contest - Kansas - The Sunflower State, August 2016 in the group "Kansas - Showing Off Our Great State"
Featured in "3 of Day Waiting Room Art" group (09/07/2104); "Beautiful Flowers" group (09/07/2014); "World of Sunflowers" group (09/07/2014); "CLOUDS Always the same but never the same" group (09/08/2014); "Midwest America" group (09/08/2014); "Flowers" group (09/14/2014); "The Light Painters" group (09/19/2014); "Premium FAA Artists" group (09/28/2014); "1 Weekly - ALL Starz" group (09/28/2014); Third Place finish in the "Midwest America" group contest, "Best of September 2014": "Photography Beauty of the USA 1 a Day" group (10/17/2014); "Vibrant Color Art" group (01/17/2015); "The World We See" group (01/18/2015); "Forever Gallery" group (04/13/2015); "All Natural Scenery Landscapes" group (04/27/2015); "500 Views Share Group" (05/13/2015); "Images That Excite you" group (05/26/2015); "Philanthropic Artists for a Cause" group (08/15/2015); "The Gallery Wall" group (09/06/2015); "First Friday Gallery" group (09/07/2015) "500 Views" group (09/09/2015); "1000 Views on 1 Image" group (09/10/2015): "Kansas - Showing Off Our Great State" group (08/23/2016); "FAA Collectors" group (09/30/2017); "Sunflower Power" group (12/1/2017); "Over 2,000 Views" group (06/01/2019); "Over 3,000 Views" group (06/25/2019); "Dimensions" group (05/29/2021); "USA Photographers Only" group (08/07/2022); "Over 5000 Views" group (12/27/2023)

FIRST PLACE finish out of 275 entries in the MIDWEST AMERICA PHOTOGRAPHERS Contest and on the HONORED GUEST ARTIST spotlight on the MIDWEST AMERICA PHOTOGRAPHY Group homepage (July 21, 2019); FIRST PLACE Sunrise or Sunset contest of 1,191 entries. (Aug. 21, 2019); "10,000 That's Ten Thousand Views and More" group (09/27/2022); FIRST PLACE TIE out of 407 photographs in the SUNFLOWERS CONTEST on (Oct. 20, 2022)

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September 7th, 2014

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