Sunflowers Galore
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Sunflowers Galore
Artist
Catherine Sherman
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Sunflowers Galore" by Catherine Sherman.
Row after row of sunflowers bloom in a Kansas field near the city of Lawrence in Douglas County. A million sunflowers bloom in all of the fields of Grinter Farms.
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.
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.
Featured in "Landscape and Landmark Photography" group (09/11/2015); "3 a Day AAA Images" group (09/11/2015); "1 a Day Waiting Room Art" group (09/12/2015); "Images That Excite You" group (09/13/2015); "First Friday Gallery" group (09/14/2015); "Midwest America Photography" group (09/14/2015); "Waiting Room Art" group (09/15/2015); "All Art Welcome" group (09/22/2015); "Kansas - Showing Off Our Great State" group (11/04/2015); "500 And Beyond Fine Art" group (06/01/2017); "500 Views - 1 Image a day" group (06/09/2017); "ABC Group M IS FOR MANY" (12/23/2018); "1000 Views - One Per day" gorup (08/05/2019); "USA Photographers Only" group (05/15/2020)
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September 11th, 2015
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Comments (26)
Judy Vincent
Beautiful capture! This will be the “Yellow Flowers” photo of the day on the USA Photographers group home page for 5/15/2020!
Christopher James
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #11 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your marvelous art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC Group. This art has been selected from the ABC Group's M IS FOR MANY themed week. You are invited to add this wonderful art to the features archive discussions and in another discussion in ABC Group!
Lynn Sprowl
Catherine this is an amazing shot! Colorful and detailed. The bloom, stalks and the sky...all vivid! l/f
Elizabeth Sullivan
Oh, my gosh. So much fun! Makes me want to run right through them! BEAUtiful. f&v
Stephen Killeen
Millions of sunflowers... like a colorful yellow, green and orange and gold explosion! wow! so amazing... L/F :)))
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