Submitter's name:	Brian Swale
Title:	Brown Top grass flowers in a vase
Gear used:	OM-4Ti + Sigma 90/2.8 macro + tripod.
Diaphragm:	f/8
Shutter speed:	1/1500
Film used:	Fuji Superia Reala 100 asa print film
Technical information:	An open window used to frame the picture. Light wind was a problem all the time with this very light and delicate subject, and I could not use the self-timer and associated prefire aperture stop-down and mirror lift because of this.
Subject information:	Brown Top, (Agrostis tenuis) is a favourite grass for me. Its extremely fine and delicate flower-heads are like a vague brown-purplish fog over rough grazing land which bring recall of many memories, and which is typical of some countryside here. It is also a tough survivor in many sites.
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Comment left by: Bill Barber (nsurit@aol.com)

This looks like a painting. Nicely done. Simple composition and lighting.

Comment left by: Piers Hemy (no e-mail specified)

Very pleasing, well composed and exposed. Are the vertical stripes intentional? Simplicity?

Comment left by: Photographer (no e-mail specified)

The vertical stripes are part of the scenery ! The picture was shot through my daughter's open bedroom window with the vase on the sill and the stripes are due to the manner in which the pendant, out-of-focus curtain behind the sill, hangs. I think this non-uniform background takes some potential boredom away from the whole composition.

Comment left by: brian swales (brianswales3@hotmail.com)

nice one bri liked the other one as well

Comment left by: David Carter (camra@free.net.nz)

nice.

Comment left by: Brian Swale (no e-mail specified)

My objective in part when I made this shot was to take a simple subject (two heads of grass flowers, in a vase), and then demonstrate that what seems on the face of it to be simple, also can be complex. The delicate and fine tracery of many tiny individual flowers on their own small stems seems to contradict the idea of simplicity. The continuously varying background, on closer examination, is also not all than simple. Even the blue-white line (window-ledge) on which the image rests is not straight-forwardly simple, yet it is just a bar of painted steel. A bit like a fractal image - the more you look into it the less simple it seems, even though at first glance, maybe, it is simple..

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