04-28-10 – Plants

Photograph plants, things that grow and don’t have a brain.

Things that don’t have a brain? You mean Democrats?

/with apologies to Bob Hope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k

hm. I hadn’t consider that personally. There’s one or two I’d like to consider, but hadn’t because of the insects or whatever that are in it – even if they are ancillary.

Actually, I flet like a little bug amidst the flora would be cool. It doesn’t happen that I’ll use one, but only because I figured everyone and their mother would be posting them. I strived for unique this time. (Okay, except for that one shot…)

hm. I hadn’t consider that personally. There’s one or two I’d like to consider, but hadn’t because of the insects or whatever that are in it – even if they are ancillary.

Actually, I flet like a little bug amidst the flora would be cool. It doesn’t happen that I’ll use one, but only because I figured everyone and their mother would be posting them. I strived for unique this time. (Okay, except for that one shot…)

I’m not a mod or anything (not even a punk…), so my opinion won’t count for much, but I don’t think that spider in the photo you posted in the gallery forum would disqualify your picture for this week’s competition.

Let me put it another way: after you mentioned it, I spent FIVE minutes trying to find the damn thing 😕 [/b]

I think seed pods (and dead plants for that matter) are fine..they’re plant parts and part of the plant life cycle.

As for living things being in the photo, I guess that depends on how central they are to the photo. The theme description doesn’t preclude other living things specifically, but I don’t think a kid smelling a rose or a macro of a bug chowing down on leaves (or mating on said leaves, for that matter) really is about the plant at that point, and that doesn’t really seem to be what the theme is going for. If the bug, animal, or human is truly incidental to the point where the composition does not depend on them, I’d think that was fair game.

Hmmm, okay that gives me some food for thought, and my choices more difficult =P

This one’s a bit close to that line – the pic would be cool without the bee, but it’s definitely better with it in the shot.
http://65.78.140.207/TF/farktography/100428.plants/silk_tree-0517_sm_web.JPG

Which makes me wonder, Elsinore, if I should include one of my three entries. The focus is plants (specifically flowers–*yawn*), but I’ve added camouflaged reptilian goodness, with hopes that an astute observer will notice. A little humor, so to speak, but not at all predominant in the composition; in fact, intentionally NOT predominant. (And technically, I didn’t add it–it was already there; I just made sure I carefully got it in the shot in the background.)

As for Olavf’s pic, it would seem to me that part of planthood is reproduction, and for a great many plants, that means insects. And you certainly must be correct about the casual farkers’ posts–I wouldn’t be surprised if someone shows up smoking weed because pot is a plant. My vote is so long as plants are the main gist, they should qualify. Where’s the theme suggester? I would think Clouddancer should get the final say-so, if available.

I’ve been glancing at this thread while working. I’m busy but want to throw in my 2 cents.

First, I decided to not use the pic I was considering. It was waaay closer to the line than Olavf’s. However, I disagree that O’s pic is beyond the line. Part of being a plant is having bugs and whatnot around. Consider these pics as plant portraits. Would you disqualify a human portrait if it had plants (or a car or camera or a pet) in it? No, other element can have meaning to the subject.

I hope I didn’t offend. I don’t really have time to do this buit I wanted to chime in.

See y’all tonight.