4 1/2 inches! Wow. It must be spectacular to blow those fluffs into the wind. Glad to hear, despite your health challenges, you are keeping your photography going. I found I can keep the dust off my traditional camera by keeping them in a drawer.Hi, Starzee,
Dandelion?
Nope! Close but “No cigar!” A close relative, however! That puffball seed head is much larger than a dandelion’s - about 4 1/2” in diameter!
here’s the flower that give rise to that immense seed head:View attachment 160804f
I’m a retired veterinary pathologist, wildlife disease diagnostician and researcher, and avocational photographer since 1948. Started with home-made dry plates (glass) in an heirloom 5x7 view camera and have lately become fascinated with full DR raw captures via EBTR with my iPhone11ProMax and the Lightroom Mobile app. The 12 bit-depth files with increased tonal spectrum permit incredibly detailed large blow-ups(24”x36”) is the largest I’ve tried so far. I’m hoping to learn more of the limits of smartphone photography.
My stable of traditional SLRs (Exaktas) and DSLRs (Sony’s) and lenses is getting embarrassingly dusty! Parkinsonian with associated neuromuscular tremors and impaired locomotion d.t. Progressive sensory/motor peripheral neuropathy have relegated me to Forster crutches and a wheel chair, but I can still safely drive!
I’ve come to appreciate Ed Weston’s quip to Ansel Adams that “...anything more than 6 feet from the car is not photogenic!”Thanks for the welcome!
Best regards,
Dave
That made me laugh.anything more than 6 feet from the car is not photogenic!
Ah come on... I was working an an answer and you've given the game away. Not that I'd have got it, I was using wikipedia and checking out Taraxacum without much luck. I'd have given up on Cichorieae, too wide a tribe....is a relative of the dandelion called “Salsify”
Ah come on... I was working an an answer and you've given the game away. Not that I'd have got it, I was using wikipedia and checking out Taraxacum without much luck. I'd have given up on Cichorieae, too wide a tribe.
Never mind, as long as I've not missed out on any prizes of course.
Welcome by the way.
It's a made up name. A kids name for a zombie.Never encountered it as a proper name.
I was thinking that, too!Welcome to Mobitog Dave Uuglypher nice images, looks like you'll fit in really well here
I am super impressed with your artistry!!!.It's a made up name. A kids name for a zombie.
I used to draw zombies in class as a kid with my mate when we should have been paying attention to the lesson (geography and history bored me deeply). One of the zombies was called Gog Rizole for no particular reason. Years later, when I came to sign up for my first email address in the late 90's my real name was already taken. I'd kept rizole around and developed the character as I got older so it was the first thing that came into my head.
I've been rizole online ever since
I've been counting. Back then when you googled "rizole" there were 13 instances of the word returned, most food related. in 2005 there were 305 and I was the top search result. 2015 there were 10,600 and I was the second top search result. Today there's 59,200 and top results are for a drug. I'm relegated to the second page and that's just my slashdot account, you have to look a lot harder to find my creative output on the web these days.
But I'm attached to the name now. It's unusual, short and memorable.
Funnily enough I've been going through some old paper memories I took down from the attic today and this is in there. This is what Gog Rizole started out as before he got a name. I'd have been maybe 11 or 12 when I did this.
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He'd turned into this a couple of years later.
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And by the time I'd hit my early 20's (and got my first email) he looked like this.
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So not Italian, just very childish and silly.
And I'll get over not having a prize. I may be childish and silly but I'm not that bad.
TYVM. Heavily influenced by Giger, Greys Anatomy and M.C Escher in my youth.I am super impressed with your artistry!!!.
It's a made up name. A kids name for a zombie.
I used to draw zombies in class as a kid with my mate when we should have been paying attention to the lesson (geography and history bored me deeply). One of the zombies was called Gog Rizole for no particular reason. Years later, when I came to sign up for my first email address in the late 90's my real name was already taken. I'd kept rizole around and developed the character as I got older so it was the first thing that came into my head.
I've been rizole online ever since
I've been counting. Back then when you googled "rizole" there were 13 instances of the word returned, most food related. in 2005 there were 305 and I was the top search result. 2015 there were 10,600 and I was the second top search result. Today there's 59,200 and top results are for a drug. I'm relegated to the second page and that's just my slashdot account, you have to look a lot harder to find my creative output on the web these days.
But I'm attached to the name now. It's unusual, short and memorable.
Funnily enough I've been going through some old paper memories I took down from the attic today and this is in there. This is what Gog Rizole started out as before he got a name. I'd have been maybe 11 or 12 when I did this.
View attachment 160809
He'd turned into this a couple of years later.
View attachment 160810
And by the time I'd hit my early 20's (and got my first email) he looked like this.
View attachment 160811
So not Italian, just very childish and silly.
And I'll get over not having a prize. I may be childish and silly but I'm not that bad.
Thank you.Wow!
That last one done in your twenties!
Amazing work! Scratch board and pen ‘n’ ink?
Downright masterful accomplishment!
I’m in awe!
Dave
Whatever-bottom line? The creator of that piece was a master of the technique used!Thank you.
Paper, pen, ink and permanent marker. Later scanned and adjusted in photoshop to get the dark negative space a more consistent black and abit more contrast into the picture.
Who knew!! I would have sworn it was a dandelion!Hi, Starzee,
Dandelion?
Nope! Close but “No cigar!” A close relative, however! That puffball seed head is much larger than a dandelion’s - about 4 1/2” in diameter!
here’s the flower that give rise to that immense seed
Oh yes! I’ve heard of salsify! Or maybe read it in a novel... in any case, now I’ve seen one thanks to you.To break the palpable suspense, the plant in question is a relative of the dandelion called “Salsify”, some varieties of which are cultivated for their edible roots... seeds are commercially available. Another name is “goatsbeard” (Tragopogon dubius)
hi,Rose, Thank you for your comments.Oh yes! I’ve heard of salsify! Or maybe read it in a novel... in any case, now I’ve seen one thanks to you.