Flowers of chives

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:30 pm

Full frame, 21 mm width.

Crop of the above, at 80% pixels.

I've been doing too much other stuff lately, so today I decided to treat myself to a little photo session.

These are the flowers of common garden chives. I just thought they were pretty. Hope you enjoy them too!

--Rik

Technical: Canon 300D camera with Olympus 80 mm f/4 bellows lens at f/11, dual fiber halogen illumination with Kleenex tissue diffusers, ISO 100 at 1/5 second, 39 frames at 0.020" spacing, Zerene Stacker PMax, no retouching.

Edit: to fix broken links.

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:41 am

A treat and a revelation. When we grow chives they get chopped and eaten long before they have a chance to flower. Maybe not next time.

Harold

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:29 am

Thanks, Harold! I know you're a flower photographer, so I'm very pleased to hear you like this image.

--Rik

Aynia · Post by **Aynia** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:59 am

They are very pretty.

Mine not out yet either. They appear to be much lighter than ours too.

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:27 am

Thanks, Aynia.

I took another look at the flowers outside in my garden. The whole heads give an appearance of being a bit darker and more purple than what I'm showing above. I think maybe the color shifts as the flowers age. The ones I'm showing here are more like the center flowers in this image at Wikipedia.

--Rik

kds315* · Post by kds315* » Wed May 13, 2009 12:14 pm

Excellent work Rick!!

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Thu May 14, 2009 12:59 am

rjlittlefield wrote:Thanks, Harold! I know you're a flower photographer, so I'm very pleased to hear you like this image.

Straying outside the macro range, many Allium species/varieties have geometrically pleasing, e.g. spherical, inflorescences, often also strikingly coloured. The shapes persist for the seed heads.

Harold