Obvious sunflowers

[Akira]

Conifers produce large-sized pollen grains that usually are too big to cause allergies. But transforming the landscape into monocultures is an ecologically unfriendly and thereby short-sighted idea, in that we both agree.

Cryptomeria japonica and Chamaecyparis obtusa are widespread connifers in Japan whose pollen are two of the major causes of our pollen allergy, me included.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

OK, you have different species. Over here 40% of the countryside is Pices abies and Pinus sylvestris. Their pollen production is massive to colour lakes and rivers and lies as a yellow dust everywhere. Despite all this, nobody reacts allergic to them.

[Mikes]

Cryptomeria japonica and Chamaecyparis obtusa are widespread connifers in Japan whose pollen are two of the major causes of our pollen allergy, me included.

Me too. Not pleasant!

Fascinating image - it must be a spectacular sight!

[Akira]

Me too. Not pleasant!

Ah, sorry about that, Mike!

[pluton]

The first one has a buzzy, hypnotic effect due to the gradual reduction in the size of the flowers, going away from the camera.

[Tristin]

The first image i find very hypnotic, very into it!  In the second image I feel the hills/road/poles is a distraction, wish it were cropped to show nothing but the flowers.

[elsid]

A   feast for the eyes. The first one takes you away (I am trying to decide where).

[golunvolo]

Thank you all for your input.

  Tristin, I tried the crop you suggested but I still prefer the one posted here. Please, feel free to post your version if you want.

[Tristin]

My commentary on the second image was un-necessary to be honest.  I'm a "one image of a scene" kind of guy anyhow, so I would have left it to the first image.  That's just me though.   

[Lowell]

Tristin,

I appreciated your comment.  Your view is interesting to me.  Starting from the point, that this is precisely what I was going to say about the first image and why I like the second image.  That got me thinking about my impression.

[golunvolo]

My commentary on the second image was un-necessary to be honest.  I'm a "one image of a scene" kind of guy anyhow, so I would have left it to the first image.  That's just me though.   

  Interesting. It usually takes me a loooot of pictures before I realize what call my attention in the first place. Sometimes -happy times- more than one do justice or show different suitable parts of the whole.
   Sometimes it doesn´t happen...

   Even being my own editor it is not easy to pick just "the one". Working on it thou

[Jørgen Ramskov]

Impressive scene. I slightly favor the first shot.