A Poppy in the Corn. Summer?

[John Geerts]

Often seen here as a summer symbol. A Poppy in the corn.

[BillO]

I really like the color contrast between flower and background.

The only thing that I might wish would be a little closer to the bloom to smear the background more, but recognize that's not always possible.

[Tristin]

Beautiful image!  I love the depth and color.  What lens?

[John Geerts]

Thanks Bill and Tristin.

It was a bit of difficult situation. It was actually a very small field, and partly unreachable because it was fenced and close to a construction site.  (Bad weather was approaching rapidly so much time was not left)

The Poppy is a large flower and you need a larger DOF to get it fully sharp (which was the intention). That has penalties for the (small) background in terms of blur and unsharpness (bokeh).

Tried a few lenses (shot below is with the Angenieux 35-70/2.5 showing the small area) and made this one with the Nikkor 200/2.0 ED IF AI  (I was lucky to purchase the lens at a very discounted price and sold the 80-200/2.8 to get it)

[Tristin]

An extraordinary lens that I hope to own one day!

[elsa hoffmann]

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye...

Poppys are beautiful flowers and some of my favourites

[knb]

The contrast is striking, but I am especially pleased with how you have presented the rye(?) crop. I like it.

[John Geerts]

Thanks Elsa and Kjetil.

[rosko]

Nice one, John !

I specially like the ear of corn emerging from the green background.

I didn't shoot one yet this year.

 

[BW]

Very nice John! We should had a summer thread to show all these nice pictures of signs of summer

[John Geerts]

Thanks Francis and Børge.

Good idea. What is the start of summer?  Here in my garden the Golden chain tree lost all it's flowers leaving a yellow path.  Normally happening around end of May/ begin June. In Norway temperatures exploded?