Chainfruit Cholla

Gallery: FloraPosted August 2, 201294 views11 comments

Supposedly you can eat the fruit if you are in a pinch! They keep their fruits in long chains as you can see here....year round! This view of the plant does not show some of it's more menacing spines. It is one of the meanest cacti out here!

ISO 500, 1/100, f7.1
tripod

Stack of 38 zerene
5D2 @100mm macro

C&C appreciated

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Mike Ramy on August 2, 2012 at 3:58 PM

Eirini,
Cool Capture, it is amazing how a plant so mean can be so pretty, well done.
IMO, your signature text is a bit crowded as placed, would be better balanced if placed in the bottom left on this picture.

Registered on June 16, 2012, 567 Posts, 2809 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Windom on August 2, 2012 at 5:25 PM

Great job on the stack....the detail is terrific. Perfect BG for this as well. It's also nice to see your handling of the colors in this; it would have been easy to bump the saturation which I think would have taken away from the image.

Agree with Mike re: your signature.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 176 Posts, 2302 Comments

Comment posted by Jaymes Dempsey on August 2, 2012 at 7:30 PM

I like the colors a lot here, those purples are really nice. Great composition, too.
A really nice capture!

Jaymes

Registered on June 28, 2010, 47 Posts, 590 Comments

Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on August 2, 2012 at 10:12 PM

Eirini - Very nice stack and I like how the ends of the plant make a nice little Arc !!. I almost thought you posted this upside down - how exactly was this shot ?

Registered on November 1, 2003, 550 Posts, 9037 Comments

Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on August 3, 2012 at 6:02 AM

I really like the composition and detail Eirni. Superb work.
Bob

Registered on October 27, 2005, 289 Posts, 4202 Comments

Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on August 3, 2012 at 7:16 AM

Ram, I updated my post to include the settings. I can't remember if I used a diffuser or not but I don't think so...I remember it being late in the afternoon so the cactus & the ground were shaded. Also, this is definitely NOT upside down. If you do a google image search on Chainfruit Cholla...you will see that it is aptly named! The fruits hang down in large "chains" sometimes the chains even branch into various directions and are very long. They all just dangle freely from the the cactus! It is a very interesting cactus in my opinion...usually people are quick to remove it when they buy land unfortunately.

Registered on December 13, 2011, 216 Posts, 1671 Comments

Comment posted by Nathan Buck on August 3, 2012 at 12:27 PM

Those are some very pretty blooms Eirini. I sort of wonder about inverting this so that it comes up from the bottom - or even from the side.

Nathan

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1101 Posts, 13589 Comments

Comment posted by Albert Darmo on August 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Hi Eirini

Another species of cacti wonderfully captured

this image has it all, good detail, color, light and composition

Albert Darmo

Registered on November 25, 2008, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Seaver on August 5, 2012 at 2:03 PM

I like the high key approach and the light background, it really lets the flowers stand out.

Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on August 6, 2012 at 8:27 PM

Eirini:
A very interesting plant and don't recall seeing one before. The stack has clearly captured the texture, undulation and light and shadow on the stem. I am a little confused to see the flowers are not as sharp though; is the an issue with the zerene program not handling the pink as well as the green or is this due to compression?

Registered on September 1, 2009, 588 Posts, 8184 Comments

Comment posted by Larry Lynch on August 7, 2012 at 11:09 AM

Beautifully done! Love the soft colors and comp. Excellent work.

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