‘Chocolate Cherry’ Sunflower: Full Coverage
My mad love for the ‘Chocolate Cherry’ sunflower has resulted in almost daily mini photo sessions, capturing it at every stage of development and possible angle. I’ve come to realize that if I continued posting updates as part of the Daily Botanical you’ll be stuck looking at pictures everyday for weeks. It just makes more sense to get it all out of my system now.
That should cover it. Although, I’ve got some Polaroids that are nice and I am yet to process the medium format shots….
September 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
Awesome shots! I’ve already added this beauty to MSG 2009 wish list.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
Awesome shots! I’ve already added this beauty to MSG 2009 wish list.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Ooooohhhh, beautiful! I grew Italian Whites which I’ve been boring everyone with and these would look so cool with it…
September 1st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I’m just impressed with your ability to photograph them. My Cinnamon Sunflowers (of a similar color) just want to suck in the light, which makes it hard to get a good shot.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Meryl: Thank you. I shoot manually which allows me to control the settings.
Brenda: Yes they would look nice together.
September 1st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
That is beautiful…
September 1st, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I planted a sunflower mix this year and wasn’t sure what would turn up. One of these guys just opened up here today, and I’m so glad to know what it’s called! Mighty delicious looking, too.
September 1st, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Beautiful shots, and that looks like a very happy bee!
September 1st, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Nice shots! Can’t wait to see the polaroids.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Beautiful! Though I’m a bit jealous. My first attempt at sunflowers have been ruined by the wild finches. Nothing sprouted because by the time I learned to cover the pot with a screen, I believe the birds took to them. Plus, you have bees! My environment has been struck by the deadly bee mite! So enjoy them and hopefully, the bee problem doesn’t get to you.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Gorgeous shots! You should come by my place and take some pics in the mum field :) Only 50,000 pots left to go.
September 2nd, 2008 at 5:48 am
What a beautiful sunflower and photographs. Its nice to see a sunflower that is not yellow.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Just beautiful! And great photography as well!
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I grew some of these this year! I love them- one of the most beautiful sunflowers there is! Great Pictures!
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 am
Chocolate Cherry Sunflower ought to have a song written for it ;) — gorgeous shots, Gayla (looking forward to the ‘roids)!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
Lovely!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Most gorgeous sunflowers I have ever seen.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
these photos are breathtaking!
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
These are amazing photographs!! I am in the market for a new camera - what kind do you have?
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Beautiful! I haven’t heard of this variety before, so I’ll definitely give it a try next year.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
My daughter and I LOVE this sunflower, we also the LOVE the photography. We have the info on the flower, can we get the scoop on what type/model camera was used! Fabulous!
September 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Vikki and Kelsey: Thank you!
I use an assortment of cameras to do the photography on this site but the shots in this post are using an older digital SLR. I don’t want to recommend the model because to be honest the digital and digital SLR market has exploded since mine came out several years ago and there are now smaller and even better models that go for cheaper.
I recommend looking at dpreview.com which has very good reviews of most camera models.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:34 am
oooo! I grew this one this year too and was also amazed and delighted! Saving these seeds for sure!
September 8th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I will definitely be growing these beauties next year. Great shots!
September 10th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Damn, them’s beautiful!!!
September 21st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
These photos are great!
I love sunflowers but never heard of this variety.
…I will look for seeds for next yr…anyone have a place to order from …let me know… Fay