Poppycock II

Another image of a California poppy, growing in our garden.

Poppycock

We're at the fag end of the summer's haul of photos - there are a couple more to come, but here's one of a California Poppy growing in our garden to be going on with. 

I Remember California

Despite the fact that my macro lens has been returned, I'm still working through the last batch of images that I made before it broke.Of those, this is the last of image of a Californian poppy that I'm going to post, and appropriately enough, its of a seed head, the end of the life-cycle.

Previous post title: California Stars is a song recorded by Wilco for the first Mermaid Avenue album. This was one of a pair of albums that they made with Billy Bragg - of all people - which took lyrics from an archive of unrecorded Woody Guthrie songs and set them to music written by the recording artists.

This post borrows its title from another politically engaged American band's oeuvre.

California Stars

In a first for this blog, I've chosen to post two versions of the same image on the basis that I can't decide between them. Above is the mono treatment, below the colour. I think they both have their charms - feel free to comment on which you prefer.

In other news, this blog has reached a milestone of one thousand page views. Its taken over a year, so its nothing to crow about, more a case of perseverance in the face of indifference than anything else. I have noticed that posting anything with a vaguely American theme causes a surge in the number of hits, so these poppies have helped move things on a bit.

The previous post was titled after a song by Luna, once described in Rolling Stone magazine as "the best band that you've never heard of", which is a ringing endorsement, if ever I've heard one.

This post has another popular music themed title, with a roundabout link to one of the previous titles in this series.

California (All The Way)

This is an image of one of the Californian Poppies that we had growing on the riverbank at the back of the house earlier in the summer. Photographing them open is the devil's own job, because they close up as soon as the sun goes in. The specimen pictured is actually closing up, so I was having to work quickly.

Yet again, I couldn't come up with a suitable mono treatment, so I'm presenting it here in glorious colour.

Anyway, the post title is another music reference, this time with an indie rock theme.

The previous post - Windfall - was a reference to the Son Volt song of that name, from their first album "Trace", which is a truly great driving record. Yet again, Mr Dart sussed it out.