The Empire of the Dandelion

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The Empire of the Dandelion
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Some species are ubiquitous — pigeons, rats, and dandelions, to name a few. I’ve made it a project to photograph dandelions where ever I find them. This is a collage of images of that project. There are many more in my collection, but they wouldn’t fit on a page that would be readable.

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Any comments are welcome. I want to put some simple frames around each photo, but that process has eluded me.

This project aims not only to photograph the dandelion but also to include a recognizable landmark of the country in which I took it. (I know it doesn’t work for Nepal.)

Comments on the graphics as well as the images are welcome.

Technical Details

Is this a composite: Yes

Various cameras and technical details.

@paulgwiegman
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What an excellent idea Paul! Good for you and thanks for showing us. A very good selection of photos and I like the nice low pov. I am trying to image the page with borders around each photo. I think it might take away from the flow around what you have now shown . Well done.

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Thanks David. It’s was, and continues to be, an enjoyable project.

I’m not looking for large frames, but just a thin line or something to “raise” the photo above the background.

Namaste

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Paul: A great idea carried off so well. The common denominator of the dandelions melds everything together. Most excellent. >=))>

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I really love your project idea! Dandelions are beautiful and it’s amazing how they can grow anywhere which you are illustrating! Really neat!

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It astounds me how widespread some species are. That taraxacological collage I presented includes North & South America, Europe, and Asia. I hadn’t started this project when in Australia, but I suppose it is found there also.

There’s a whole botanical displine devoted to just the one genus - Taraxacum

The most common species is Taraxacum officinale native to Europe, and dispersed worldwide. It may be the most commonly recognized wildflower in the world.

Namaste

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Cool idea Paul!
And, as a fellow Pittsburgher, I love seeing our hometown represented! (Though there’s a typo in the city name there.)
I don’t think you even need borders around the images, but if you wanted to add some, maybe something in just a slightly darker (or lighter) shade of gray as compared to the background would work.
Great concept and images!

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Super idea for a project! Giving the ubiquitous it’s due!
My favorite is Paris. I think that super low to high perspective is great.

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Well, that’s embarrasing. You would think that after 77 years I would have learned to spell Pittsburgh, ana’t. Geeze, I even spelled some of the locations in their native language. Yinz have a good eye.

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Thanks Mark, Paris was interesting. The flower was really low to the ground and about a yard inside an iron fence. I was laying on the pavement with my arm stretched as far as I could reach. My face was pressed against the fence so I could see the LCD screen. And a small crowd was gathering trying to figure out what was going on. And my wife was trying to explain what I was doing to a group of Japanese tourists while they were making a lot of sound that sounded somehow mirthful. But I got the picture. Thanks for the comment.

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