First Maximilian sunflowers for 2014

When I visited the prairie restoration at the Elisabet Ney Museum on the morning of August 28th, I saw my first Maximilian sunflowers, Helianthus maximiliani, flowering this year. Compare the asymmetrically developed head of this Maximilian sunflower to the one on a roughstem rosinweed that appeared here not long ago.

If you’re interested in photography as a craft, you’ll find that points 1, 2, 4, 7 and 18 in About My Techniques are relevant to this photograph.

© 2014 Steven Schwartzman