#florida grasses

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The Beautiful Purple Love Grass Makes a Colorful Mist

The Beautiful Purple Love Grass Makes a Colorful Mist explains to readers why purple lovegrass is one of the author’s favorites. It also shows readers an artistically styled image of the beautiful flowering grass.

Single Stalk Late summer and fall are flowering and seeding times for many grasses. One of my favorites is purple love grass (Eragrostis spectabilis) due to brilliant reddish purple flowers. It is also known as lovegrass, spectacular lovegrass, purple plains lovegrass, tumblegrass, and petticoat climber. The grass tends to grow in clusters and when a bunch of clusters flower at once they produce…

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The Fourth Image in the Trees Series is Here

The Fourth Image in the Tree Series is Here shows readers an artistically enhanced photo of wild bamboo. Bamboo is technically classified as a grass, but some do consider it a tree and it frequently acts as a tree, providing shade and protection.

Bamboo Maybe technically, bamboo is a grass rather than a tree, but the photos that I have of it are perfect for this application. And I actually am not alone in (sort of) calling it a tree. The Indian Forest Act of 1927 considered it a tree, and made it illegal to cut it in the forests. When most people think of bamboo they think of Asia, India, and sometimes even South America, but wild bamboo…

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I Love Doing Interesting ”Touch of Color” Images

I Love Doing Interesting “Touch of Color” Images discusses what this type of photo entails and give two examples. It also explains why these photos are fun to do and why they work well in some circumstances.

Sedge I Globe sedge is one of my favorite grasses to photograph due to it’s round, spiked seeds and it’s long, straight leaves or blades. The two textures makes a great contrast that makes for interesting images. It also lends itself very well to doing one of my favorite modifications. I call it adding a ”touch of color”, where one part of the image is colored while the rest is done in black and…

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