Wildstem

One Flower, One Hillside

A large red poppy among cornflowers, set beside a slope where no single flower can be picked out.

Two paired studies

Study A

A red poppy blooms among blue cornflowers and tall green stems.
Study A. A red poppy among blue cornflowers and tall green stems.

Study B

A hillside covered in small yellow flowers rises beneath trees and a blue sky.
Study B. A hillside of small yellow flowers under a tree line and a wide blue sky.

Observations

Plant or featureSeen inWhat to look at
Poppy, redStudy AThe largest flower in the frame, and the first thing seen.
CornflowersStudy ABlue flowers at about the same height as the poppy.
Small yellow flowersStudy BToo small and too many to name from this photograph; they read as one colour.
TreesStudy BA dark line along the top of the slope.
Where a flower cannot be identified from the photograph, it is described instead.

What the pair shows

This pair is about distance. In Study A the camera is close enough to count petals, and one flower carries the picture.

In Study B the same kind of attention finds nothing to hold. The flowers are small and spread over the whole slope, so the colour itself becomes the subject. This study is filed In flower; its partner leads the next band, At scale.

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