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Sunshine in the Gazania Forest



Sunshine in the Gazania Forest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger.

Gazanias, also called African Daisies, are easy to grow around here and gourgeous. The flower, which is apparently called Rankbotterblom by Afrikaaners and Ububendle by the Zulu, makes a glorious Berkeley ground cover.

These photos were taken with my 105mm macro lens (now returned from the shop), and my Nikon macro flash setup. I stopped the aperture down almost as far as it would go for maximum depth-of-field.

Gazania in Assembly

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Gazania Center

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Wet Gazania

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Gazania Water Drop

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With this photo, I played a little in Photoshop after taking it, by adding a blur filter around the petals (but not the center) of the Gazania:

Soft Gazania

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Here’s one of my earlier photos of a Gazania. Gosh, I love these unpretentious but beautiful flowers!

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One Response to “Sunshine in the Gazania Forest”

  1. Inner Flower | Photoblog 2.0 Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 9:38 am

    [...] went back and looked at my RAW take and processed these images of Gazania in the last couple of days. Post-processing took a great deal longer than the original capture; [...]

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