Side by Side #2
by Darren Fisher
Title
Side by Side #2
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful image of 2 Sunflowers blooming side by side. I captured this image in a field of over 600,000 Sunflowers here in Virginia. I then used digital effects to create a beautiful painting. Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower, is a large annual forb of the genus Helianthus grown as a crop for its edible oil and edible fruits (sunflower seeds). This sunflower species is also used as bird food, as livestock forage (as a meal or a silage plant), and in some industrial applications. The plant was first domesticated in the Americas. Wild Helianthus annuus is a widely branched annual plant with many flower heads. The domestic sunflower, however, often possesses only a single large inflorescence (flower head) atop an unbranched stem. The name sunflower may derive from the flower's head's shape, which resembles the sun, or from the false impression that the blooming plant appears to slowly turn its flower towards the sun as the latter moves across the sky on a daily basis.
Sunflower seeds were brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16th century, where, along with sunflower oil, they became a widespread cooking ingredient.
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October 7th, 2016
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