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Prickly Pear
Prickly Pear
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Location: Albuquerque NM
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: May 31, 2009

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 Even these cacti and succulents have to be nurtured and watered to survive here. The natural landscape is very brown in the high desert Southwest :)
5300ft elevation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

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 06/04/2009 11:53:10 AM
Now there's a familiar sight! Looks like my cactus garden :-) Love the colors, the tilt, the detail, this is sweet.
 06/02/2009 10:38:36 PM
We have prickly pear here in Florida too. They seem to grow best where the soil is sandy and too dry for anything else. The low angle to get the sky behind the cacti helps to isolate the subject in this shot. Their blooms are very pretty too, but this one is past that stage. The local Latinos
eat the flat "leaves". One of the places that I work was working on a thorn-less variety to try to market.
The biggest and thorniest ones that I have ever seen were on an isolated island in the Bahamas.
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 06/02/2009 03:08:06 PM
Excellent detail and very good use of diagonals in the composition.
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 06/02/2009 02:10:00 PM
The red of the prickly pears works well with the depth of blue in the sky. It is nice to see intact fruit. On hikes, the deer or other critters seem to take bites before the fruit can get so big.
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 06/02/2009 10:50:25 AM
For me this has a real holiday feeling as we only get to see this type of flora when we travel abroad.
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 06/02/2009 10:41:10 AM
It's nice to see not only the details of the plant here but also the overall feeling of it.
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 06/02/2009 10:27:21 AM
It's a very dramtically framed image. I like that.
And fuit on cacti.. who would've thought that was possible..
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 06/02/2009 10:17:25 AM
Interesting colors and textures.
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