| camera | Canon PowerShot A520 |
| exposure mode | full manual |
| shutterspeed | 1/160s |
| aperture | f/5.5 |
| sensitivity | unknown |
| focal length | 23.1mm |
| resolution | 2272x1704 pixels |
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Cattail
Last year's Cattail - for Ray
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comments (12)
Nature's version of cotton candy?
Mary MacADNski: To certain animals, a main food source. I have two muskrats in the pond and they eat it. I see bundles in their mouths every day, swimming across the pond.
Is this what we call a bull rush when it is seeding ? Lovely image. Have a lovely day. :o) John
Mary MacADNski: Yes this is a seeding bull rush. We call them cattails as a common name.
In a picture like this, try to get the cattail and the tree in the background well out of line of each other.It should improve the composition a lot.
Enjoy your spring/summer. We now have the signs of winter setting in.
Mary MacADNski: I knew this wasn't great in it's composition. I should have cropped the bit off the left too.
This looks like what we call a bullrush.
Mary MacADNski: That's what it is but cattail is the common name here.
In Madagascar we call it a spider brush mary!
Mary MacADNski: That's a new one on me. I've never heard that one.
I love cattails... they feel so soft
Mary MacADNski: They are soft at this stage.
I remember when I first found out the Brits call these bullrushes...like in the Bible (King James Version?)! We call them cattails, too, Mary. I've never seen one go to seed quite like this, however!
Mary MacADNski: They do this over the winter and some are still standing in the spring. Sometimes they fall onto the pond while ice is forming and get stuck and frozen in there making it a hazard for ice skating.
Great picture, I have been reading the comments, now I know what's called...I know it is dangerous when this freezes into the ice...
Love the clours though.
Mary MacADNski: Thanks, Astrid.
We will have to stop this thinking of each other thing, Mary...[grin]
Today I mentioned you and your beach in my response to mal's stunning picture.
Mary MacADNski: Yes, I had a photo of old pylons a while back from up the road but for some reason it didn't turn out like mal's. It had colour for one.
BTW...thank you! I like this picture a lot.
Like the cattail [aka bullrush, aka cumbungi]. Love the tree corpse in the background...toppled rather inelegantly into the water.
Mary MacADNski: I got my feet wet to take this and only snapped twice. It's not a great photo but got the point across. - Cattails or bullrushes are cool at this stage.
Candyfloss on a stick Mary. Wow
Mary MacADNski: That's a good one, Tracy.
I simply love this photograph. The imagery conjurs up so many possibilities in my furtive mind. Fabulous
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