I love blackberries, lovely pies!!! Very pretty.

Being someone who has lived all his life in the concrete junge I never knew Brambles flowered.

What a lovely macro of this delightful flower :-) 35 years back, this area was full of blackberry bushes and every august, we ripped them and made blackberry jam. :) Not many left, now that this area is full of summerhouses. At that time we could sit on the roof and enjoy the 100s of little sailboats on the north side of the spit, sailing around Zealand once year. Now we have only view to the garden...........and the field, as with the stonefence, the summer house area ends.

Very pretty love this flower

My garden is taken over with about 30 Bougainvillea plants, that yes......I planted!

Beautiful shot!! We have the same problem in our garden :(

Great capture I think they are a bane everywhere

Looks like crumples paper, excellent.

Crumpled even :)

very fine and detailed shot and even better in zoom.

It is a strange flower.

Superb capture Andrea. God bless.

Wow! What a pretty flower. Wonderful clarity and color.

Splendid flower and excellent capture! :)

Lovely shot, I too love blackberries... ideally before the birds and the little furry creatures get at them all.

This is a beautiful specimen! The ones here are a bit smaller, I think, and sparser in the middle bits. But they are EVERYWHERE. They are trying to come up all over my back garden, lots in places that are inaccessible, and the thorns go right through gloves, so getting them out is not easy at all. I would imagine before any humans came to this part of the world it was all one big bramble as far as the eye could see!

You've turned even this lowly bloom into something spectacular! We've got oodles of them around here (being in the same part of the world as Denise), but I tend to not notice them. Next time I see one I'll take a closer look!

beautiful capture, great details

Two very different pictures! The flickr is more head on, and the details and light are much more sharp and bright. This one has a slightly more recessive light, not heavy shadow but just more muted light. It has more mystery. And those crumpled leaves are wonderfully caught, like crumpled crepe paper. Or taffeta, kind of. And you have it on one side of the shot, with the leaves going forward into the other---I always like flower shots from one side---and a lot of rich shadow. A wonderful capture of a rumpled flower, and the stamen area is so full and ornery. Both shots make a beautiful display of this beautiful primal flower. Very sensitive work, Andrea.

The area that is now the Hollow, the "bottom land" was totally covered with "brambles", red and black raspberries. If we didn't mow, I bet within a year it would be just as high and thick as it was when we bought the land. I love both berries, have not ever baked a pie or made jam with them, but eat them right off the bushes. Murphy used to go berry picking with me, he would sit patiently waiting for me to pop some berries in his mouth. The other two weren't crazy about berries. Ah such sweet memories you've evoked!

Both versions are lovely and very similar but there are minor differences. Both fantastic photos and beautiful zooms!

Great shot the ones in our hedge are still only small buds.