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Bill Swartwout

8 Years Ago

Naming Help, Please - For A Sunflower

I'm having a "senior moment" while trying to title this "manipulated" sunflower image and would appreciate some suggestions. Sunflowers are certainly not heart-shaped so this is (obviously) a reflected image (done in PSE). I was hesitant to upload it to my AW so posted it to my personal Facebook page - where it received a lot of "Likes" and comments. So maybe I should offer it for sale - but think it needs "catchy" title.

So, what say you? Any cool ideas?

(I'm posting the Facebook version, with my watermark, because I don't want to upload and then have to change the title after it's been visited by some bots and/or people.)

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Bill Swartwout

8 Years Ago

Early yesterday morning I was out shooting in two fields of sunflowers near my home. Here is one of my favorites from that shoot.

Sunflower Photography Prints




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~ Bill
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Mario Carta

8 Years Ago

Bill, I see a face in your interesting photo, maybe "Face of a Sunflower"

 

Joel Bruce Wallach

8 Years Ago

Faces are also symmetrical, and this flower is facing the viewer, as if looking outwards: "The Face Of A Sunflower"

Edit: Mario's post showed up first!

 

Greg Jackson

8 Years Ago

"Taking Flight"

 

Thomas Zimmerman

8 Years Ago

I would play on the words a bit, reflection while literal in this photo, can also be thought of as thinking, or imagination. I would call it simply "Imagined"

 

Robert Kernodle

8 Years Ago

Okay, ... really boring and NOT catchy --- Heart Shaped Sunflower

... or a little less boring, and more in line with what YOU see --- Sunflower Heart

I like to keep my titles at three words or under, especially in the era of the internet. Otherwise, ... The Fabricated Unlikelihood Of A Sunflower In Love

 

Dorothy Berry-Lound

8 Years Ago

Hello Sunshine

 

Bill Swartwout

8 Years Ago

Oh, WoW. Thank you, all, for the suggestions - which will create difficult choices because they are all great ideas. I hadn't seen the "face" as much as the heart - but I do like the face theme. I may use all of your thoughts in the description of the piece.

SEO is a consideration (as it should be) but I do vary from the three word title. Google and BingHoo are usually good up to seven or eight terms.

Any more thoughts?????




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~ Bill
~ US Pictures .com

 

Mario Carta

8 Years Ago

The more I look at the image the more I see not one face but actually two faces the upper green part looks like one and then below that the center orange and yellow form another face, but not just any face. I collected at one time teotihuacan ancient carved stones and these face look just like some stone carvings, so I'm gonna makes a second suggestion.

"Teotihuacan Sunflower Faces"

 

Jamie Ramirez

8 Years Ago

This image makes me think of a tribesman or a chief. Very fantastical image! .... so I would go with Warrior or Tribesman. (You could add sunflower to it as well... like Sunflower Warrior). A lot of great choices. Good Luck. :)

 

Bill Swartwout

8 Years Ago

Yikes, Mario, I had to look that up. Yes, the green part has a strong similarity to some of the carved Teotihuacan "faces" or masks.

In addition, Jamie, these carved faces also resemble a warrior chieftain. Now I've got an even tougher choice.

It may boil down to "Many Faces of a Sunflower" and then include all of the above ideas into the description..."Some may think this sunflower is all heart because of the basic heart shape but when one looks closely into the folds of petals and leaves there are many features to behold.......



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~ Bill
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Chrystyne Novack

8 Years Ago

With this sunflower composition, I either see a lions mane crowning the center of the flower or I see it as a tribal mask (more specifically it reminds me of the American Indian Kachinas - Tsitoto is the Flower Kachina but that is multicolor)

Given those two thoughts some random suggestions on title:

A Prideful Flower (play on pride as referring to group of lions)
A Prideful Crown
Lionsface
A Flower's Roar
Flower Chieftain
Sun's Flower Kachina
Tribal Spiritflower
Tribal Petals (instead of feathers)
Of the Tribe Helianthus (which refers to the sunflower's Genus)



 

Louise Reeves

8 Years Ago

Samurai Sunflower

*shrug* looks like a Samurai to me...

 

Bill Swartwout

8 Years Ago

Thank you, Chrystine - yet another suggestion that I had to look up. This adds yet another twist that I'll incorporate into my description.

BTW - I like your photograph of the sunflower-painted barn, "In Full Bloom." Fascinating, along with your sunflower umbrella compositions.



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~ Bill
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Bill Swartwout

8 Years Ago

Louise. Samurai? Really (was my initial thought)?

Soooo...I looked up Samurai via image search on The Google. There are several Samurai there for which my sunflower poses a good resemblance. Very cool, indeed.

Thank you.




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~ Bill
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Mario Carta

8 Years Ago

I knew this image reminded me of something else, and Louise reminded me when she brought up the Samurai....................an old copper sculpture I called "Tribal Fire Dancer" how about "The sunflower dancer" lol

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Andy PYRAH

8 Years Ago

The face bee-fore me

Birth of the Phoenix

 

Gerlinde Keating

8 Years Ago

"Do you see my inner beauty?"

 

Bill Swartwout

8 Years Ago

Thank you, all, so much for the wonderful suggestions. I plan to incorporate something from each of you into the image description on my AW when I upload the piece and/or when I write an article about your suggestions on my photography blog.

As a small gesture of my appreciation, I am visiting each of your "galleries" and leaving a "Comment," a "Like" and a "Favorite" for one of your pieces. I'm about half way through and am finding that some of you also have an eye for sunflowers. Very cool.

(I'll now close this discussion.)




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~ Bill
~ US Pictures .com

 

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