Poppy's are in Bloom again

Passed a group of poppy's the other day... Finally went to photograph them yesterday... Used my Olympus epl1 with a nikon 50mm1.8 lens.. I got down on the ground to get the lower perspective.
I like to take my poppy photographs in the middle of the day when the poppy's are backlite by the sun.

The first poppy photograph is a painterly effect using a filter in photoshop called Topaz Simplify.

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 This is a strait poppy photograph with  a dark vignette to make the poppy standout from the soft background.

View from above.

Then I switched to my telephoto lens on my Olympus EPL1 for the following two photographs. I again used Topaz Simplify to give them a painterly effect.