Collab - Summer has arrived

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Honestly: I have never seen so many poppies in the fields as this June. 

Evidently there is a perfectly scientific explanation for it (poppies are more resistant than other wild flowers and so they thrive while the other flowers have perished during the hot summers of the last years)

On a strictly artistic level I just had to make some poppy shots. This is the first, more will follow on Flickr.

 

In Flanders' fields the poppies grow

You saw this image first on Instagram

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