Sunflowers are one of the most important markers of a Mediterranean landscape in summer. They are large, bright and yellow, like small suns rising from the earth, conveying an immediate sense of light and warmness. I've photographed them in the past, but I've never been satisfied with the results — nothing that conveys the sensations that you experience looking at them in a field.

Today I'm trying a new approach: backlight in the late afternoon — and this, at last, seems to work in revealing the true nature of the flowers (it also pleasantly puts in evidence the margins of leaves). Unfortunately, the field is not accessible and I have to use my longest lens plus a teleconverter to catch them at full size, which poses some DOF problems. Relatively open apertures are good for insulating single flowers, but to properly get them in group I have to stop down a lot (and in this case, because of a warm breeze that waves them, I can't compensate with long exposure times, so I am forced to crank the ISO up).

The results are good, but I have to improve the way of isolating single flowers from the mass of leaves.