The Burnet Rose

The Burren as I mentioned previously is a 135 square mile limestone plateau in County Clare, Ireland. When you are there it looks like one of the most inhospitable places you could ever imagine and I'm sure that during the winter months it probably is. The strange thing about places like this, just like the Grand Canyon they are spectacularly beautiful. Amongst all the cracked limestone, flowers and plants grow like the one above. This one I found, growing all on it's own while walking back from the portal dolmen. It just looked too colorful in such a grey bleak surrounding that I just needed to photograph it. So I laid prone on the ground about 12 inches from the flower and took this photograph. I got some strange looks from the bus loads of tourists walking past me, but I read once that when photographing flowers you should get down to their level to get that unique photograph. By the way as the title says this is a Burnet Rose, which is not just native to the Burren, it just likes to live in hardy, limestone conditions..