Skunk Cabbage

[Whistletown Wilds]

These plants grow wild in eastern North America, in wet boggy areas and along streams; they're quite attractive and colorful when they emerge in the spring ,but if if broken they smell like there namesake. C&C Thanks for your input . PS #2 is shot in the rain.
#1

#2

[marlunn]

Nice captures Sherwood, love #2 with the rock with the sympathetic colouring - we get them here now, they were brought in as decrotive plants in big stately gardens and escaped to the countryside, bit of a pest in some areas for our natural wild plants as they crowd them out

[Geoff F]

You have a few exposure hot spots in the first image. These localised over exposed areas are very difficult to avoid but you have managed it with the second image. I might try to selectively tone down the bright leaf in the top right corner, or even consider cloning it out; but otherwise that shot is working well.

[IzzieK]

I like the tight crop of #1 but as Geoff already mentioned the hot spots. No 2 is a little bit too busy for me...