Taken in Volcano Village, Hawai’i, during a few seconds lull in the rain. The Ti plant really was that colour.
Although that looks like a water droplet on there, sunflowers, it turns out, are rather like ducks’ backs – water just rolls off them. So that little drop up there is actually agave syrup.
Day of the Dead procession 2005 from Olvera Street into Paseo de la Plaz, oldest part of Los Angeles, Southern California. Image rights available from Alamy.
Linda Robshaw 