Campanula rotundifolia

• English: Harebell
• Swedish: Liten blåklocka
• Finnish: Kissankello

It’s an usually cold day for July, and then it also rained a little bit. I opted to photograph some flowers close to home and these harebells couldn’t really get much closer – about 5 metres from my front door! The wind wasn’t making this easy as the harebells have a tendency to sway from the slightest whisper of a wind, but I managed to squeeze in a few sharp shots. Out of the whole bunch of harebells growing there, these two stood out – diagonally leaning to opposite directions to create a dynamic composition, with a clean background.

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Image specs: ISO 200, f5.6, 1/160, Canon 300mm f4L, 31mm ext. tube

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With nothing better to do, I explored the forest and found three more of the lesser butterfly orchid, all of them quite withered. It looks like I really got lucky to find the one I did at first… because it was the only one still reasonably photogenic. There are also some old remains of more of them, so had I ventured in the forest just a couple of weeks earlier, I’m sure I would’ve found these orchids quite easily. But now I will just make a note for next year…