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The way I figured it, I would only have one opportunity to get this right. If I wanted a keeper image of the calypso orchid, it had to be today – the flowers were starting to get past their prime. It was another dark and overcast day with a spot of rain, but that only…
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Something very special happened today. I was contacted by a person who asked if I’d be interested in photographing the fairy slipper, or calypso orchid (Calypso bulbosa). Say what?! This orchid is very rare and I had known that it was borderline possible that there was one place nearby where they might be growing, but…
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The mystery flower in the previous post has been de-mystified. It’s a double flowered marsh marigold, Caltha palustris ’Multiplex’. I have a colleague who is a garden enthusiast and she immediately pegged it as a marsh marigold and found me a link to a site with pictures of this flower. I’m rather pleased with myself,…
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Amazing. I have waited and waited… and now it’s finally here. The flower season. In the past weeks I’ve gotten in the occasional flower shot, but the floodgates really opened today. I’ve been walking around with camera in hand most of the day, and finished with a car ride to the lake and got my…
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Every spring when I see blueberry flowers I think that I should photograph them. Every year I have not done it. Until now – I have these things growing 5 metres from my house, no excuses! Not even the high winds deterred me, I just made use of my new Wimberley Plamp to steady the…
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A day off, and not wasted. That’s gotta count for something… My favourite wood anemone patch is best photographed in the morning, so I set down to shoot the flowers. Since the place is shaded for most of the day, the wood anemone are blooming later than elsewhere and there were plenty of buds and…
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When I started with photography, my pictures were crap. I did my best to improve them on the computer, using all sorts of filters to try and save them. I was quite happy with the results, but in retrospect, crap in crap out. When I finally learned to create decent images in camera, I ditched…
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On Tuesday I discovered some glory-of-the-snow flowers (Scilla forbesii) in Loos. The property where they grew looked empty, so I made some enquiries and found out that the owner lives in Stockholm and rarely visits. The owner’s father was the previous occupant and he was an avid gardener with carefully maintained flowerbeds and a variety…
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April was… well, April. We had a couple of really warm spells but also some typical April weather with a little bit of snowfall. Otherwise it was the month when all the snow disappeared, I now have but a small pile in a shaded trench behind the house. It was also a month with big…
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In the past years I’ve sworn not to show any of my hepatica pictures, because I was so fed up with all the hepatica crap that people posted on Fotosidan. Well, that problem is easily cured – I stopped visiting Fotosidan. Thus, I can now finally post a hepatica picture of my own. Not saying…