Kategori: botanik
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Went to the waterlily spot again but I was a bit late – a storm front was approaching. It’s a bit unnerving to stand on a jetty, with thunder and lightning going on just beyond the lake. So admittedly, I was maybe not as concentrated on the job at hand as I should have been…
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Amazing, I’m halfway thru with the 365 pictures project! I’m glad that today I found a real subject to work with, instead of producing the normal crap that this project consists of… I can’t say I’ve learned anything from doing it so far, but it has confirmed what I’ve known all along – I can’t…
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Same weather as yesterday – windy, overcast and cool. I needed to find something steady for my 365 so I had a look at the junkyard (=the landlord’s open storage area) and was going to shoot an old bicycle, when I spotted this little flower growing in a crack on the floor. Nature will always…
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Today was ”De vilda blommornas dag”, an event arranged by the botanical association to increase public awareness of the importance of protecting wildflowers. It was great to meet with other botanists and talk about flowers – I can’t even tell you how much I’ve missed it! Unfortunately it was quite windy so it was pointless…
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I got this plant because I liked the leaves, soft and fuzzy and a bit oak-like (the Swedish name ”silverek” translates to silver oak). I must confess that I didn’t know that the plant actually produces flowers and belongs to the familiar aster family, until now that I needed to give an ID to the…
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I thought I was done with planting flowers, but then it started bothering me that I still had one empty balcony box. So when I saw the flower truck parked opposite our office, I had a look in case they had flowers with that little something extra. When I spotted this African daisy with curled petals, I just…
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When I finally decided to shoot some flowers for my 365, the wind picked up. Horribly. But all my frantic flower planting paid off – I noticed that the small carnation plant which grows in a tight bush wasn’t as much affected by the wind as the other flowers. So I just made sure to…
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I drove to Loos today to meet with my old flower guide. On the way to Loos, the fog was so thick (or the cloud was so low) that visibility was greatly reduced and the temperature was a modest 10 degrees, what a contrast to the tropical heat yesterday! We checked out a few favourite…
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Now my cosmos flower seedlings look like this:
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I’m going to declare May the Month of the Square. I’ll up the ante and add a challenge within a challenge, which is to only use the square format for the 365 pictures in May. Normally I stick to the format that the camera provides (which is 2:3 for the full format and 3:4 for…