Kategori: botanik
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I was fortunate enough to get to borrow the new Canon 100mm f2.8 IS macro lens this weekend. I’ve always wanted a macro lens with IS and a few years ago I had the 100mm macro without IS, which I then traded for the 150mm macro. I’ve never regretted getting the longer focal length, but…
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I drove to the lady’s slipper orchid place I visited last week. It’s a small location, basically just an island of trees that were left standing when the forest around was cut many years ago. It slopes a little and I always enter it from the ”lower end” where most of the lesser butterfly orchids…
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Yesterday was a total washout, it was pouring rain all day but I did actually go out with the camera. The film camera, that is – I had some frames left in the roll of Velvia, and the new greens were looking very lovely in the rain as the colours are always saturated under those…
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I think that summer just started for me. It’s green everywhere, the sunshine was warm today and I was attacked by swarms of mosquitoes in the forest. The day was so good that I’m not even complaining about the bites! I drove back to the calypso orchids. There were in full bloom now, but I also found…
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I needed to check on the calypso orchid today. This is just the right time for them judging by the past 3 years, but it turned out that 2010 is a week behind. The very first thing I discovered when I got to the location was that it was wet – very wet. The water…
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Anyone who has seen any of my close-up photos knows that I like smooth backgrounds. While it makes for very simple and accessible pictures that truly highlight the subject itself, it’s not always the desirable effect. Sometimes it’s nice to show the flower in its environment, so occasionally make some efforts to achieve this. And…
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We made one more effort to find the pale pasque flowers in bloom. We found more leaves, but no blooms and now we’re sure that there won’t be any flowers this year, either. We should’ve seen at least some indication of a stem or a bud or something, but there really wasn’t anything like that.…
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I’ve been working extensively on this lily of the valley pic so I thought I’d post it. Nothing has been removed or added in the content (no cropping either), but I’ve used gradients, exposure adjustments, curves and all of that all over again with the adjustment brush, while trying to be careful not to over-do…
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It was raining today. I waited patiently for the raining to stop so I could train my camera on the lily of the valley buds and wood sorrel, but of course it doesn’t always help that the raining stops. It was still overcast and the wood sorrel didn’t like it at all and stayed closed.…
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I was very much expecting to see a lot of new flowers today. But you don’t always get what you expect, so I had to settle with the wood anemone alone. Last weekend when I checked my favourite wood anemone spot, the plants were very small with just very tiny buds. But the warm weather…