Kategori: hälsingland
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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…
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It’s been raining a lot since the night before Thursday. The ground is completely saturated and when the sun came out at around noon, the air was very humid which added to the warm sunshine – t-shirt warm! Without a shadow of a doubt, the warmest day of the year so far. But it’s just…
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Imagine a sparse pine forest. Imagine the forest floor as it typically is in these forests – covered with lichens and mosses and heather and blueberry/cowberry/crowberry brush and juniper bushes. Now imagine the leaves of a pale pasque flower. And imagine that there is just one pale pasque flower individual in all of this forest.…
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Just when you thought you’d seen the last hepatica picture! Well I thought I’d taken my last hepatica picture (for the year) until I saw a bunch of them, radiating their colour from under the branches of a spruce. The flowers were big and the colour was very strong, not a pale flower in the…
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Did my weekly walk again to take a look at the flowers. The daphne in my favourite daphne spot have just started to bloom so I approached them with the macro lens and extension tube. I’m pretty happy with the daphne pictures I took last year so the only new thing I could think of…
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I like hiking light. Dragging a whole lot of photography gear is just not my thing, because I want to enjoy the hike as well. So I have a big dilemma when I have to choose the gear for mountain hikes because I want to be able shoot both flowers and landscapes. And since the…
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Last week I was hoping that I was done with the crocus pictures, but I just had to post this one. It’s not very polite to shove a lens up to anyone’s reproductive system but the crocus didn’t mind and I promise that no flowers were harmed in the process! In order to get this…