Kategori: The Quiet Picture
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Or as the Swedes would say it, Humleblomster och en humla. I was just setting up the rig when this bumblebee showed up. Knowing that it will not wait for me to finish setting up things, I fired the shutter and hoped that I got the exposure, sharpness and composition. Exposure, yes. Sharpness – good…
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When I was aching for the 300mm lens, it was not only for the smooth backgrounds but also for the smooth foregrounds. An experienced photographer can quickly pick the subjects and backgrounds. I can pick them, slowly. But then you have this thing about foreground, and now suddenly you have three things to worry about:…
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In some respects, May felt like a cooler month than April. April had a warm spell that lured us into thinking that summer was around the corner, then when May was being typically May (we had roughly normal temperatures most of the month), we thought it was really cold. What was not normal about May…
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This is in response to Michael Brown’s call for self critique posts. * * * The calypso orchid is very rare and a protected species that likes mossy conifer forests. We have a location where this flower grows a few miles from where I live but I only found the place recently, and the whole…
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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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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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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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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…