I’m trying to take different routes every time I do my evening walk. Yesterday I went to the gravel pit, more with the intention of finding the shortcut to the waterfalls than anything else, but I got so much more – a real hotspot of flowers, and some of them quite exciting. Not all of these flowers are such that they would grow in the wild here, so this place has been used for dumping leftover soil and some flowers have managed to survive.

Needless to say that today I didn’t even try to find any new routes for my walk, but just took the camera to this same place. On the way, I made a discovery – early coralroot! I walked past last night and missed it, but now it stood out. Unexpected that the tiny early coralroot would be my first local orchid of the year, but that just makes it more sweet.

I decided to try the Canon 100mm macro on the Sony and take advantage of the focus peaking feature and tilting LCD. It would be nice if the display rotates so it could be angled up with vertical pictures as well, but I was positively surprised how I managed to focus correctly anyway, even with low contrast subjects like the early coralroot. It was shot through grass which apparently confused focus peaking because it didn’t signal anything, with the camera on the ground and in vertical position… I barely saw the display!