Etikett: botanik
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I’ve changed the name of the blog from Photography (my way) to The Quiet Picture. The old name was really just a stopgap, I couldn’t come up with anything better at the time. But now upon reflecting on my photography in the past year in this blog (especially last August), I think The Quiet Picture…
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It’s a dull day, but not too windy so it’s great for flower photography. I had been waiting for weeks for the early coralroots to bloom and now it finally was time, so I took the gear to the forest. The early coralroot (Goodyera repens) is a common orchid and it grows plentiful in my…
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Since not many people seem to enjoy the morning hours, I was fairly sure that I could photograph the flower I missed yesterday in peace and quiet this morning. It was a lovely warm weather for cycling and when I got to the lake, I found that the sun hadn’t quite reached the flowers yet,…
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Nymphaea alba candida English: White Waterlily Swedish: Nordnäckros Finnish: Pohjanlumme If I really had to name my #1 favourite flower, it would probably be the white waterlily. It goes way back to my childhood – all those endless summers at my parents’ summer house. We have a shallow, mud bottom bay nearby and I remember…
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Although we are not suffering from such severe heat waves and drought as the rest of Europe, the water levels are low in the lakes. This provided me an opportunity to walk on the shore of the Loossjön lake, as during normal water levels you either get bog or forest right to the edge of…
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The day improved later in the afternoon so I headed for the overgrown field where I had photographed purple avens in June – I figured that the place should yield some other flowers as well and was secretly hoping for thistles. I got rewarded as there were thistles-a-plenty, with bumblebees busily working on them. I…
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Campanula rotundifolia English: Harebell Swedish: Liten blåklocka Finnish: Kissankello It’s an usually cold day for July, and then it also rained a little bit. I opted to photograph some flowers close to home and these harebells couldn’t really get much closer – about 5 metres from my front door! The wind wasn’t making this easy…
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Platanthera bifolia ssp. latiflora English: Lesser Butterfly-Orchid Swedish: Skosgnattviol Finnish: Valkolehdokki Ok folks, this is where it gets really exciting! This is the first time I’ve ever seen a lesser butterfly-orchid. I went out just to make an inventory of the flowers I have in the forest behind my house, when I came across this…
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Dactylorhiza incarnata cruenta English: Early Marsh Orchid Swedish: Blodnycklar Finnish: Punakämmekkä This is why I drive to the mountains to hunt flowers. To find species that we don’t get around here.. like the early marsh orchid. I have visited the mountains regularly since I moved to Sweden, but I didn’t discover the early marsh orchid…
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When I woke up, the sky looked ominous, but it wasn’t raining yet. We drove to Rockvallen because we knew that we would find some orchids there while not straying far from the car in case it would start raining. I had an absolute blast shooting different flowers, and by the time it started raining,…