Posts Tagged ‘art’
Heath aster
There are only a few flowers left these days, mostly asters in protected spots – blue asters, heath asters, other white asters. Here’s a series of images of one tiny heath aster, around 10mm across.
Shooting wide open gives a dreamy, minimalist look and hides the imperfections in the flower. Click a thumbnail to view a [...]
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Watkins Glen
A waterfall image from my last trip to the Ithaca area, two falls in the narrow Watkins Glen gorge:
This looks lonely and wild, but it’s a high traffic area. Lots of people walk through the gorge on a path built into the rock, out of sight, on the left. The worst part is that passersby [...]
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Meadow sunset
Foxtails in sunset light – the sunlight was filtering through the woods in the distance:
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Aster and dew
The beginning of fall color – in a small way:
One of the glories of the fall – a pretty flower that fades quickly. A closeup like this hides the parts of teh flower that age fast.
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Lace
A Queen Anne’s lace flower, just opening:
They are plain, but my eye is drawn to the lines and curves.
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Spiderwort and drop
Spiderwort (Tradescantia) is a midsummer flower with vivid colors (some purple, some pink), and three petals. When you look closely, the flower center has three elements: a straight pistil, a group of yellow-orange anthers, and surrounding them, feathery filaments. In this image, I caught the filaments in a drop after a rain:
Taken with my high [...]
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Daisies
Just some common June flowers in a meadow:
Not as colorful as some spring flowers, but groups of them are a beautiful sight.
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Wood Poppy
A wood poppy from this spring:
I took this a few minutes after the fern image in my last post. It was a great morning – overcast light, not much wind. I’ve never captured the prickliness of wood poppies before. This is a pretty typical threesome, they don’t all bloom at once. Either there are buds [...]
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White hepatica
More hepatica from Ithaca, NY. This image shows the scene at shoestring level:
Just a face in the crowd of hepatica.
It warmed up this weekend in Massachusetts – more spring butterflies are in flight, including the diminutive elfins, spring azures, and other butterflies.
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Crocus abstract
Another look at a crocus, this time a petal. In this image, there’s hardly any detail, just line, light, and color:
I had to duck raindrops and wait between gusts of wind to take this – it’s been blustery around here lately.
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Tags: abstract, art, Flowers, Macro, spring
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