Posts Tagged ‘complementary colors’
Leaves and moss
The small leaves on the right are tiny blackberry leaves growing up through the moss:
The maple leaf dropped in to make a group of three. About the only closeup I could do on a blustery day – this shaded spot was the only place where everything wasn’t blowing around.
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Tags: complementary colors, Macro, Nature
Crocus
Witch hazel and snowdrops aside, the flower season seems to begin when these start flowering in my garden:
Taken at 2x magnification, at a wide aperture so only some of the detail shows.
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Tags: art, complementary colors, Flowers, Macro, Photography
Geranium
Last week I got away from the snow and ice and visited a greenhouse. The complementary colors of the red petals and green foliage of this geranium were hard to resist:
Not an ordinary greenhouse, its an historic one dating back to around 1800. There are beautiful camellias, orchids, and a huge bougainvillea. Unfortunately the orchids [...]
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Tags: colors, complementary colors, Flowers, Macro, red
Sumac leaves
Here’s something from end of October. The glory of sumac is the symmetrical rows of leaves and their deep crimson color. Not all of them get that rich color (sometimes they just drop), and the change can start surprisingly early, with some red leaves coming in late August and early September. This bunch was little [...]
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Tags: complementary colors, green, Macro, Nature, Photography, Plants, red, sumac
Fall arrives
With the drought the Boston area had in late summer, I wondered if we’d have much fall color at all. I thought leaves might drop before they changed. Now the colors are coming on, maples are starting to hit peak color in my town, with oaks and beeches still green, and aspen and poplar going [...]
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Tags: complementary colors, green, leaves, red
Giving yourself an assignment
After putting up my website Portraits and Abstracts I realized that the flower gallery needed more substance and color. So my assignment was to take a group of colorful flower images.
Not just vivid color, I wanted a range of colors and color intensities: from white to yellow to red to blue, soft colors, vivid colors, [...]
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Tags: complementary colors, Flowers, wildflowers
Dogbane beetles
I don’t think I’ve noticed these beautiful iridescent beetles until this year. I found this pair on a dogbane plant. When I looked the insect up in a field guide, the common name is Dogbane Beetle.
Something of a photographic challenge, these bright beetles need soft overcast light. I had that here, and even then it’s [...]
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Tags: complementary colors, Insects, nature study
Along for the ride
More milkweed beetles. This pair have been up to something, and now one of them is along for the ride:
When you’re outside these days, keep your eyes open for Red Admiral butterflies. There is a big migration of them, large numbers observed in reports from Wisconsin and even in the Atlantic off the coast of [...]
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Tags: complementary colors, Insects, milkweed
In your face: Milkweed beetle
We’re heading into peak summer season now – common milkweed is starting to flower, attended by lots of different insects including these familiar red beetles:
I took this one with a 1.4x teleconverter on a macro lens. It was great to get one of these to look right at me like this – they almost look [...]
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Tags: bugs, complementary colors, Insects, Nature, red
Up close
Teleconverters combined with a macro lens are a great way of getting high magnification while keeping your distance from the subject. Here’s a single stamen from a spiderwort flower:
If you use a 2x teleconverter, you get 2x magnification at the minimum focus distance. With my digital camera sensor, the capture area is about 11mm on [...]
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Tags: complementary colors, Flowers, Macro
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