Posts Tagged ‘wildflowers’
Queen Anne’s Lace
Just a common wildflower, but this cluster had an unusual globular shape, not the usual flat top:
Taken at the salt pond in Eastham at Cape Cod National Seashore – I just got back from a week at the Cape.
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Foamflower
A portrait of a common wildflower in the northeast:
The spring leafing out is becoming complete. Maples are in full leaf, grass is up, the oaks are greening up. There are lots of butterfly species flying now – today I saw three species of elfin, American Lady, Spring Azure, Juvenal’s Duskywing, Pearl Crescent, American Copper, suphurs, [...]
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Starflowers
Other than witch hazel, spring wildflowers are still weeks away. Here’s a wildflower from last year, starflower (Trientalis borealis):
Starflower blooms in the deep woods, under the canopy. In my area, they are a May wildflower. Last year I found a wooded hillside with hundreds of them, and madeimages of groups of flowers like this one. [...]
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Thinking spring
After a fresh snowfall, nearly a foot today, I\’m thinking about spring wildflowers:
A bloodroot flower from last year. I\’ll get out and chase snowflakes tomorrow, but for now I’ll dream of flowers.
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New England Aster
A closeup of a wildflower on a dewy fall morning:
There still are a few flowers left – my garden has a single campanula and a few black-eyed susans. But the leaves are all down, the brown season is here.
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Dame’s Rocket
A prolific mustard family flower that puts splashes of white, pink, and purple in the landscape:
I indulged myself in some out of focus color by shooting through a cluster of the flowers…
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Wood poppies again
I went back to my wood poppy spot looking for a vertical image with out of focus flowers in the background. A nice cloudy day, great for flower photography:
Starflower has started to bloom in the woods – pretty soon it’ll be ladyslipper time. Just a couple of weeks ago or so I was [...]
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Bloodroot
My bloodroot finally came up last week. The first few flowers were the usual eight petal white type. Then this weekend another pair blossomed and they were double or triple the usual number of petals.
A welcome surprise. Lots of wildflowers are coming up now – trout lily, dutchmans’s breetches, trillum – I just have to [...]
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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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A round peg in a square…
You find beautiful, symmetrical, round flower. The first thing you might try as a photographer is to get the camera parallel – so all the petal edges are in focus. And get all of the flower in the frame. But where to put it in the frame?
Centered in the frame – like the [...]
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