Maybe it is post-christmas blues, or that we’ve all had to come back to work after a long break! The dried teasel below mirrors my feelings exactly!!
Photographed on 7th January, 2014 using an iPhone and processed in Adobe Lightroom with Photomatix Pro.
Nikon D7000, with a 105mm/f.2.8 Sigma macro lens with extension tubes. ISO 100, f/18, 1.6 seconds Processed in Adobe Lightroom
A red poppy peeks out from between a lush green field of wheat.. At Hinxton in Cambridgeshire.
Earlier this summer, I spotted this beautiful banded demoiselle fly (female) perched on a flower bud. And it just so happened that I had my camera with macro lens! Some results are below.
There are, according to this handy website, only two species of demoiselles in the United Kingdom, of which I have now photographed one. The other I have seen on occasion in the west country but never been close enough to take a decent photograph. Demoiselles belong to the same family as the dragonflies but are more closely related to the damselflies.
Technical Details: Nikon D700 with a Sigma f2.8 105mm macro lens ISO 200 with f8.0 aperture priority Nikon D600 speedlight flash Processed in Adobe Lightroom 5.2
“There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
What better to post with christmas around the corner but a photograph of the “Christmas Rose” (Genus: Helleborus). Hellebores flower during the coldest months of the year and are not related to the rose.
Reprocessed from a very old photograph (2006)
Liriodendron or the tulip tree flower, and not related to the tulip!
A flower bud symbolises the hope for a brighter tomorrow
Photographed on one of my usual lunch time walks. The teasel (Dipsacus) has dry spiny inflorescence head that make lovely additions to floral arrangements!
Via Flickr:
Teasel – Black and White
Juridicious 