A fire like glow on this deep yellow and orange dahlia photographed at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire.
Dahlia-cious
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Seeds and Spider
A new job has meant that I have not been able to devote as much time as I’d like towards photography and maintaining my blog. Nevertheless, I’m determined to make a new beginning starting with this post!
This was shot at the Eden Project in Cornwall earlier this year. See the photo in large size to appreciate the detail on the seed head. Also can you spot a tiny spider photobombing this composition? 🙂
The V1 flying bomb
The Imperial War Museum in Duxford has a fantastically preserved German V1 flying bomb dating back to 1944-1945. The V1 is one of the earliest weapons to use a pulsejet engine. With an effective range of 160 miles over 9000 of these were launched at the United Kingdom between June and October 1944 till their launch sites were overrun by Allied advances.
The above photo is a composite of 3 shots bracketed at -2, 0 and 2 eV and merged in Photomatix Pro.
Poppies..
Red on black-and-white is such a cool combination of colours. Red poppies in a wheat field, memories of a summer gone by!
Thanksgiving Cactus (Schlumbergera)
Also known as christmas cactus (but it is flowering here in Cambridge just in time for Thanksgiving), Schlumbergera’s are a strange sort of cactus plants. They have stems that look like leaf-like pads connected to one another. The flowers form at the terminal end of the plant. I grew mine from a small two segment section taken from a friends house and popped into a pot.
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Technical Data
Nikon D7000, Sigma 105mm f/2.8 Macro Lens ISO400, f/13, 3 seconds
Cones and stuff..
Found these cones and various seed pods carefully arranged at Allan Bank in Grasmere. Made a nice study of various natural textures contrasting with the surface. Photographed with a Nikon D7000.
Golden Grass
Golden plumes of decorative flowers captured in golden sunlight!
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ISO200, 1/1000 second, f/5.0 with a 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens. Nikon D7000.
Ely Cathedral on Christmas Night
This is a photograph of the historic Ely cathedral on christmas day. 3 pictures are exposures between 14 and 52 seconds were bracketed to produce this picture.
 Processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photomatix Pro.
Christmas Candle…
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world – William Shakespeare
Technical Details: Nikon D7000 with Sigma 105mm f/2.8 lens f/16, 15 second exposure
Artichoke!
The artichoke (Cynara cardunculus) is a type of thistle whose unopened buds (hearts) are used in Mediterranean cuisine. The photograph below is that of the wild (and therefore inedible variety) artichoke, also known as cardoon. That the artichoke is closely related to the thistle is clear from the purple head of petals that sit on top of the flower.
Photographed at the New York Botanical Gardens on 22nd July, 2013 using an iPhone 4S. Later processed in Adobe Lightroom simulating a single frame HDR.
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