The rain and the damp here in East England has meant that there is a sudden explosion of mushrooms. Large and small, normal and strangely shaped, they’re all shooting up everywhere.. Here’s a tiny tiny mushroom that was shot at the closest approach I could make with my phone! I have selectively desaturated the background for emphasis.
Tag: Autumn
Blowin’ in the wind!
My workplace is also home to a wetland habitat. The wild grassland bordering is a haven for moths, butterflies and damselflies that thrive on the plentiful thistles. I find them especially beautiful when they set winged soft silky winged seeds ready to be blown by the gentlest breeze.
Autumn Rose
Autumn 2015 has been particularly great for roses here in Cambridge. My garden was full of roses in their second blooming flush this year and some are still in bloom (in November). This particular english rose has heavy blooms that almost bend the thin branches to the ground.
This photograph has a natural black background generated by the use of a off-camera slave flash at right angles combined with a small aperture f/11 and exposure time of 1/250. Click on the photo for options to view this in larger size on Flickr.
Technical Details:
Nikon D7000, 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens f/11, 1/250, ISO100 Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC
Autumnal colour
Some trees change colour gradually, some rapidly like this one below. Took less than 2 weeks to go from green ṭo the lovely reds!
Musk mallow
Malva moschata (Malvaceae) – lovely pink flowers, usually found growing wild in meadows (like this one!) 
Autumn is in the air!
This afternoon while taking a short walk after lunch, I spotted this red currant tree resplendent in autumnal colours! And it is only mid-September.
Photographed using an iPhone 5s, auto settings. Merely added watermark in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Arachnophobia!
It is that time of the year again! Autumn – when gigantic spiders make their way into the house and make webs in every available nook and cranny! And this one below (garden cross spider) made a huge web (almost a metre in diameter) between my beans and tomato plants.. Shudder!!!
Lighting up autumn
A leaf in autumn
“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!”
A Leaf
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower – Albert Camus
Juridicious 