flowers – Juridicious

Dahlia-cious

A fire like glow on this deep yellow and orange dahlia photographed at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire.

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Red Anemone – backlit

Spring is finally here in Cambridge, and sunny days with blue skies open up a new vista for photography!

DSC_6477-Edit — Red anemone – see more on my Flickr page!

Camera Settings: ISO100, f/5.6, 1/250
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8

Red anemone

As promised, a picture of the red anemone flowering at home and complimenting the blue anemome that I posted previously.

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Camera settings: f/5.0, 1/80, ISO100
Lens Settings: f/2.8, 105mm Sigma macro lens
Camera: D7000

Daffodil

Surely nothing heralds more the coming of Spring than these cheerful daffodils. This variety is new to my garden and I’ve been so looking forward to them flowering!

I don’t have space to grow a full magnolia tree in the garden so I have these in large pots. The magnolia flowers are therefore smaller than one would find in trees. This is a white magnolia that has been in bloom since mid-March.

White Magnolia – See more viewing options on Flickr.

f/6.3, 1/500, ISO100, 105mm macro lens.

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!

Golden!

Spotted at the Cambridge University botanic garden. Beautiful golden wisps of what I think are decorative grass flowers/fruit!

Nikon D7000 with a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 lens. ISO200, f/5.0, 1/1250 seconds.

Once in a generation!

This week there was a surprise flowering at the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens. The plant known variously as Titan arum or Corpse flower bloomed after a gap of 11 years. Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) are native to Sumatra and are one of the worlds stinkiest and largest flowers described as rotting meat, moth balls, old socks etc.

Thankfully the worst of the smells are in the night time and I conveniently missed it! The photograph above is a HDR of 3 bracketed shots at -2, 0 and +2 stops. Shot with a 35mm f/1.8 Nikon lens on a Nikon D7000. Processed in Photomatix Pro.

Flaming Tulip

As most everyone else my visit to Keukenhof Tulip gardens 3 years ago resulted in the purchase of tulip bulbs. Many of these lasted one season only but the one below has been a repeat flowerer. The is the Estella Rijnveld Parrot Tulip with bright red and creamy wavy petals. They are indeed spectacular, are they not?
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Vibrant Rose!

There is this rose bush in my garden which struggles to survive every year regardless of what I try to do make it feel happy. But year on year it produces one or two of these really vibrant flowers in autumn! Just one of two roses sadly before the winter frosts kick in.

Technical Details:

Nikon D7000 with a 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens

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f/18, 1/250 second, ISO200
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Remote slave flash SB800
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