As promised, a picture of the red anemone flowering at home and complimenting the blue anemome that I posted previously.
Camera settings: f/5.0, 1/80, ISO100 Lens Settings: f/2.8, 105mm Sigma macro lens Camera: D7000
Red anemone
Tag: Nature
Tulip – 1
A tulip from my garden. I love the hint of yellow on the deep colours of the tulip suggesting a flame!
Camera Settings: ISO100, f/10, 1/20 Lens: 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens Camera: Nikon D7000
Christmas Cactus
This Schlumbergera truncata in my home is still flowering, well into April when I was expecting this to begin to set new branches for the coming year!
Technical details:
f/7.1, 1/30 second, ISO100, 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens, Nikon 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!
Blue anemone
I also have a bright red anemone flowering at the moment in my garden (pictures follow soon!). I have eliminated the background to better focus on this flower using Adobe Lightroom.
White magnolia
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.
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!
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
Stalked UFOs amongst us!
Continuing with the fungal theme, here’s one I thought looked a lot like a flying saucer on a stalk (maybe eating them may have that effect!). Or one of those rides in a fairground. I’m not sure of the exact mushroom type but this may be a sort of milkcap.
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!
Juridicious 