Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I feel like this daisy looks: wilted in the humidity. It’s hard to find the energy to get out and shoot when the dog days come, and it’s not even August yet.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We just had a very fast and violent thunderstorm, poured rain with lightning and thunder for a half hour, then it was over as fast as it started. Everything’s soaked, dripping and steamy and I’m thinking flowers and water droplets. The good news is, now lawn mowing today. Yes!
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I spent an hour photographing beautiful, perfect dogwood blooms and then I ran across this old one going by. Some might say that young, beautiful flowers are the thing, but give me old flowers going by, they have character and are much more interesting to photograph.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. We were early for yoga class this morning and next door to the building the class is held in is a small herb garden. Anne rolled her eyes and groaned when I broke out the macro gear to see about a picture of this lavender plant before class started.
I didn’t know lavender [...]
Posted in Creatures, Flowers and Trees, Places on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut, Macricostas Preserve. This little flower is about one half in across (this is not a daisy) and after going to all the trouble to set up the tripod and get things lined up, an intruder dropped in. I figured he’d leave soon enough but he stayed for twenty minutes so I gave up, [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Landscape on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut, Macricostas Preserve. This is one stalk of grass from this field. I was on the edge of the field today attempting to take pictures of bugs and thought the grass looked just as good.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Jun 18th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Another gerber daisy, this one pink. Yeah, I know, enough already with these weird flowers. We bought six plants though, all different colors, so I have to document them, right?
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Another of our recently acquired gerber daisies open in the sun. The petals and stamen on these flowers are so photogenic I can’t stop shooting them. I know, enough already with the gerber daisies.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Jun 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Two things that took me too long to learn about photography: overcast days can make for better color saturation and easier exposure setups, and flowers going by can be as interesting as flowers at their peak.
I’m still using a rented Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens and enjoying it.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We just got back from our friend Nora’s nursery and I picked up a bunch of photogenic gerber daisies. This must be the year of the daisy for me. This one has a few buds that are just opening up, very nice petals from all sides.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I rented the Canon 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens for a week and I have to say, it’s quite a nice lens for these types of shots. The longer (than 100mm) focal length makes for nice compression and the lens makes nice colors and beautiful bokeh. It’s a beast though so one really [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 13th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Suffice to say that I did not get under this daisy with a 300mm lens and shoot up, it was bent over so I had an opportunity to shoot the beautiful underside of it from the side.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The problem with shooting blooms on trees is that even on a dwarf tree the blooms can be high enough so it’s difficult to shoot down on them without having a tripod that can get your camera higher and for me (5 feet 6 inches) a small step ladder. I have the tripod [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Jun 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My friend Zarinna called me up to let me know that her peonies are going by, best get over to shoot them. It was a windy day and I took a lot of shots, few of which turned out. This is a very large bloom, close to eight inches across.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on Jun 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I was sitting here in my bathrobe, reading the postmortem of the big political weekend and I noticed that the morning sun was starting to illuminate the clump of daisies that my wife made me mow around (good thinking Anne). Thinking of Duncan’s flower on the other side of the world, I gathered [...]
Posted in Creatures, Flowers and Trees, Places on Jun 1st, 2008 6 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. I found a clump of yellow daisies in the herb garden and there were a few bees working them. This is another bee that seems to be more successful in collecting pollen, or, is really well hung, or both.
Posted in Creatures, Flowers and Trees, Places on May 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. I found a clump of yellow daisies in the herb garden and there were a few bees working them. This bee stomped around on the stamen of this flower, hoping to pick up some stamen.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 30th, 2008 4 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. Can you imagine falling into this molten pit, struggling to get out only to find that you can’t get a grip on these pollen encrusted stamen. What a way to go.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. This fern has an interesting embossment on it that reminds me of the stitching on a pair of jeans. I wonder what purpose the embossment serves on the leaf structurally. Could it be like the "creases" in the sheet metal of car bodies, put in to give those large expanses [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. The variety of plants in the Huntington herb garden is mind boggling. One has to look closely as they’re growing on top of one another but an hour there will turn up some wild stuff, like this spiny meteorite.
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