The Orange Blossom Special
Special indeed - it is four years almost to the day when I last photographed my orange deciduous azalea. Although it has always put out new leaves every year, this is the first time it has produced any flowers since 2017, and it only managed one small cluster. So it was very timely for the Macro Mondays theme 'Orange' - Brian and I would like to send our best wishes to Hans for a speedy recovery.
I really did try to shoot for this theme without using a snail, and did come up with a couple of options - in any event, I haven't seen many snails this year (so far). But the orange azalea was too good to pass up, and little Brian was then found on one of my hosta plants.
This was shot first thing in the morning in order to get the nice backlight glow through the shell and body of little Brian - this makes Brian almost the same colour as the flowers.
The Orange Blossom Special was actually a deluxe passenger train on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad that ran in the eastern United States from 1925 to 1953. It gave its name to a bluegrass fiddle tune written in 1938.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph. Brian was returned to my garden, but far away from the hostas.
The Orange Blossom Special
Special indeed - it is four years almost to the day when I last photographed my orange deciduous azalea. Although it has always put out new leaves every year, this is the first time it has produced any flowers since 2017, and it only managed one small cluster. So it was very timely for the Macro Mondays theme 'Orange' - Brian and I would like to send our best wishes to Hans for a speedy recovery.
I really did try to shoot for this theme without using a snail, and did come up with a couple of options - in any event, I haven't seen many snails this year (so far). But the orange azalea was too good to pass up, and little Brian was then found on one of my hosta plants.
This was shot first thing in the morning in order to get the nice backlight glow through the shell and body of little Brian - this makes Brian almost the same colour as the flowers.
The Orange Blossom Special was actually a deluxe passenger train on the Seaboard Air Line Railroad that ran in the eastern United States from 1925 to 1953. It gave its name to a bluegrass fiddle tune written in 1938.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph. Brian was returned to my garden, but far away from the hostas.