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English Primrose. At Mill Farm, Staple Fitzpaine in Somerset.
Did you know?
Queen Victoria used to send primroses to prime minister Benjamin Disraeli as they were his favourite flowers. (The Woodland Trust).
When walking the Lake Gunn Nature track recently I had some fun experimenting with close up's/macros images. A new playing field for me. As I discovered, not easy to get right ie find an interesting composition, get the lighting right, and consider impact of wind and weather. We found this beautiful delicate tiny alpine flower (Luzuriaga parviflora). A simple composition. Less is more. Often beauty takes time to discover. Lots of fun.
Beside the millstream at Staple Fitzpaine in Somerset.
Edible.
Not to be confused with Poison Hemlock. The chervil stem is hairy; hemlock is smooth.
If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. ~Marvin J. Ashton
Garlic, I'm guessing not a-peeling for every one, but it is for me, in the right amount!!
As a teenager I grew my own garlic in my bedroom, not that we had many vampires, if any, in North Wales. Mum and Dad thought I was a little bit weird, but at least they let me get it out of my system. Reputed to have many health giving properties it is also an excellent addition to many recipes. HMM.
March Of the Black Queen – A track from the Black side of the Album Queen 2.
Queen II was released in March 1974 and this particular track was written by the late, great and sadly missed Freddie Mercury. I was very young when the album was released and it was only as a teenager that I began to appreciate Queen as a Band. I have always loved this song, even though the band never really performed it live, and consider it to be one of my most favourite Queen songs!
I have managed to find a link to the song but be aware (in today's social climate) of some of it's vocal content. There are multiple chord and vocal changes within the song which lasts for approx 6 mins 30secs, and was probably Freddie's inspiration for Bohemian Rhapsody which came later. HMM.
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” ~Thomas Merton
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. –Blaise Pascal
I dug this out from the hard drive. I havent shot anything new in a year or more. I still have a few tucked away here and there, I may dig those out between now and when I get my new table built.
Thanks for looking, I hope everyone enjoys.
Here's a small bee I found in my back yard. I was searching for ballooning spiderlings that sometimes land on small pine trees and saw several small brown "things" stuck on the end of needles of several trees. Looking closely, they appeared to be small dead bees, similar to what's left after a jumping spider dines on one. They had the "dead bug" look... legs folded up underneath. I gently poked one and was surprised when it suddenly flew away. Viewing another through the viewfinder I could see that it was grasping the needle with its mandibles and just hanging off the end with its legs folded up. Checking a half dozen others scattered around my yard I noticed that all had hold of the needles near the end and their body unsupported.
Taken with an Olympus OM-D E-M1 mark II, 60mm f/2.8 macro lens, focused at infinity, with the objective from a Soligor 90-230mm zoom lens reverse mounted on the 60mm, lighting provided by a small external flash shot through a lens-mounted diffuser made from the plastic bowl that comes in a frozen dinner.
In experimenting with the macro lens I found that focusing at 1:1 "eats" light, something I hate to put up with. By focusing at infinity and getting to 1:1 using a supplemental lens, there's no loss of light. Using a variety of different supplemental lenses I can boost the magnification to about 5:1. It's a very good thing that the camera has image stabilization.
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Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
~Junichiro Tanizaki
The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. ~Katherine Paterson
Lotus seed mala
Round - Looking Closely on Friday
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
~ Maya Angelou
“It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.” ~Albert Einstein
Taken for this week's Macro Mondays theme 'Line Symmetry". This image is of my trusty, twenty-eight year old Filofax!
Image © 2018 Nicola Riley
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“So I will see the tiny purple flowers by the side of the road as I walk to town each day.” Munindraji, a vipassana meditation teacher's response when asked why he meditates