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In Davos, Switzerland.
In 1907 a flower garden was laid out for the recreation of the patients of the tuberculosis clinic Sanatorium Schatzalp, described in detail in Thomas Mann's novel "Der Zauberberg" (The Magic Mountain). In the meantime it has been extended up the valley to become a botanical garden of international significence.
Processed with the facilities of the Pentax K-1.
SMC Pentax-DA 55-300mm
Hoya Softener (A)
Pentax K-1
Do view large and zoom in to see the unusual background bokeh effect created by the micro lenses on the surface of the Hoya soft-focus filter.
HSS!
Irises flowering at 1800m above sea-level in the Alpine Garden of the "Berghotel Schatzalp" by Davos in Switzerland. The hotel was built in 1898-1900 as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients and provided the setting for Thomas Mann's famous novel "The Magic Mountain" ("Der Zauberberg"). The alpine garden dates back to 1907.
Taken with an especially adapted SMC Pentax-M 50mm f:1.7 "Soft" lens, with an additional "Duto" filter (a plain glass filter with concentric rings). The lens has a perforated disc inserted in the optical path. The unusual bokeh is the result of this combination. SOOC (Best viewed "Large" on full-screen!)
PENTAX K-1
HBW!
Some sort of tulip, which looks like a wild Turkish variety to my untrained eye. My suspicion is either Tulipa sprengeri (Sprenger's tulip) or Tulipa orphinadia (wild orange tulip) as despite the colour some images of this variety look very close. I don't think any of these have opened yet, which doesn't help trying to identify them. I have also removed many a blemish and yellowish discoloration which would not help trying to ID it from this processed image.
Taken at dusk, half an hour before sunset.
First time I have seen these, likely a recent addition. Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand.
Pulsatilla vulgaris (Purple pasque flower) on a spring evening. I am not sure what the little pink flowers are - some sort of 'ground cover' plant which certainly adds interest (hopefully not too much - I think it works).
This was taken at dusk - 20mins before sunset, however clouds (or perhaps trees) meant it was already very dim and subdued, which gives the shot some great mood I feel, and I loved the background I was able to get using some nearby buds from yet another plant.
Normally I'm all about bright and colourful, but I like to vary things a bit, and these pasque flowers and their hairy petals/stems really come into their own at dusk I find.
Christchurch botanic gardens, New Zealand.
Veratrum nigrum_Schwarzer Germer_Melanthiaceae
www.belvedere.at/en/museum/gardens/alpine-garden
El jardí alpí de Belvedere és el jardí alpí més antic d'Europa i va ser fundat el 1803 per l'arxiduc Johann. Des de 1865 es troba a l'Alt Belvedere: l'entrada des del pati anterior. [Google Translator] Font: www.oepb.at/allerlei/die-osterreichischen-bundesgarten.html
Aquest Jardí Alpí és un tresor botànic.
Linking the two palaces, the superb Belvedere Gardens contains numerous sculptures adorning its many pools. It was designed according to Hildebrandt's overall concept of a terraced park laid out along an axis with cascades and symmetrical flights of stairs bordered by hedges and paths. At the foot of the gardens lies the Underworld with Pluto and Proserpina, along with Neptune and Thetis, the deities of water, in the area where the cascades play, together with Apollo and Hercules
Colourful Crocus in our alpine garden bring welcome signs of spring and thoughts of warmer days ahead.…
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Seen in the "Alpinum Schatzalp", a botanical garden with around 6000 different plants 1800m above sea-level in the grounds of the "Berghotel Schatzalp" overlooking the town of Davos in Switzerland.
Snapped with an almost unique lens - an SMC Pentax-M 50mm f:1.7 "Soft". ( For more information see my previous photo and my album...)
PENTAX K-1
DUTO filter (plain glass with concentric rings).
Pentax in-camera processing: RAW-converter, cropping (square format), basic parameters (colour saturation, colour tone, contrast), "Toy camera" (vignetting, colour tone).
HSS!
Pulsatilla vulgaris (Purple pasque flower) on a spring evening. I am not sure what the little pink flowers are - some sort of 'ground cover' plant which certainly adds interest.
This was taken at dusk - right on sunset.
Normally I'm all about bright and colourful, but I like to vary things a bit, and these pasque flowers and their hairy petals/stems really come into their own at dusk I find.
Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand.
Alpine Trails Mt Rainier Washington.
Crazy wild flowers if you get the timing right up in the alpine trails of Mt Rainier. Sept 2012
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A pair of Pulsatilla vulgaris (Purple pasque flower) on a spring evening. I am not sure what the little pink flowers are - some sort of 'ground cover' plant which certainly adds interest (hopefully not too much - I think it works).
I like to think these look like a pair of lamp posts.
This was taken at dusk - 10mins before sunset, however clouds (or perhaps trees) meant it was already very dim and subdued, which gives the shot some great mood I feel, and I loved the background I was able to get using some nearby buds from yet another plant.
Normally I'm all about bright and colourful, but I like to vary things a bit, and these pasque flowers and their hairy petals/stems really come into their own at dusk I find.
Christchurch botanic gardens, New Zealand.
Crocus growing amongst some broom like ground hugging plant. Alpine Garden, Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand.
These caught me by surprise being out late July (usually the coldest part of winter) - It has been an extremely mild winter, and while I expect this sort of carry on from the narcissus, snowdrops and other excitable species, I had though these guys had a keener sense of propriety and would not be out quite yet.
Or indeed it is just as likely these are a resurgence of autumn blooming crocus as 3 months prior i was photographing very similar looking blooms in the exact same spot, so inclined to believe these might be autumn-blooming crocuses come back out of season rather than spring-blooming ones come out early. On the other hand, some of the other crocuses out just now are definitely the ones I expect in spring.
The seasons just get weirder the more we mess up our planet.
Rob Comfort in the Alpine Garden. That’s Tuckerman Ravine and Boott Spur in the background. Four of us climbed up there, just below the summit of a mountain with the fiercest (recorded) winds on the planet, and camped out in a light 5 mile per hour breeze. To quote an Arwazoo: This is how I roll :o)
Taken with a Steinheil München Auto-D-Quinaron 35mm f:2,8 lens on a Sony a7C, here with the aperture wide open giving a soft dreamy image. The lens focusses down to 20cm.
For comparison, I've posted a sharp version (taken at f:8) next door!
Caedicia simplex (Katydid, Green katydid, Kiki Pounamu) later-stage nymph resting on what I imagine must be Lilium lancifolium 'Flore Pleno' (aka Lilium tigrinum 'Flore Pleno') at the Christchruch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand.
A male Danaus plexippus (Monarch butterfly) a bit the worse for wear feeding on some pink Phlox subulata (creeping phlox, moss phlox, alpine phlox) flowers in a garden bed at Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand.
The image is a bit cluttered with the yellowing and purpling decaying portions of the flowers, but it compliments the aged and dignified state of this butterfly - with rents in his wings, and alternating between leaping and crawling between flowers.
His majesty was regularly soaring up to see off the incursions of a smaller, fresher looking young whippersnapper of an upstart prince/princess that looked to be eyeing up his kingdom (and perhaps making pointed comments about the royal succession). After the previous battle was over, and the enemy seen off, he collapsed gasping to the flower bed to recover his strength and bear up for the next assault on his sovereignty. Besieged, beaten down, and refusing to abdicate.
Cropped and a touch of sharpening applied, otherwise untouched camera jpeg.