from our garden

Taken in our very, windy garden this morning with my macro lens (no VR and hand-held).

In my garden today

A Wild Geranium in the sunshine - Vail, Colorado

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I have just returned from Kobe. The rain is heavy now. I hope the typhoon will not attack directly to Tokyo.

HPPT!

Iris et Géranium à feuilles cendrées au jardin alpin du Lautaret au col du Lautaret

Géraniacée de 20-60 cm à rosette de feuilles alternes, puis tige à feuilles bractéales opposées, longuement pétiolées et à limbe arrondi. Limbes profondément découpés en 5-7 segments trilobés, rougissant en fin d'été. Inflorescence caractéristique par les pédoncules uniflores. Sépales étalés et pétales veinés sans onglet de 1,5-2 cm, d'un pourpre éclatant, légèrement émarginés au sommet, sur des pédoncules axillaires. Etamines à filets ciliés inférieurement. Carpelles poilus au sommet, non ridés.

Autres noms français : Bec de grue sanguin, Herbe à becquet, Sanguinaire (allusion à la couleur des fleurs et des tiges, mais aussi à l'action hémostatique de la plante, riche en tanin comme d'autres Géraniums). Espèce de demi-ombre, xérothermophile, sur des substrats relativement pauvres en nutriments. Inféodée à l'habitat sensible des ourlets oligotrophiques, elle a globalement régressé voire complètement disparu de plusieurs secteurs franciliens (cf. H des Abbayes, P Fournier et P Jauzein).

Trying out the macro facility on the FujiX20 - my garden is full of this plant, a hardy geranium

Taken with A7II & Soligor 75 - 250 f4.5 with Nikon 5T Close Up Filter

The plant has been on our back deck since late spring. Warm weather in Birmingham has permitted it to survive into November. This is a somewhat staged image. The plant is in a hanging container but I set it on the deck rail so the camera & lens could be brought close to the bloom cluster which was in front of a full bloom and blur the full bloom.

Flower of the Geranium

Duthie Park Aberdeen

Geranium decorated at the house wall was found at Hayama.

Another win for the "enthusiast compact". I'm certainly enthusiastic about this little camera. It might not have a ton of megapixels (10), but it takes amazingly good pictures. I rarely have to do much of anything to the RAW files, and it will come in quite close while at a moderate zoom to control the background. It's not the equal of my DSLR in flexibility, but it's a heck of a lot easier to cart around, which means I take more pictures. That's always a good thing... you never get the shot you see when your camera is at home.

Wild Geranium

Identified as Geranium incanum, a South African species. Known as ~

English: Carpet Geranium; Cape Crane's Bill; Afrikaans: Vrouetee; Bergtee;

Sesotho: Ngope-sethsoha; and Tlaka; Hlapi-e-kholo

From kumbulanursery.co.za/plants/geranium-incanum

5 petals (Fibonacci number).

Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2013 All Rights Reserved.

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ScavChal May #11 ~ Make a common weed look pretty.

I'm replacing the earlier Wildflower image with this one we now know is Geranium incanum,

a South African species of wild geraniums.

Pictures of leaves below in the comments...

Ooievaarsbek

Canon Powershot SX50 HS + Raynox DCR-250 macro lens.

Even when the marine layer is thick, these blossoms shine brightly!

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Petits rescapés costauds

Feed 'em, water 'em and they will produce flowers for a long time.

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Digital Camera

The geranium wintered in my house, and now it is loving the outdoors.

Geranio

taken at Pt. Defiance Park in Tacoma Wash..

(best viewed large)

First of the geraniums to flower in the garden.

There's something in those reds that fire up my retinas.

Some of the buds have bloomed since last photographed.

Again a different set up:

Camera D810

Lens AFS 70-300mm 4.5-5.6 VR

Filter Nikon 5T (Used a step down ring to fit 62mm filter to 67 mm threads on lens)

Tolerates hot weather better than I do;-)

I went into the garden this afternoon armed with a tripod, my Canon fitted via adapter to an Olympus 80mm macro lens with its zoom tube attachment and took five shots in rapid succession and then focus stacked in Photoshop.