RHS Wisley

29th August 2021

“Pour être simple, il faut beaucoup apprendre.”

Olga Sedakova

Thank you very much for your comments and for your faves.

(Please do not use without my written permission.

For Macro Mondays theme, "Behind Glass". Height of the stem in this image is approximately 2.3 inches

Just playing around on a rainy day.

Macro monday: Spiky

Fall plant detailed by frost. If anyone can identify this, let me know. I don't have enough botanical knowledge to make an efficient enough search right now.

— Theodore Tollefson

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FAVES

ON THE REACTIONS I WILL TRY TO RESPOND BACK

~ aziza "likey?"

For Judy.. Just because:)

After reading all the good things you guys wrote about my work over the month of march I am truly touched.. thank you so much my beautiful friends.. I wouldn't have done anything without your constant support and inspiration:)

HGGT to you all

Explore# 327

Sunrise at Ponta de Caracaraí, Rio Arapiuns, an Amazon tributary, Santarém, with our boat, Don Giuseppe anchored for the night.

spirea macro from the back

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flower (Daisy) stem .....rip detail where I pulled the single bloom

from the multiple bloom stem.

A close-up view of the same sunset, shooting straight into the sun through the wild flora along the ridge. Simple, minimal, and completely backlit by that final burst of fiery orange.

Dandelion macro

Baby euphorbia plants with attractive red stems, growing in beach sand, on Kangaroo Island.

California State University Fullerton

I have been thinking lately that I need to take some wider angle photos and it is difficult when I enjoy the world close up and macro. My next goal should be wide lens work of people and places.

A Spotless Ladybug climbs the stem of a flower.

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It is in late autumn when the leaves are on the ground that you notice the character of the leaf. The veins and stem have always been there but are not as noticeable in the summer when the leaf is green and still connected to the tree.

Stems of the Stipa shrub growing on the edge of the pinery within the Kuneevsky forest area in Togliatti

And shades of orange

Dotted Stem Bolete / Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling / Neoboletus erythropus

Stem

Captured for Macro Mondays theme: spiral. HMM everyone!

Waiting for the dusky night, the function is lost by the twilight

+LITERALLY+

[] HaMeD!caL []

Field of smiles near my house.

for Macro Mondays. Compared with the large bowl, the long stems on my posh wine glasses seem very slender and fragile, and I always take great care when handling them.

The five other glasses are reflected in this one stem.

Miscellaneous Composition; ©2011 DianaLee Photo Designs

Three Legged Cross, Dorset

Cabbage Stem Weevil [Ceutorhynchus pallidactylus]

COLEOPTERA > Curculionoidea (Weevils) >

Curculionidae (True Weevils) > Ceutorhynchinae

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This minuscule Ceutorhynch (Seed) Weevil was no more than 3mm long and proved to be one of the most difficult insects that I've tried photographing. Looking at it in this shot you get no idea how small they are!

I may not be able to respond to your kind comments and visits as we are without hydro at the moment until it gets restored - I am just popping in and out for now.

For those wondering I am on the mends from my cataract operation and find that I only need off the shelf cheaters right now to read.

I was "admonished" (not seriously) by an acquaintance yesterday for not using my Hasselblad enough, so today I accepted the challenge to make some images with it. This frame made use of the 0.5 Proxar closeup filter.

Film: Ilford FP4+ (lovely stuff) processed in iffy Xtol.

For Macro Mondays - Glass

Wine glass stem

At the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

I was out early one morning with only the big lens, looking for wildlife. No luck there, but I was very glad I noticed this frost on these red stems. I don't know what the plant is. I've been bringing my macro lens every day since, but frost this nice doesn't happen very often. Siskiyou County, California

Looking very bare, the semaphore masts at North Orleans on the Hoosier Sub.