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water lily plants to be the pearls of the pool. Hardy water lilies (Nymphaea) are rightly prized for the beauty of their blooms and their heart shaped floating leaves.
The flowers come in a wide range of colours from pale pink through to the darkest of reds, white, yellow and orange. The colour of some alter becoming deeper as they age. All varieties of water lily bloom throughout the summer months. Starting in June the flowers appear in succession through to September.
Water lilies to suit the tiniest of pools up to the largest lake. The smallest dwarf lily can grow in as little as four inches depth of water with a spread of as little as one foot. While the largest can grow in five feet of water and reach five feet across.
Apart from their beauty and lovely scent, water lilies provide much needed shade for fish and their spawn. They help to reduce solar light levels in the pond thus leading to a reduction in the growth of algae
Love how after a good day of rain things are covered with waterdrops. My favorite is the ornamental grass seed heads.
our most precious commodity.
Macro Mondays. This week's theme: "Four Elements". (Water, Earth, Air and Fire). I chose Water.
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Marcoux Falls, Regional Natural Parc of Portneuf, Quebec, Canada - Chutes à Marcoux, Parc naturel régional de Portneuf
Well almost!.....The secretive and elusive Water Rail is one of our most difficult birds to photograph,but occasionally they will come into the open to feed as this one did today at Slimbridge,Gloucestershire.
Also known as the snake bird or water turkey, the anhinga is a year-round resident of Florida. It is also found from coastal sections of South Carolina westward to Texas and Mexico, and even south to Argentina.
Like cormorants, anhingas do not have oil glands for waterproofing their feathers and the feathers get wet when they are swimming.
You can often spot the anhinga perched on a branch with wings outstretched, drying feathers. They feed on small fish, shrimp, amphibians, crayfish and young alligators and snakes. The fact that their feathers are less water resistant than other birds helps them to swim underwater, where they often spear fish with their long neck and sharp beak. They surface in order to flip their catch into their mouth for consumption.
Mating generally occurs in February with egg-laying occurring throughout the spring and early summer. Nests are built in shoreline trees 15 to 20 feet high.
I found this one along Peavine Road in Osceola County, Florida.
I got my inspiration for this from 1ladybug (Corinne) and milikin (Annie) they have posted some really cute chippie shots so I thought I would pull out this little chippie sized watering can and put seeds in it and see what happened. I don't think I sat for 5 minutes before the action started!
Some silly fun for Sunday!
With a shutter speed of 1/10thsec, up to my waist in water (wearing waders) and holding the camera inches above the water whilst balancing on boulders, The canon R5 with the RF 24-105 lens, demonstrates how remarkable the stabilisation is on this camera and lens.
The river water is high enough to submerge the trunks of the trees on the shore, but not enough to cause any trouble.
Sorry... just been enjoying myself! I manually focussed to try and emphasise the light reflecting off the water. I've never actually intentionally done this before, it's just maybe happened if I've been focussing on something floating/swimming on the surface. It was quite tricky as I was shooting into the sun that although was low-ish in the sky was still very bright, probably not a great idea as I was seeing stars for a while after!
Canon EOS 550D EF70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
ƒ/5.6 300.0 mm 1/4000 ISO 100
Old water pump amongst thistles! Found this on a photo adventure and it added some contrast to the thistles in the foreground.
Water Valve from the original Lake Manchester Dam in Queensland (Dates to around 1912)
Camera: Pentax K1000
Lens: Pentax 50mm F2.8
Film: Ilford XP2 Super 400 (Exp: Nov 2017)
Settings: F2.8 1/1000th
Development: HC-110, Dilution E (1+47) @10 minutes
These grow in vast numbers along the Thames Estuary so I always try to capture one or two each year. Here is this year’s first effort.
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Single shot, natural light from right, raw file into Affinity Photo. Canon EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens.
From the Richard Harvey Studio One