RHS Wisley

2nd August 2020

One of my favourite hovers, big, fat and lazy and easily identifiable

New Mini Challenge # 222 ~ The Award Tree ~

~ Mystical Light! ~ The Award Tree ~

Bog Asphodel - Narthecium ossifragum, found growing near to the Round-leaved Sundew on a dark boggy section of the heathland in the New Forest, Hampshire. Another 'first' for me :) I love it's 'bottle brush' spikes!

Info from The Wildlife Trusts.

The sulphur yellow, star-like flowers of Bog Asphodel brighten up our browny-green peat bogs, damp heaths and moors in early summer. Borne on spikes, the flowers appear from June to August; as they fruit in autumn, the plants turn deep orange, continuing to colour the bogs. Bog Asphodel produces creeping rhizomes (underground stems) from which it can reproduce; however, it also produces seeds and its flowers attract a range of pollinating insects.

On the one day I leave without my 10-22mm, I come across this. Work brought me to Stephenville, NL today and the bogs are alive in their autumn splendor. It's like a big red carpet and the vast openness just screams for a wide angle lens.

Edited in Darktable and Gimp.

Morning at Splinter Hill Bog.

www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/united...

Blutsee, Irtenberger Wald, Germany

Texture courtesy of Parée: www.flickr.com/photos/pareeerica/

an idea Ephran came up with ages back and we only managed to get photos just the other night.

its out of my norm of pretty faces ....but Ephran has a great eye for detail and a wonderful imagination, so i don't hesitate when he wants to dress me up !

He mostly played with the photography, but i did one shot of my own.

Thank you for a wonderful night of your company Eph.

<3

A quiet,country lane running alongside the River Brathay in the English Lake District.

Eurasian Dotterel.

This looks like all solid land but it is actually a bog. It is so thick that I can walk on it without falling through. You can feel the squishy nature of it though. :D

I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D

Disclaimer: Not actually the moon, but I was at a bog.

Washi on gold leaf

Ringoogparelmoervlinder (Boloria eunomia) Germany.

Welcome to my hoods! :)

New Forest, Hampshire

Our smallest orchid, these were little more than an inch high and incredibly hard to spot

A 1 km boardwalk around Clara Bog Nature Reserve

I captured this on an early fall morning a few years ago.

Thanks for stopping by

Thanks for any and all feedback

The alpine bog on the San Gottardo Pass on a misty autumn morning

Discovering new trails in our backyard is awesomely fun.

A view of the boardwalk at Sifton Bog in London Ontario

This was shot near Mo i Rana in Northern-Norway.

Some specs: Nikon D800 with AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED and Lee 0.6 GND Hard Edge. Remote trigger, Benro Carbon Traveler Flat II tripod..

bog body empire

[Polaroid SX-70 Alpha / Impossible SX-70 BW production 11/2016 / April 2017]

Cattails in the winter afternoon sun.

Narthecium ossifragum (Moorlilie), New Forest

Not troubled water this time, that time is over :D

Ok, it's a play with words. The photo is from my trip a little more than a month ago to Bradford Bog in NH. I already got some good autumn colors at that time. The bog is a fascinating place, e.g. I saw pitcher plants (carnivorous!) in the wild.

White cedars grow happily in Bradford’s Bog, NH. I was glad to visit the serene woods with just my camera.

I never knew how beautiful bogs could be before this short 10 minute walk!

Taken along the Bog Trail, which is a trail located in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, in Nova Scotia, Canada.

The eerie chill of a lowland bog in the mist will send chills up anyone's spine. A distant howl or the movement in the trees...What lays beyond is unknown, until it is.

Happy Halloween