I've Always Loved these kinds of photos :)

5d2 & 24L

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A friend called my attention to this interesting fungal gall on a shrub at Howell Woods, Johnston County, NC (USA) on 25 April 2021. I believe it is...

Azalea Gall - Exobasidium rhododendri (Fuckel) C.E. Cramer

Synonym: Exobasidium vaccinii var. rhododentri.

Reference:

www.marylandbiodiversity.com/viewSpecies.php?species=10406

I am not sure of the hostplant. Looks like an azalea, but no sign of fruit or flowers. Leaves are deciduous and up to 9 cm long. Might be Rhododendron periclymenoides (Pinxter Flower) or the similar Rhododendron canescens (Mountain Azalea). One frame in this series has a detail of the leaves.

Update on ID 9/28/24. I think this is actually

Sweetleaf Gall - Exobasidium symploci

Looking at a couple of references on trees and shrubs, the form of the leaves matches sweetleaf (Symplocos). Petrides' Field Guide to Eastern Trees notes that the midrib in Symplocos is yellow, clearly visible here. Bud scales and twigs look correct. So I think that is a better fit.

Some discussion at:

www.inaturalist.org/observations/75552881

- Location: Dublin, Ireland

- Camera: Canon EOS 1000D

- Lens: Tamron AF 18-200mm

- Exposure: 1/20

- Aperture: f/6.3

- ISO Speed: 800

- Single RAW shot processed with Aperture 3.

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Chicory (Cichorium intybus) with creamy green bokeh.

Sharodiya Durgatsob 2011,

Amazing Lighting Display at FD Block, Salt Lake(Kolkata)

Bokeh on Kodak Portra 160 / Hasselblad 500cm

View On Black

This is on my roof. I was experimenting more with bokeh photography. This is the Tirboro Bridge in Astoria NY :)

Sweeeeeet.

HBW...I actually put my heart into it today! Hope you all have a great day today!

Araña en el botánico

Mar. 6, 2015

MINOLTA MAC-TELE QD

MINOLTA LENS 38mm F2.8 / 80mm F5.6

KONICAMINOLTA PAN400

MemoryHouse MIKI (NORITZ QSS)

A field of yellow daisies. Love how the background daisies have become yellow blur circles. Using Nikkor 70-200mm VR lens.

Good night ^^

I’ve been planning on doing a bokeh shot for some time, and finally made one today with my new NEX-3. This is our street at night when it’s a bit out of focus :-) Not quite happy with the result, will keep on trying.

Sony NEX-3 + Sony 18-55mm.

Completely SOOC (straight-out-of-camera fyi) image from one of the campus shoots that we do nearly every Thursday. It's simplicity drew me to it.

Another getting-it-in-early-because-I-have-a-big-and-probably-long-day-tomorrow.

HBW!

Nikon D40 - Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 Manual - 1/800s - ISO 200 - -2/3EV - Handheld

just some bokeh texture.

Fleur de mousse du jardin.

Sony A850 + Sony 135 mm F2.8 [T4.5] STF

Macro shot of the awesome bead tie I got last night

Time before a town blacks out.

Playing around with some night shots.. I particularly liked this one.

It was beginning to rain, so I didn't get the chance to take very many.

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A closeup of a wild orchid in the garden of a friend ind Bochum.

This is when the photoshoot started getting good. Thank the lord for Bokeh.

Taken with a Nikon D200 and 50mm f/1.8.

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