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Ramsons .....
This is what the plant looks like when it's emerging .... I love to look at it when it's just split open like this.
(See next shot for other stages.)
Nina bought me a succlent plant last year and it is going to be covered in flowers very soon.
Have a wonderful week.
There are over 90 species of sundew. The majority are found in Australia and South Africa, but they also grow in hot, humid areas of Georgia, Florida and other similar climates. The plants prefer acidic soils and are usually where there is a bog or marsh and often grow on top of sphagnum moss.
I have this bush in front of my front door. It had a very hard time in the last year. The summer was way too hot and the winter too cold....lucky to see new buds coming up :-)
"Flower Buds"
"Looking close...on Friday!"
This brightly painted Camellia bud caught my eye and I could not resist taking a macro shot of it, at Queen Victoria's Garden, Melbourne.
Hope you like listening to Celine Dion singing " The Colour of My Love "
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UvJUZ_08Uk
Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and faves...it is always appreciated..
Happy Friday
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This is my last post in a couple of weeks. I'll be off for some vacation with the family in Sweden. I do consider this shot sort of iconic picture of the bokeh serie I've been posting and surely there are more interesting of the genre but in this I find a great clarity of the buds vs that background bokeh making it sort of the representative shot. I dedicate this to all flickr photographers out there that showed me the world of bokeh and that made me curios about it and particularly to *ᕈᗩᕰᒪ that also introduced me technically to this kind of photography. He explained that you don't need the most expensive gear to get the best bokeh result, the contrary with a used prime lens (which one can find used for about 30-60 euro) you can do marvelous things. And it was exactly what I did find, a superb little gem. The pentax m50 f1.7!
So gear do count yes but that doesn't mean that it must necessarily cost a lot of money.
By the way check out *ᕈᗩᕰᒪ's amazing stream!
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Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (all shots with this lens till 95% aperture at 2.0)
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It was evening time with practically very poor light!! Tried to fix an artificial light source but found the results not quite impressive so carried on with fading light!
They are double hibiscus bud!
Due to a good natural harbor and rich fisheries, Bud grew to become the largest village between the towns of Trondheim and Bergen on the west coast of Norway during the Middle Ages.
At the death of King Frederick I in 1533, it was the site of the last independent Norwegian Privy Council, organized by Olav Engelbrektsson, Archbishop of Nidaros. The meeting led to a failed attempt to break away from the Kalmar Union and King Christian III, and claim Norway's independence by rejecting the Protestant Reformation. The council was the last of its kind in Norway for 270 years.
In 1838, the whole parish of Bud was established as Bud Municipality. The municipality was reduced in size in 1918 when Hustad Municipality was created
Information by Wikipedia.
Texture's & Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
The fishing village has a rich history, and in the 16th century Bud was one of the largest trading venues between Bergen and Trondheim. There are several good fish restaurants in Bud.
Make a stop at Ergan Kystfort, a war history museum built around the German coastal fort of World War II, and the Coastal Museum, which is a two-story cultural history exhibition. In the middle of Bud lies a bird mountain which during the breeding season houses a colony of black-legged kittiwakes. You can also walk the "coastal path" with a number of information boards telling of Bud's history
Information by The Norwegian Tourist Board.
Texture's and Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul - Luther Burbank
This bud's for me...alone in the spotlight of sun in the garden, ready to spring into a beautiful spray of agapanthus blooms and a tiny drop of dew at the top to make it special.