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As seen growing in my yard. A little sliding to monochrome but honestly, most of the sliding was done by me on my belly trying to get that perfect composition for these low growing little blooms. Happy Slider Sunday!
Meyer Optik 50mm f/1.8 Oreston, single image shot at f/2.0. Probably with Nikon PK-12, 14mm extension tube.
Lifespan: Sept. 25 - Oct. 24, 2022
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
Put 9 different growth stages of the same fungi together into one frame
ready to upload for the group
Canon EOS 450D - EF 70-300 mm IS USM
ƒ/5.6
1/60 Sec
ISO 400
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Pentax K-5
Helios 44-2 58mm F/2
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Buttercups for Crazy Tuesday flowers.
😄 HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday 😄
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Using several bits of different obscure methods to get the tones how I wished them lol...I have once again many things on my mind so I messing about on PC yesterday...
Wishing everyone a wonderful Friday.....apologies to those people I may accidently not have caught up with... Sue
In the language of flowers the buttercup means childishness and richness. In my eyes richness means to save the following experience as a treasure in your memories:
I remember once walking out hand in hand with a boy I knew, and it was summer, and suddenly before us was a field of gold. Gold as far as you could see. We knew we'd be rich forever. We filled our pockets and our hair. We were rolled in gold. We ran through the field laughing and our legs and feet were coated in yellow dust, so that we were like golden statues or golden gods. He kissed my feet, the boy I was with, and when he smiled, he had a gold tooth. It was only a field of buttercups, but we were young.
Jeanette Winterson
For Smile on Saturday - floriography
The meadows around are full of cheery buttercups which make me smile :)
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Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.
Julia Caroline Dorr
"Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew."
— Julia Caroline Dorr
From a large genus of flowering plants called Ranunculus, it grows in the wild in many places. It is poisonous to eat for humans and cattle but when dry the poison is not active.
It is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae. Members of the genus are known as buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots. The familiar and widespread buttercup of gardens throughout Northern Europe (and introduced elsewhere) is the creeping buttercup Ranunculus repens, which has extremely tough and tenacious roots. Two other species are also widespread, the bulbous buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus and the much taller meadow buttercup Ranunculus acris. All three are often regarded as invasive weeds. Buttercups usually flower in the spring, but flowers may be found throughout the summer, especially where the plants are growing as opportunistic colonizers, as in the case of garden weeds. The water crowfoots (Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium), which grow in still or running water, are sometimes treated in a separate genus Batrachium. They have two different leaf types, thread-like leaves underwater and broader floating leaves. In some species, such as R. aquatilis, a third, intermediate leaf type occurs. Ranunculus species are used as food by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Hebrew character and small angle shades. Some species are popular ornamental flowers in horticulture, with many cultivars selected for large and brightly coloured flowers. Buttercups are mostly perennial, but occasionally annual or biennial, herbaceous, aquatic or terrestrial plants, often with leaves in a rosette at the base of the stem. In many perennial species runners are sent out that will develop new plants with roots and rosettes at the distanced nodes. 12306