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Thinking about this week's Crazy Tuesday theme of "Trees and Leaves"and while our trees are just getting underway, the leaves seem to be turning brown and dropping at the same time. The jury's still out on a nice colorful Fall but we'll see in the upcoming days/weeks. I love the look of the hickory tree with it's compound leaf but I've already posted one of the leaflets so I needed something a bit different. I looked around the yard and this one grouping caught my eye. A hickory leaf with 3 leaflets, all brown but loaded with character (IMO), I knew it would be all about the lighting and this has a main light to the left and above camera, additional fill to the right and a bit from the back-top for a hair light. The grouping measures about 5 in. tall X 4 in. wide X 2 in. deep. I was hoping for a B&W conversion but the brown color won out in the end.
Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro, 8 Image Focus Stack shot at f/11.
Una foglia di ninfea gigante galleggia nel giardino botanico di Pamplemousses, Isola di Mauritius.
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Male flowers from Caucasian wingnut
Pterocarya fraxinifolia – Caucasian wingnut.
The picture shows the characteristic long, hanging male flowers.
Pterocarya fraxinifolia is a deciduous tree in the walnut family (Juglandaceae), typically with long, hanging seed catkins (30–50 cm) that carry green, winged nuts – a clear recognition feature.
The tree has large, imparipinnate leaves up to about 60 cm long with 7–27 leaflets and decorative and broad-crowned growth form, often with multiple stems and a short, thick trunk.
The tree is native to the Caucasus region and northern Iran, but often planted in parks and large gardens across Europe because of its ornamental value and ability to thrive in damp areas.
Sct. Hans Garden 2024-08-25
Kamias (Averrhoa bilimbi) is a mall tree growing 5 to 12 meters high. Leaves are pinnate, 20-60 cm long, with hairy rachis and leaflets. Leaflets are opposite, 10 to 17 pairs, oblong, 5 to 10 cm in length. Flowers, about 1.5 cm long, and slightly fragrant. Fruit, green and edible, about 4 cm long, subcylindric with 5 obscure, broad, rounded, longitudinal lobes.
In Malaysia, it is called belimbing asam; in Indonesia, it is belimbing besu; in Thailand, it is taling pling, or kaling pring. To the French it is carambolier bilimbi, or cornichon des Indes. Filipinos generally call it kamias but there are about a dozen other native names.
Origin and Distribution – Perhaps a native of the Moluccas, the bilimbi is cultivated throughout Indonesia; is cultivated and semi-wild everywhere in the Philippines; is much grown in Ceylon and Burma. It is very common in Thailand, Malaya and Singapore; frequent in gardens across the plains of India, and has run wild in all the warmest areas of that country.
Varieties – Kamias are all much the same wherever they are grown, but P.J. Wester reported that a form with sweet fruits had been discovered in the Philippines.
Climate – Kamias is a tropical species, it needs protection from cold and wind. Ideally, rainfall should be rather evenly distributed throughout most of the year but there should be a 2- to 3-month dry season. The tree makes slow growth in shady or semi-shady situations. It should be in full sun.
Soil – While kamias does best in rich, moist, but well-drained soil, it grows and fruits quite well on sand or limestone.
Propagation – Most efforts at grafting and budding have not been rewarding, though Wester had success in shield-budding, utilizing non-petioled, ripe, brown budwood cut 1 1/2 to 2 in (3.8-5 cm) long. Air-layering has been practiced in Indonesia for many years. However, the tree is more widely grown from seed. Kamias trees are vigorous and receive no special horticultural attention. It has been suggested that they would respond well to whatever cultural treatment.
Harvesting and Keeping Quality – The fruits are picked by hand, singly or in clusters. They need gentle handling because of the thin skin. They cannot be kept on hand for more than a few days.
Parts utilized – Whole plant.
Properties – Considered antibacterial, astringent, antiscorbutic, febrifuge, antidiabetic, stomachic, refrigerant.
Season, Harvesting and Keeping Quality – The tree begins to flower about February and then blooms
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Candid street portrait taken in Glasgow, Scotland. Laughter is the best medicine or so the saying goes. Enjoy some candid eye contact and a mouthful of perfect teeth by pressing 'L' or clicking on the image. This girl was handing out leaflets to passers-by and I may have interrupted her briefly here, she was laughing along with someone else and I caught that instant her eyes met my lens.
One more of the series of shots from the Museum. This one was a bit tricky though. I had light coming directly on the leaf from the other end, as in direct sunlight. I had to move away to face the tree truck but then now i ended up with lesser light. Cheap Canon lenses are not all that sharp unless you go smaller than f/7.1.
Finally i switched to manual, went to F/11 and fired the flash from the Canon Speedlite 430EX to evenly light up these leaves. Interestingly i'm getting to see how light has DoF here. The background from the leaves seems to have been darkened out in the bokeh.
Looks good on large
Canon EOS 400D with the Canon EF 75-300MM F/4-5.6 USM III. Manual, F/11 at 1/200th of a Second. Flash fired with the Canon Speedlite 430EX on manual 1/1.
This Active Sindy is a prototype and the ones actually sold were slightly different, both doll and ballet outfit.
I came across this shrub on my walk today - was intrigued by the shape of these leaflets.
ODC - Beneficial moments
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A bit dog-eared now but a very rare leaflet and hard to find nowadays, sadly this system was not a successful product for Meccano.
6 July 2010
Phacelia - bee plant
This is an annual herb which grows erect to a maximum height near 100 centimeters. The wild form is glandular and coated in stiff hairs. The leaves are mostly divided into smaller leaflets deeply and intricately cut into toothed lobes, giving them a lacy appearance. The very hairy inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of bell-shaped flowers in shades of blue and lavender. Each flower is just under a centimeter long and has protruding whiskery stamens. The seeds are "negatively photoblastic", or photodormant, and will only germinate in darkness.