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It's 'Peony Watch' once again. A few days on and changes are afoot. Formicidae made a surprise appearance :)
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We all know this as the common Dandelion weed (Taraxacum Erythrospermum) that is seen almost everywhere. When you take a closer look, the detail and lightness is admirable.
Being self-pollinating plants, the composite flower often turns into the signature, fluffy white seed head within a few days. These seeds fly along with prevailing winds using their umbrella-like hairs.
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Seen at Oldmoor Wood. It's a woodland in Nottinghamshire, near the village of Strelley. It covers a total area of 15.11 hectares. It is owned and managed by The Woodland Trust.
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Chilean Lantern Tree (Crinodendron Hookerianum)
Have this tree growing in relative shade. Must be getting on for 10 years old or more. Once in a while it gets pruned to promote new growth. If left alone it would be quite tall and wide, I have it around 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide.
C. hookerianum is a dense, hardy medium-sized evergreen shrub to 6m, with rigid, narrow, dark green leaves and fleshy, lantern-shaped, crimson flowers 2.5cm in length from late spring to late summer.
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Conocí esté pequeño Membracido en el Jardín Botánico de Medellín. Media seis milímetros aproximadamente.
© Felipe Toro
I love taking photos of rain droplets on little moss plants, or other tiny plants. You never know what the camera will reflect and magnify, and I do enjoy opening the pictures in the computer to see what's there. Often the detail has been so tiny, I've been unable to see it with my eyes.
Recently visited Oldmoor Wood, Nottinghamshire. Oldmoor Wood is a woodland in Nottinghamshire, near the village of Strelley. It covers a total area of 15.11 hectares. It is owned and managed by The Woodland Trust.
I went primarily for the beautiful Bluebells. There is a mix of Native and Spanish Bluebells.
Native Bluebells are protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
How to tell the difference.
English Bluebells: Flowers on one side of the stem.
Spanish Bluebells: Flowers all around the stem.
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The unmistakable Araucaria araucana, commonly known as the Monkey puzzle tree. An evergreen ornamental and timber conifer. Seen this in the gardens of Hodsock Priory, North Nottinghamshire.
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With the blossom showing, daffodils out, Birds beginning to nest, Spring is certainly on the way!
First day of Spring is 20th March and ends 20th June.
Here's the latest update on my Chilean Lantern Tree. It looks to be one of the best shows it's had in many a year. (Tricuspidaria hookerianum). I have this tree growing in relative shade. Must be getting on for 10 years old or more. Once in a while it gets pruned to promote new growth. If left alone it would be quite tall and wide, I have it around 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide.
C. hookerianum is a dense, hardy medium-sized evergreen shrub to 6m, with rigid, narrow, dark green leaves and fleshy, lantern-shaped, crimson flowers 2.5cm in length from late spring to late summer.
My eyes are definitely bigger than yours...
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A macro capture of some lovely 'Honeysuckle' 'Lonicera' I took last week.. best on black.. just click on image
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Santa brought me a late Christmas present ... indirectly. My eldest daughter who also is into photography like me gave me a LED light ring for taking macro captures. She thought it would be cool to use. The issue was that I really did not have a macro lens, and also all my lenses have 77mm filter rings ... and the light kit only had adapters up to 67mm.
She was disappointed when I told her this, and was going to return it and see if she could get a LED light kit for larger lenses ... I told her NOT to, and that this was FINALLY my sign to go ahead and get the Macro lens. I had been toying with getting the 100mm 2.8 by Canon for well over a year now figuring it would be great for portraits and also taking true macros.
Mrs. Krach was fine with me taking the plunge with the new lens, and I ordered it Christmas night. Amazingly without even express shipping, the lens arrived today already (guess the delivery trucks are empty ;)
So yeah, after working all day at the office, quite the fun to come home and start testing it out.
This capture here was taken with the LED Ring Light attached to the end of the lens. Was also taking these captures with the lens connected to the 7D Mark II body. The one image was taken back a little to get the entire Hershey Kiss in the frame ... liked how the LED Ring light worked here, still creating shadows nicely giving the image some nice depth ... then the light came in real nice with the capture taken above very close in for the extreme magnification of the candy's paper wrap. Without the ring light, the candy would have been in complete shadow from the overhead kitchen light. Neither image is cropped, so when viewed large, the details in the paper wrap are quite amazing.
BTW ... by having the 100mm around for portraits, my daughter will be happy now as my 5 year old trusty Sigma 70/200 f2.8 that I was using as my portrait lens, she will be able to now 'borrow'. Hence I think this was her whole idea all along by getting me the LED filter ring light.
A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialised tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase.
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Blink and it was gone! Great while it lasted :)
Shot while at Sutton Scarsdale Hall (English Heritage), Derbyshire.
Seen her scurrying about in the hedgerows. Looking for food and or nesting materials.
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Canada Goose (Branta Canadensis).
Seen at Wollaton Hall, Gardens and Deer Park, Nottingham.
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Snowdrops
Meteorological spring: starts 01 March; ending on 31 May. To coincide with the Gregorian calendar.
Astronomical spring: starts 20 March; ending on 20 June.
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These Allium Siculums are beginning to unfurl in my garden. They need a thin garden cane to help support them at this stage.
Nectaroscordum (Allium).
Alliums are part of the onion family. They bloom with bell-shaped flowers offering reddish-purple markings as you can see. Known as the Honey Garlic, Sicilian Honey Lily, Sicilian Honey Garlic, or Mediterranean Bells, is a European and Turkish species of plants genus Allium. It is native to the regions around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and grown in other regions as an ornamental and as a culinary herb.
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