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For Looking close... on Friday#Mushrooms, Meadow mushroom (Agaricus campestris) edible mushroom growing in a meadow.

This is my glass dome filled with red and gold baubles and swathed with red shimmering organza. The dome was used in my photo a couple of days ago.

 

I popped the star drop in disc into Lensbaby double glass II added a couple of macro filters and deliberately blurred the image.

Lit from the other side

Image taken from a car bonnet after a storm.

One from the archives. A garden ornament at Felbrigg Hall National Trust.

 

Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Omni Filters

Apparently I did something right with this rose in my garden.

it is the second time it's blooming this year. although temperatures are already very fall-like.

Oxeye daisy, grass seeds and threads of angel hair (ponytail) grass.

 

Olympus EM1 + Pentacon 29mm M42 f2.8, wide open aperture.

Mushroom season is in full swing. This one I photographed on our hike around Bench Tor in Dartmoor National Park.

I often image filamentous parasitic fungi at work using electron microscopes so it is refreshing to photograph some other types of fungi on a larger scale (still macro though ;-) )

 

Fun mushroom facts:

 

- Over 80% of all terrestrial plant species have a symbiotic relationship with a fungal mycelium.

-Fungi are more closely related to humans than to plants

-In the Middle Ages people thought mushrooms grew at night on the soil where witches had had a sabbath.

Not a day for drying - while not quite officially winter it was just hours away from the first snow fall for the year.

It had already squeaked out a few tiny snow flakes, and I'd spent the afternoon excitedly bouncing around outside willing it to snow properly, and taking photos of everything. And freezing!

 

"Please hold" is for (1) the visually obvious - the pegs, and purpose of the clothes line, and (2) nature making me wait for the real snowfall ;-)

Tomonoura, Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan. November 26, 2015.

After almost a week of warm days, rains with petrichor scent, and waking blossoms, tonight the temperature is close to 0 °C and it is snowing again. And I am going through last year's pictures, eager for a new spring to photograph.

52 Frames Weekly Photo Challenge Assignment: Shallow Depth of Field

These fruit trees only bloom for a short period of time, so I'm out and about taking advantage of the photo opportunities.

The dark area on the right is the tree trunk of this old and a bit tired tree. In the summer I stop by and pick apricots of the branches that overhang the fence.

Two years ago to the day I was photographing these trees swarming with Painted Lady butterflies, today there wasn't a single pollinator in sight.

I hope there will be some insects while I'm not looking, otherwise it will be hard to pick fruit later in the year.

lens used - modified helios 44m 58mm

Ichnumonid/Ichneumon or Thread-waisted

One of my stepdaughter’s bridesmaids getting ready for her wedding back in 2015 … it took place in Nerja, Spain during August plus they were having a heatwave… over 40°c

Dedicated to my wife, with which i married since 16 years. Loving you Tina.

 

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

 

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

 

It's early in the morning

I'm laughing at the sun, mm

My mirror dissappoints me, yeah

Am I the only one?

 

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

Is you, smiling

At me, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

Is life, love, with you

 

I think I'm getting closer

But the scenery's the same, yeah

Am I a disappointment?

I'll blame it on the pain, it's

 

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

Is you, smiling

At me, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

Is life, love, with you

 

Oh, all I need is you is all I need if you can simply believe in me and we will be forever

Together

 

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

Is you, smiling

At me, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

Is you, smiling

At me, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

Is you, smiling

At me, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

All I need, all, all I need

Is life, love, with you

 

Lyrics by Awolnation

 

Used Tools:

Sony A7II

Sigma Art 24/1.4 DG HSM

Love

 

Thank you all for your kind comments & faves :) Thank you Flickr for the #1 Explore ^^

A Sony A7III photographed with a Sony A7III :) My wife loves her Christmas present. Hope everyone came well into the new year.

Beyond the chain links of the fence... snow covered trees and the faded view of Mallard Ducks

Happy Fence Friday

Hoary willowherb or smallflower hairy willowherb (Epilobium perviflorum).

 

Olympus EM1 + Meyer Optik Görlitz 50mm M42 f1.8, wide open aperture.

... some leaves just hang on giving us a small splash of colour in a white world

Smile on Saturday... BiColora

Happy Fence Friday... a profusion of berries clinging to this fence

Spending more time editing... and spending more time trying to convince myself that it's a positive thing!

 

This one's from the end of August... a rare appearance of "mini-me" on flickr... his sister normally hogs the spotlight :-)

 

Dontcha just love that Disney "Star Wars Weekend" t-shirt !

A little frosty macro work.

 

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October 2023: A month in 31 pictures

 

My friend popped over with Hugh, one of her dogs. I tried to get a quick shot of him, he was looking at his mum for treats though. The background isn't great and I tried to change it but it was my first attempt and it looked too artificial. This is all I got today and I haven't got the energy to start again.

I was lucky to spot this tiny caterpillar busy munching on grass seeds :)

 

Can anyone else see a man's face with a goatee...or is it just me?! 😂

...and late afternoon sunlight : )

A shot from a photo walk across my property. I was trying out my old Tamron SP 70-210 and I was amazed how sharp it is.

Tamron SP 70-210mm CF Macro f 1:3.5

A splash of colour to brighten up what may be a wet week ahead. :)

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