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LA: Leucojum vernum
EN: Spring Snowflake
DE: Frühlings-Knotenblume / Märzenbecher
HU: Tavaszi tőzike
The spring snowflakes are becoming rare in the wild in Germany and in many countries due to the fact that their preferred living place: wetlands, mires, swamps, floodplain forests are disappearing.
In Germany it is a strongly protected plant, already on the Red List of endangered plants.
Another factor that "helped" the plant to get onto the Red List is the collectors who had been digging them up for sale or for their own gardens.
Typical of the plant is that 1-2 flowers can be seen per stem and the white petals have an orange, yellow or green spot.
The entire plant is poisonous.
These plants I found in the Maisinger Gorge, near Starnberg. The area is protected, as a water protection area. That means that any activities that can pollute the groundwater are forbidden. The beautziful little city of Starnberg at the Starnberger Lake gains its drinking water from this area.
Maisinger Schlucht, near Starnberg, Germany
Helios 44M-7 test photo ( f/2.0 )
Zenit MC HELIOS-44M-7 58mm 1:2
Modified lens converted for Nikon FF.
A stretched spring on mountboard.
The image was taken outside on a sunny day in the UK, which helped to produce some deep shadows. I've boosted the contrast to give the photo an illustrative/abstract look.
For the 'Macro Mondays' - 'Hard Light' challenge, 18th February 2019.
And another three from the garden, which has endured yet another freezing gale in the last few days. This is a wild geranium - I've been encouraging blue ones for a long time, but the larger flowered pink ones are invading the whole garden - and before they come into flower, I can't tell whether I ought to pull them up or not...
Cream-spot ladybird, Calvia 14-guttata
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Spring Buds - Sony A7S II, Fotodiox C-mount to E-mount adapter, Wollensak Cine Velostigmat 25mm f/3.5 C-mount Lens.
Spring's Ambassador.
Shot with the Canon 5DSR and 85mm 1.2 lens. Edited with the new (unreleased) Beautiful World Soft Tones, 2022 Edition.
Another spring photo by the water on 9th May. Wonderful light and relaxing sounds filled this landscape: roar of a small rapids and a Bittern. Home!
I warned everyone, now here is a long series on the spring snowflakes.
Found them along the edges of the bog called Langer Filz, along the creek called Lindenbach. In the nature reserve, called Murnauer Moos, Bavaria, Germany.
LA: Leucojum vernum
EN: Spring Snowflake
DE: Frühlings-Knotenblume / Märzenbecher
HU: Tavaszi tőzike
The spring snowflakes are becoming rare in the wild in Germany and in many countries due to the fact that their preferred living place: wetlands, mires, swamps, floodplain forests are disappearing.
In Germany it is a strongly protected plant, already on the Red List of endangered plants.
Another factor that "helped" the plant to get onto the Red List is the collectors who had been digging them up for sale or for their own gardens.
Typical of the plant is that 1-2 flowers can be seen per stem and the white petals have an orange, yellow or green spot.
The entire plant is poisonous.
Spring is in there somewhere! Little by little the snow is continuing to melt. The Crocus in my back yard are doing their best to bloom through the snow.
Used Photoshop to apply highlights.