Raindrops on Flowers

Spent a short while in the garden yesterday photographing some of the flowers still in bloom and berries covered in droplets. I was using an old manual Olympus lens which gives very gentle backgrounds and seemed to suit the low light conditions. I need to be a bit more careful with my focusing however.

 

Launde Walled Garden

The walled garden at Launde is very extensive with several borders of perennials as well as the Vegetables and Fruit trees. I got immersed in photographing the flowers covered in dew with the misty backgrounds and almost missed breakfast on Saturday.  

Unusual Angles in Toft

Motivated by a Camera Club project, I took my Fuji X100V on a walk round Toft taking images from the ground, looking up, looking down etc. For close ups, I attached a 250X close-up filter. 

Paxton Flowers and the Dry Weather

This first image shows the Redlands area of Paxton Pits in 2024 - covered in Ragwort - to compare with this year's same view completely devoid of vegetation with the dry conditions. Tomorrow we have a wildflower walk in the morning and I feared that it would be without many subjects but a walk around yesterday morning produced 56 species so plenty to keep the group occupied.

Wild Flower Species in My Garden

It seemed a simple task on a free day to record what wild flowers are in bloom in my garden at the moment but I had underestimated how many species I would find and, even after over 60 years practising (yes it was a childhood obsession too), I still find getting attractive images of flowers in situ really difficult. Here are the species from my front garden which has herbaceous beds that are a mix of cultivated and wild species; I find these do really well together in maintaining a good ground cover and height  - essential in these dry conditions for invertebrate life.