Lake Vyrnwy Spring Colours

The spring colours are at their best at the moment. Here a few images taken on the around Lake Vyrnwy and the walk up to the waterfall.

Pasque Flowers

 The recent cold, dry and windy weather has resulted in quite a lot of damage to the Pasque flowers this year but still a delight to see and photograph. This was our first RPS Nature Group outing since November so good to see Members can still get down to the task in hand. The weather was very cold and windy though the sun did come out later in the morning.Taken with 80mm Fuji Macro (first 6 images, the first three being focus stacks) and with Compact camera (last 4)

Spring Flowers Closeup - Sexuality in the Primrose

All the years I have been photographing flowers, I was under the impression that Primroses were examples of  "unisexual" monoecious flowers where either the stamens or the carpels are missing in all the flowers in a clump.  Researching how the primrose ensures an even distribution of 'male' (pin-eyed plants) and 'female' (thrum-eyed plants), I discovered they are in fact bisexual but have different arrangements of the male and female parts - see diagram.

 Most of these are taken with a Fuji compact X100 V fitted with a X4 plus a X2.5 diopter close up lens in combination giving very close focus.  

Nature Awakes on Dawn Walk

I managed to find a Small White roosting in the grass at the side of a field and a Green-veined White in Toft wood. I used a telephoto for the first of the g.v.whites and the X100V for the others using apertures of 4.5, 5.6 and 13 in the g.v.w. series. The Red Admiral and Long-tailed Tit were using the early sun to warm up while the winter wheat sparkled still with overnight dew.

  

Fowlmere Composites

A walk round Fowlmere RSPB reserve was pretty devoid of visible birds as usual so I had a play with multiple exposures and different blending modes. Here a few that I liked from the session (the first is a Photoshop composite (overlay mode) but didn't record ME mode!).