Actually, two Iris taken a few days apart and in different lighting.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: In Bloom prompt.
These Iris are growing in a ditch on one of my routes around the neighborhood. I don’t know if they’re garden escapes or if someone planted them there. Taken on walks when I was testing the TTArtisan 50mm f/1.2 portrait lens.
A brief look back at 40 years of flower photography for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers prompt.
A Coneflower photographed with a fast portrait lens last summer. I spent part of the Covid-19 lockdown photographing flowers and plants with a variety of unusual lenses.
Foxgloves photographed with a long telephoto lens to isolate them from the background. A technique that I used quite often in the 1990s.
Daffodils with intentional camera movement. I started experimenting with ICM again in the winter and have continued this spring.
Snowdrops. A photo in a series showing the growth of the flowers. Published in a school textbook in the late 1980s.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Getting to Know You prompt.
Having initially considered various locations and nature subjects I thought about some of the ICM shots I had taken over the weekend.
I spent part of last weekend experimenting with various types of intentional camera movement using various lenses from an ultra wide angle lens to a macro lens.
The post is also a continuation of a the Lens-Artists prompt You Pick It earlier in the month.
My Flora and Fauna Friday post this week is the Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) a bulbous perennial plant.
Found in Atlantic areas from north western Spain to the British Isles. The plant is associated with ancient woodland and is regarded as a sign of spring. This display of Bluebells was photographed on a woodland section of Bickerton Hill in southern Cheshire, England.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Orange prompt.
Reflection of the sunrise in the ripples.
Autumn leaves against interesting clouds.
A Pot Marigold after rain.
Chantry Island lighthouse at sunset.
This week Ann-Christine gives us the prompt Soft for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
My first thought was of some of the photos I had taken last year when I was experimenting with photographing flowers and plants with various unusual lenses. Mostly fast portrait lenses but also some CCTV lenses adapted to a mirrorless camera.
