This week’s Flora and Fauna Friday is a Corncockle (Agrostemma githago) flower photographed in a garden in Cheshire, England.
Once a common weed in wheat fields it is now uncommon due to modern farming practices. However, nowadays it is being grown in cottage gardens. All parts of the plant are poisonous.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: One Single Flower.
Two photos from last summer when I was experimenting with various lenses adapted to a small mirrorless camera.
An Orange Daylily photographed with a 25mm CCTV lens adapted to a small mirrorless camera.
A Periwinkle flower photographed with a 35mm CCTV lens adapted to a small mirrorless camera.
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: What is it? #4.
I had an idea for this challenge when putting together a post for a different photo challenge. However, I couldn’t find the photo I wanted to use. I knew I had it as a colour slide and that I had made a digital copy previously although a cropped, low resolution version.
So can anyone identify these?
The reason I couldn’t find the good digital copy was because I had added the keywords as I uploaded them from memory without checking the caption on the slide mount.
As a result they were misidentified!
They are seeds of the Corncockle. Once a common weed in wheat fields it is now uncommon due to modern farming practices. All parts of the plant are poisonous so it’s lucky my misidentification was limited to my photo library.
I had identified them as Oriental Poppy seeds which are a similar shape but have rows of dimples on them rather than the rows of raised spots on these seeds.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge which this week has Cee Neuner as a guest host. Cee has given us the prompt One Single Flower.
I quickly decided to keep things simple and go with a small selection of favourite flowers and photos.
This is a Corncockle flower. Once a common weed in wheat fields it is now uncommon through modern farming practices. It is grown in some cottage gardens. All parts of the plant are poisonous.
This is a Prairie Lily, the provincial flower of Saskatchewan. This specimen was photographed near Punnichy, Saskatchewan. No longer as common on the prairies as it once was.
A Coneflower photographed a few years ago using my Vivitar 35mm lens from the 1970s on a modern digital camera. The interesting background is probably what started me experimenting with various lenses adapted to mirrorless cameras.
Throwback Thursday travels back to Cheshire in the late 1980s and some Thyme growing at the edge of a garden pond in Hatherton near Nantwich.
It was a popular spot for some of the resident Common Frogs to sit, waiting for insects to visit the Thyme flowers.
This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: The Colour Pink.
When I read the prompt some of my photos from mid 1980s came to mind. Taken on high speed film for the film grain and using soft focus filters I was trying to get a greeting card publisher interested in the photos.
A Fuchsia flower.
A Rose.
