In Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Reflections of Early Childhood, William Wordswoth wrote: Though nothing can bring back the hour / Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower / We will grieve not, but rather find / Strength in what remains behind. I was reminded of those lines when I saw a single blade of grass that had gone to seed and was blooming deep in the woods. The tiny flowers were a sight to behold.
Black-chinned hummingbird nectar feeding. /
these small crocus are blooming right now in my yard, i shot this macro laying on ground to give an idea of just how tall they really are, im lucky enough to have four different colors growing in the same area :) / i shot this using a Nikon Diopter lens attached to a Canon 75-300mm lens
for some reason..this shot of the crocus that were growing in my yard last week, is one of my personal favs, something about it is so promising that this year we might just have a good spring / i shot this macro laying on ground (again) using a nikon diopter lens attached to a canon 75-300mm lens
Flowers from Protection
laying on the ground shooting macros again, this large-flowered white trillium and large flower bellwort were growing side by side, and nope, the shot isnt upside down, the bellwort grows that way :) / shot this macro using a nikon diopter lens attached to a canon 75-300mm lens / thanks to tom biggs, and his buddy harold ross jr, for turning me on to this new location to shoot. this was in the smoky mountains on the north carolina side This shot won the April Photo contest held by the Knoxville News Sentinal newspaper in Knoxville Tn / Contest titled….Spring Scene Photo Contest 2009 :)
Wild flowers are everywhere throughout the fields and on the roadsides in Turkey this May! As you can imagine I didn’t get far on my bike… / :) A first macro on a borrowed Nikon coolpix 4800 compact and the step up in quality from my usual Fuji Finepix A500 shows! (I was never able to give it back and came to an amicable arrangement…lol…) Taken on macro setting with selftimer and using a pocket sized 4” tripod.. Straight from the camera apart from slight cropping and a great reminder of the swathes of these beautiful flowers
My favorite wild flower / Canon 40d / 100mm macro /
“May your life be like a wildflower…growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” Native American proverb A nearby neighbor sowed his unused hay field with wildflowers this spring and now the whole village has acres of these glorious blossoms to walk through and enjoy. What a gift!
A tiny emerging grevillea seen next to a walking track at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains of Australia. This is the end section of a small flower. For the benefit of the macro groups this section of the flower is about 2.5 cm long. As mentioned in some of the comments below, I came across this flower because I followed the wrong track to the falls. Thank god for mistakes. Also, the flower looks different in it’s final stage as the pink stems shoot upwards. It was great timing to catch it at this stage. Thank you to the group organisers for featuring this in Flowers in Macro on October 18, 2008 & October 27, 2009, In The Pink on February 20, 2009, Grevilleas on June 12, 2009, Extreme Close-ups on Oct 24, 2009 & thank you to those in the Grevillea group who voted this image as the winner of the January 2009 Grevillea challenge. / Another win .. the Pretty in Pink challenge in the Australian Native Flower group in April 2009. This image is special to me because it was the first of my photos to sell privately. Eligible for the 500+ group with 1188 views as of December 16, 2009.
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California’s wildflower season was somewhat shortlived in 2008, but it was much better than in recent years. Bill and I drove about 3 hours from our home to Lake Elsinore to explore the hills there. That is where we found this incredible Wildflower Jackpot of California poppies, canterbury bells and many others! – March 2008 Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens / Featured Photo in California Sound on Oct. 12, 2008 / Featured Photo in Spring Blooms on Oct. 17, 2008 / Featured Photo in A Place to Call Home on Aug. 27, 2009 / Featured Photo in Rural Around the Globe on Aug. 28, 2009
This brilliant, delicate little wildflower, no bigger than an Aussie 50c piece is a very fine example of Thysanotus tuberosus (Common Fringe Lily). Found and photographed in gorgeous light in a tiny clearing beside a track at Diamond Head, part of Crowdy Bay National Park, Laurieton, south of Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia on a fine spring morning. In this area the flowers grow in thick native grasses and throwing out the background was very difficult. The only way I could do it was to fit the +10dioptre screw-on Macro Lens to the camera, set the camera to Super Macro Mode and get in as close as I physically and optically could using Manual Focus. I feel the sharp angles of the blurred blades of grass in the background support the hard angles of the thinner petals of the flower. Fuji S9600: RAW, f/3.4 @ 1/120sec, Tripod, Timer. / Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Aussie Wildflowers collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more luscious native Lily delights. UPDATE: / 27-10-08 / This fragile fringed floral delight has been featured in the Australian Native Plants Group . UPDATE: / 31-10-08 / Anthony Vella has choosen this lovely Lily as the Former DPF Members Group’s November 2008 Avatar. UPDATE: / 01-11-08 / The Hosts of the Australian Native Plants Group have choosen this lovely lily as the November 2008 Avatar. Enjoy! WILDFLOWERS: LILIES / (Click on the links!) Thysanotus tuberosus / Thysanotus tuberosus / Thysanotus tuberosus / Tricoryne elatior / Tricoryne elatior / Tricoryne elatior / Burchardia umbellata / Burchardia umbellata / Burchardia umbellata / Sowerbaea juncea / Sowerbaea juncea / Tripladenia cunninghamii / Dianella caerula / Dianella caerula / Dianella caerulea / Thelionema caespitosum / Thelionema caespitosum / Thelionema caespitosum / Thelionema caespitosum / Thelionema caespitosum / Caesia parviflora var minor / Nymphoides indica / Nymphaea violacea / Nymphaea violacea /
Nikon D60 very rainy day..
Child with crown smelling yellow wildflower. Photo based illustration.
Darth doing a little tending of his wildflowers.
In classic b&w keeping in tune with my retro flower power look & feel tonight…
Digital Painting This was created with my vision that it would be so fantastic to wake up each morning to this scene outside my window. So, come by my window….......and enjoy the view. Thank you for viewing my work. / / Featured in First Things Group
Wild yellow roses were first planted here in the yard of The Teacherage (teachers’ quarters) in Cherry Creek, Nevada. / Cherry Creek, Nevada / (2009.JUN.02) Placed Third on Fences Challenge on Mood And Ambience Featured in / Nature’s Reclamation / (2009.JUL.10) / Cottage Style / (2009.JUN.18) / Light In The Darkness / (2009.JUN.08) / Odd One Out / (2009.JUN.07) RedBubble Album: Botanical Wonders Of The Great Basin Canon 350D EOS / Tamron 55/200mm Corel PhotoImpact x3 Sales: 2+ Gallery Prints / Views: +198 (2009.NOV.30)
This is a composite created from several floral photos placed on a textured background which was also created from a floral photo. Edges of each floral photo were reduced in opacity and blended together. No other editing. Created in Microsoft Picture It software.
Rocky outcrop of the Sassolungo as seen from the Gardena Pass, Dolomites, Italy. Canon EOS 5D MkII with Canon EF 24-105mm L IS f/4
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9/11/09 ~ Featured in Wildflowers of North America ~ Thank you ♥ 8/12/09 ~ Featured in Shots in the Fog ~ Thank you!!! Pretty wildflowers (Loosestrife) taken 7/27/09 – on a misty morning along the banks of the St. Lawrence River near Clayton, New York. Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) – Purple loosestrife is a tall, multi-stemmed (30-50 per plant), perennial forb that can grow up to 10 ft. (3 m) in height. The opposite or whorled leaves are dark-green, lance-shaped, sessile, 1.5-4 in. (3.8-10.2 cm) long and round or heart-shaped at the base. Flowering occurs in July to October, when pink to purplish flowers develop in 4-16 in. (10.2-40.6 cm) long spikes at the tops of the stems. Flowers have 5-7 petals and twice as many stamens as petals. Purple loosestrife is a serious invader of many types of wetlands, including wet meadows, prairie potholes, river and stream banks, lake shores, tidal and non-tidal marshes, and ditches. One plant can produce as many as 2 million seeds per year. Purple loosestrife is native to Europe and Asia. It was first introduced into North America in the early 1800s for ornamental and medicinal purposes. It has also been used as a nectar plant for bee-keeping.
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