White Meadowsweet
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 117.3mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/500s
Plant Portrait – Rosa glauca
Rosa glauca
Once known as Rosa rubrifolia … the flowers only appear for about a week but the hips at the end of the year are enormous.
R. glauca is a species rose, which is to say that the variety is unchanged from its original form in the wild. It is native to Europe and thrives in mountainous regions and in climates as frigid as Zone 2
- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: DSC-RX100
- Focal length: 10.4mm
- ISO: 125
- Shutter speed: 1/160s
Plant Portrait – Meadow Buttercup
Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)
- Aperture: ƒ/8
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Exposure bias: -7/10EV
- Focal length: 105mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/200s
It rained today …
- Aperture: ƒ/4.5
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 100mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/125s
First Cherry Blossom of the Year
Sour Cherry
The very first flower on the tree … I will be glorious by mid-week.
- Aperture: ƒ/18
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Exposure bias: -7/10EV
- Focal length: 100mm
- ISO: 320
- Shutter speed: 1/100s
Surviving the Frost
Magnolia stellata
We had a couple of lat April cold nights with snow this spring just as the Magnolias were flowering and expected the worst. But surprisingly our trees at least came through … last year we had no flowers on this tree as the squirrels ate all the buds so having flowers in 2021 was important.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: -3/10EV
- Focal length: 220mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/500s
Sanguinaria
Bloodroot
Yesterday there were the very first signs of Sanguinaria shoots pushing up through the cold earth. Today there are extensive clumps of green “fingers” and the first evidence of folded flowers. Almost there.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: +3/10EV
- Focal length: 205.60000610352mm
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter speed: 1/160s
Sentinel Snowdrop
Standing forth …
- Aperture: ƒ/2.8
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 100mm
- ISO: 125
- Shutter speed: 1/100s
Seedheads – 2
Wild Aster
Not certain of the particular Aster species but it’s one of the small wild ones. These seed heads are a fraction of the size of the Ligularia illustrated here yesterday.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 100mm
- ISO: 250
- Shutter speed: 1/100s