Daily Theme- August 2023

[peterob]

I've been looking for this for ages.  I can't wait for auto-keyword suggestions to be added to Lightroom for existing photos.  

274A0270.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[peterob]

An old favourite - technically an arch even though a road goes over the top.  Couldn't find this either.

IMG_0002.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[kate]

Seed head

ap seedhead thistle by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

ap seeds poppy dark and dangerous by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[zx9]

Aug 23, 2023 18:31:42 GMT peterob said:

Lots of pillars and arches.   I  thought I'd work up this reject from 2014.  The plane of focus is too close but at this scale it isn't apparent.  The last version (on a similar but deeper focus shot) I really warmed up but this "probably" more accurate although 9 years is a bit long to remember!

IMG_0007.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

That reminds me, I have lots of Fountains Abby undercroft shots taken when I first got the EOS 5D which I could not get to work at the time but if edited with fifteen more years experience that I now have will hopefully not be in the rejects pile.

Another item in the get around to it list.

[zx9]

One of our cacti which has tiny little pink flowers and seed pods that you can not possibly ignore.

Cactus IMG_8015editSSC by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

[zx9]

In pre B word days I was in the habit of collecting seeds on my travels, this Euphorbia was the size of a tree littering the pavement with it's typical three lobed seed pods. I gathered some and brought them back to try growing them, after three or four years I threw out the pot of not germinated seeds and forgot about it.
This spring something appeared in the border outside the greenhouse and has grown to almost a metre in height, it is that Euphorbia I gathered in Lanzarote.

Euphorbia IMG_8006editSSC by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

As it is endemic to West Africa and the Canaries theoretically requiring a minimum temperature of 10 deg.C I am torn between trying to dig it out and potting it up to over winter in the green house or just letting it take it's chances under the hawthorn tree.

Edit: For scale the seed pods are about 20mm in size.

[zx9]

Three pond iris seed pods.

Autumn Iris. by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

Winter Iris by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

ex. Iris by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

Last one was shot with a 6x9 roll film holder on my Sinar more as an exercise in exposure factor calculation at almost 1:1 and the need to experiment.

[zx9]

Something a little more predictable.

Poppy IMG_0942editBW by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

[kate]

Calendula seed head.

ap seeds calendula in the making by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

Weeds and grasses. Oh, and red admiral.
ap seedhead and butterfly by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[zx9]

More from my garden.

IMG_8012edit20230824 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

A curious plant in our pond given to me by a cousin who is a commercial gardener. Notable in that it propagates by having stems bend over and root upside down, to the extent that to take cuttings you have to pot them up upside down or they will not take.

[petrochemist]

An obvious one (I've shot loads of these):
Thistle by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

and a slightly less obvious one:
sml P1290688 by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[El Sid]

Not exactly seeds but at least they do contain some...


Cones & Needles by Nigel Hayes, on Flickr

[peterob]

Seed combo - just now

BV9R4890.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[peterob]

Not terribly successful in review but I've taken my shoes off now and made a cup of tea. Might try again later if I can find it again.

Hawthorn

BV9R4875.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[peterob]

Seeds in there somewhere. Nigella.  

BV9R4883.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

BV9R4886.jpg by Pete, on Flickr