Thursday, 20 June 2013

Progression

The past week I have managed to take a huge amount of photos and haven't had the time to put any of them on here!

Something I have focused on with my photography recently is the development of different flowers in the garden and the insects which enjoy the flowers. My first example is the alliums, photos of which I included in my last post. It has been great to see the flower open up from the outside florets to the inside florets. The process could be described as a slow motion botanical Mexican wave! I think it would be fascinating to use time lapse photography to see this in action.

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6th June

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13th June
 

Another of the flowers in our garden came as a bit of a surprise. In the garden of the house I grew up in we had lots of red hot pokers. Mum apparently dug one up and brought it with us. Up until this year it had shown no signs of flowering. Cool plants that come in a variety of shades according to wiki! Their genus is actually Kniphofia and they were named after German physician and botanist Johann Hieronymus Kniphof. They also go by the names tritoma, torch lily, knofflers and poker plants.  

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19th June

Not only have these vibrant flowers been developing, but also the housemartin's nest. They only started building it about 3 weeks ago and already they have pretty much completed it! Tremendous birds!

Progress by 13th June
Alongside the flowers already mentioned, the foxgloves are bringing yet more colour to the garden and the honeysuckle ensures that every time I open the back door my nostrils are filled with their gloriously sweet scent.

13th June

14th June
I shall finally leave you with some evening light and sunset photos from last Thursday...







Amazing how quickly the colours strewn across the sky can change!

Anyway I shall leave it there and will hopefully get another post in with more of my backlog of photos before I head to Glastonbury next week!

Thanks for reading :)
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8 comments:

  1. Margaret Birding For Pleasure20 June 2013 at 13:56

    HI Lou Mary Well that is a great idea to take photos at different developing time of the flowers. Lovely to see that. The sky at sunset shots are fantastic. Margaret

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    1. Lou Mary21 June 2013 at 10:43

      Thank you Margaret, I thought it might be nice to have a bit of a themed post for once! :)

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  2. Em Parkinson20 June 2013 at 20:40

    Love your time lapse pictures and the colours in the skies are gorgeous. Our House Martins are real slackers and there's NO chance of them finishing in time. They spend a lot of time canoodling up there and rearranging tiny bits of mud, and not enough time grafting!

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    1. Lou Mary21 June 2013 at 10:44

      Thanks for your comment Em :) Ours are a bit behind this year too. I'm sure in previous years they would be on their second brood by now!

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  3. Anonymous21 June 2013 at 08:47

    Super set of photos. What a good idea to take a sequence over a period of days. :-)

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  4. Douglas Mcfarlane21 June 2013 at 12:34

    Love the Housemartins, it worries me slightly the lateness of the nest building though. Have fun at Glasto' are you taking some images from Glasto'?

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    1. Lou Mary24 June 2013 at 09:32

      Yeah hopefully they will fit another brood in, but it is worrying indeed. I will just take a compact camera and grab a few snaps. Might put them on here if they are suitable ha!

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