Crocosmia

This is crocosmia 'Lucifer' - I think it's called that because the pain of trying to bring a photo of it within a usable dynamic range feels like being stabbed in the eye with a pitchfork.

Reasons to be cheerful though - when I photographed this plant last year I uploaded the photos, took one look at them and threw an absolute conniption fit, thinking that something awful had happened to my camera. I probably shouldn't even confess this, but in a flat panic I put it back to its factory settings - only to feel perhaps slightly  silly when I later realised that the issue was with the light bouncing off the crocosmia, rather than with the device trying to capture that light. Duh. Today I spent about ten minutes taking a set of photos, and then a mere couple of hours tweaking and twitching in Lightroom before reaching the "that'll do" stage - so I have learned something in the last twelve months!

As ever, many thanks to BikerBear for Flower Friday, which I always find to be a lovely way to start the weekend. Speaking of which - I hope you all have a good one. I am, as per, way behind on journals, so please accept my apologies - I'll be trying to do some catching up over the next couple of days.