The Old Forge (Sunday 7th June 2020)

There are all kinds of wildflowers that are rampant in the Woodland Garden and the driveway verges - dandelions, hawkweed, borage, love-in-a-mist, St John's wort, lords and ladies, fox and cubs, aquilegia, dead nettle, red valerian, speedwell and alkanet to name a few - but perhaps the commonest are herb-robert geraniums and herb bennet.

I've been meaning to photograph the herb-robert for some time and have pulled some of it up, but I think I may have missed the precise moment when the most flowers were fully open at the same time, despite a few attempts. I couldn't get the composition I wanted, of a few flowers growing against a spare roof tile in the front yard, so instead I used a macro setting on a telephoto lens to hone in on one flower.

The colour rendition of the flower isn't especially accurate although I have made partial correction in post treatment.

With thanks to Miranda1008 for hosting Wild Flower Week.

So much better resolution in Large (Gallery) view

L.
8.6.2020 (1745 hr)

Blip #3241 (#2991 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #036
Blips/Extras In 2020 #92/266 + #047/100 Extras
Day #3727 (840 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2370 (#2211 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Front Yard series
Wildflowers series
Macro series

Taken with Pentax K-5 and Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro lens

Woodland Garden (June 2020) (Flickr album)(Work in progress)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Lisa Knapp - Till April is dead (2017)
Intrigued by this piece when it came on the radio in the small hours. It is the title track of the album.

One year ago:
The Old Forge (Iris)