Showing posts with label Plants and Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plants and Flowers. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

More Macros!

Christus in the storm on the lake; Rembrandt (...Well, the weather is bloody awful, I am tired of this rain... I want to get outside and take some pics! I could use a plastic cover but with the sky being so cloudy and the extension tubes reducing the light even further, it is simply way too dark to get good shots. 

Why not use a tripod? Well let's put it this way, the bloody wind is blowing so epic motion blur...


However, I did manage to nip up the local woods with my BF and grab a couple of good shots before the light disappeared and the rain came tumbling down. Enjoy!



Rye Grass in Flower.

Lupin with water.
Wild Strawberry Blossom
The Unfurling of Wild Bracken
Flowering Gorse
If you would like to purhase any of these photographs as a print, please go to: http://ludlowphotographer.smugmug.com/Flowers/Macro-Flowers/

Thursday, 9 May 2013

Spring in Macro

My lovely and amazing boyfriend bought me a set of extension tubes for my Christmas/Birthday present and I went to town taking macro photographs of spring...

Please enjoy and if you would like to purchase a full size print of any of the images click here

Rhododendron Stamen and Sepals

Graphic drop

Reflections of Spring

Softly Softly

Dramatic Ash

Down the Rabbit Hole

Burst of Life

Monday, 8 April 2013

Californian Lilac


This little flower really shouldn't be there... I purchased this plant at Morrisons at a discount, it was pretty much half dead!

It's only a small flower and the reason it's flowering now is because I have it indoors for the moment.

I was going to put it outside into the cold-frame, but the day I thought about doing it, the weather decided to throw snow and ice everywhere and I was afraid that if I put anything out it would be frozen to death.

I am going to have to put it out soon, the windowsills are still jam packed and the poor tomatoes really need re-potting, but there isn't any room to put bigger pots. Oh dear god, why the hell did I decide to plant so much?

Once the weather is okay for everything to go outside  the house is going to look really, really bare but it's such a bloody mess at the moment.

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Over Wintered Snap Dragon

Well, for some reason, my Snap Dragon plants in the hanging basket have over wintered and are starting to flower?


This is what the flower looks like in summer...

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Antirrhinum aka Snap dragon from Lalbagh Garde...

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Monday, 18 February 2013

Newspaper Pots & Sunflower Seeds

Newspaper pots and Sunflower seedsI like plastic pots, they are cheap (free) and do what they're supposed to do for a really long time... however they do need you to remove the plants so you can plant them, this isn't desirable for a few plants and some plants, such as sweet peas do not like their roots disturbed.

You can go and buy expensive peat pots or you can make your own biodegradable pots out of newspaper.

Have a look here for the instructions, although you could probably figure it out from the pic above...

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