Macro photography

Flowers, plants, insects taken with a dedicated Macro lens

Macro Monday #100

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This exotic looking Canna lily screams for attention with its rumpled vivid yellow and orange flowers amongst the spectacular green foliage with yellow-striped veins. A late summer / autumn flowering plant the Canna lily is a tender perennial which won’t survive the frosts, so dig up the bulb and store over winter for replanting next year.

This is my final Macro Monday photo. I am taking a rest from this flower blog until next year when I shall be back with a flower of the month along with gardens that I visit outside of Cornwall. My first Macro Monday was posted on 25 August 2015 when I got my new Macro 60mm lens for my Olympus E10 camera. They haven’t all been ‘true‘ macro photos, but the ones that are have shown minute details of both flowers and insects, something that you don’t naturally see with the naked eye. This lens has brought me a lot of pleasure, but for now I need to concentrate on some different photography during the coming winter months when flowers are scarce and winds are fast and furious. 

I will still be posting on my Cornwall in Colours blog and also Travel Words if you want to follow me there.

Macro Monday #99

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Clerodendrum splendens (glory tree, flaming glorybower) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Clerodendrum of the family Lamiaceae, native to tropical Western Africa. It is a twining evergreen climber, growing to 3 metres (9.8 ft) or more, with panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers in summer. With a minimum temperature of 10 °C (50 °F), it requires the protection of glass during the winter months in most temperate regions.
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Macro Monday #98

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Hemerocallis (daylilies) produce elegant, usually trumpet-like blooms in summer. They are rugged, adaptable, vigorous perennials that endure in a garden for many years with little or no care and come in all sorts of lovely colours.

Macro Monday #96

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Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis) is a wonderful flower for the late summer and will grow in sun or shade so a good addition to the woodland border. The leaves are semi-evergreen and deeply cut and bring interesting texture to a herbaceous border. I just love the contrasting coronet of intense yellow stamens against the deep mauve-pink petals.

Small is Beautiful…

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The spider species Araneus diadematus is commonly called the European garden spider, diadem spider, cross spider, or crowned orb weaver.

It is a dangerous time in the garden, whilst cutting down or pulling out dead and finished flowers you run the gauntlet of coming face-to-face with one of these. The thought of one of them getting into my hair gives me the heebie-jeebies. But needs must and all that. Perhaps I need to wear a hat.

Lens Artists Photo Challenge #11 | Small is Beautiful or maybe not…

Macro Monday #95

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Rosa x oderata Mutabilis is an old tea rose with a light fragrance. She is repeat flowering and ideal for hedging and loved by bees. The pointed flame-coloured buds, open to butterfly-like, coppery-yellow, single flowers on airy growth; changing to pink and finally coppery-crimson. Requires a warm, protected position.

Macro Monday #93

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a bee with attitude

With three yellow stripes and very hairy legs and face, I suspect this is a male bee. A very large one I can add, which landed slap in front of me as I was perusing the plants in the plant section at Trelissick Garden.  He neglected to tell me his name. But just look at those claws!