One from dawn today (and for any botanical connoisseurs out there ), dawn light, Olympus E-1, Olympus 150mm F2, iso 100, 1/1600s at F2, tripod, plastic bin liner (for knees) and natural dew.
I was shown this site about 20 years ago and go back infrequently, I'm not sure if it is a truly wild Fritillary meadow or not but it is a damp un-improved meadow site bordering a stream so teh location is good for native blooms. However it makes the more well known Iffley Meadows site (for the South East botonists) pale into insignificance for the sheer number of blooms, - I will post a general view of the meadow in next few days. The problem here is not finding flowers, but finding enough room to photograph them without crushing the heads underfoot......
There's no mistaking that lovely early morning look,thanks to the warm light and coating of dew.A most attractive shot.
One suggestion which isn't really a critism with the image but more a personal preference is,it would be nice to see the bottom of the plants stem if possible,although I can appreciate that if the stem is particularly long then including it can often render the important flowerhead a little bit smaller,and less significant in the frame,which isn't always ideal.
Still very nice as it is.
Unfortunately these double flowers were considerably taller than the standard single bells, fitting the whole plant in resulted in a loss of impact of the flower heads
Posted by Adrian North on April 27, 2007 at 4:32 AM
Mike,
Nice image. As has been said showing the bottom of the flower would have been nice but I think I would also take impact over that. As for the meadow shot I have never seen so many of these flowers in one place before
Thanks for sharing
Adrian
Posted by David Kjaer on April 27, 2007 at 5:46 AM
Hi Mike
Very nice especially the light, agree re the bottom of the flower - I think it would have worked better in this case if you had gone in even closer and concentrated on the flower head!
David
Posted by David Taylor on April 27, 2007 at 6:31 AM
I agree with David, though a very nice image nonetheless.
Discussion
8 repliesI was shown this site about 20 years ago and go back infrequently, I'm not sure if it is a truly wild Fritillary meadow or not but it is a damp un-improved meadow site bordering a stream so teh location is good for native blooms. However it makes the more well known Iffley Meadows site (for the South East botonists) pale into insignificance for the sheer number of blooms, - I will post a general view of the meadow in next few days. The problem here is not finding flowers, but finding enough room to photograph them without crushing the heads underfoot......
One suggestion which isn't really a critism with the image but more a personal preference is,it would be nice to see the bottom of the plants stem if possible,although I can appreciate that if the stem is particularly long then including it can often render the important flowerhead a little bit smaller,and less significant in the frame,which isn't always ideal.
Still very nice as it is.
Nice image. As has been said showing the bottom of the flower would have been nice but I think I would also take impact over that. As for the meadow shot I have never seen so many of these flowers in one place before
Thanks for sharing
Adrian
Very nice especially the light, agree re the bottom of the flower - I think it would have worked better in this case if you had gone in even closer and concentrated on the flower head!
David