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Getting down to ground level. Back in the days before smartphones, these shots would have been difficult to take, but now it’s easy peasy./p>

Taken on an iPhone SE.

Funghi

It’s the funghi season and these beauties are popping up everywhere.

Canon 90D with Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary lens at 211mm ISO800 1/125 at f8.

Hypericum flower

Flower of one of the many species of hypericum — St. John’s wort

Canon 90D with Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary lens at 600mm ISO2500 1/2000 at f8.

Chinese Lantern Plant

Chinese lantern plant )Physalis alkekengi), a distant relative of the Cape gooseberry with a fruit that’s just as tasty. There’s an expanding colony in our garden under a contorted willow tree.

Canon 90D with Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary lens at 600mm ISO400 1/400 at f8.