Nosebag time
A bee getting up close and personal with his lunch from a teuchrium flower.
Canon G3X ISO200 1/160 at f/8 Macro setting.
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Chinese lantern
This flower from one of many Chinese lantern plants (Physalis alkekengi) in our garden manage to survive the wet winter without disintegrating entirely, remaining quietly beautiful in its weathered state.
Canon G3X ISO200 1/125 at f/7.1
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Phlomis
Two phlomis flowers enjoying a joke.
Canon G3X ISO200 1/100 at f/8
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Olive-backed Sunbird
A chirpy and enthusiastic olive-backed sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis), a frequent visitor to our balcony over the last few days since the variegated shrub he’s sitting on started to flower.
Canon G3X ISO640 1/640 at f/5.6. Cropped in LR.
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Bumble Bee
Bumble bee on lavender filling her pollen baskets. Taken in garden at Gupole, Tuscany.
Canon 1DMkII with Canon EF 300mm 2.8 lens with Canon 25mm tube. ISO160 f8 at 1/800 Tweaked on LR
Adriatic Lizard Orchid
The Adriatic Lizard Orchid (Himantoglossum Adriaticum H. Baumann) is described as a perennial herb with an erect stem 30-80 cm high. It has 15-45 flowers per stem which are green white with reddish brown markings up to 5 cm long sepals and petals forming a hood. It occurs in countries around the Adriatic including northern Italy and including our garden where this year there are at least 25 plants growing among the grasses. It is protected in some countries and by CITES. It is found in calcareous ground up to 1600 metres.
Although described as ‘quite attractive’, when you get close to the flowers and examine their delicacy and structure, the beauty becomes apparent. If you peer into the hood, there appears to be a face peering back at you. (Check in the images in the Gallery)
Canon EOS 40D with Canon 28-70mm F2.8L lens at 70mm with Canon 25mm extension tube ISO400 1/250 at f10
Cropped a little in Lightroom
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Welcome to the revamped dgcPhoto site, complete with a new theme and a new look.
I’ve been rather busy with other things for a while, so I thought a makeover was more than overdue. I hope you like it.
In many ways, the site is the same as before except that with the new theme it’s easier to navigate and more efficient to load. And the layout is far cleaner.
I’m currently using two cameras: the truly excellent Canon 90D I bought several months ago that is streets ahead of any other camera I’ve owned over the years, and a Canon 100D that I’ve had for a couple of years — a really lightweight little workhorse. I am also using my iPhone SE far more than I expected. The latest OS makes it an incredibly versatile camera.
Keep checking out the galleries; the old ones have been reinstalled and new ones are being added.
What were the ‘other things’?
Check out ‘My Novels’ here or in the menu above where a couple of clicks will take you to the world of ClarkeFiction and details of my seven edge-of-the-seat thriller novels and my wife Gail’s wonderful fully illustrated children’s books.
