A poppy head shot with the iphone hipstamatic
Peter Bargh
Sights & SoundsArchive for the ‘Photo 365’ Category
This is my small patch of poppies I’ve been photographing in the garden in previous blogs posts. They’re now all coming to flower. I photographed this lot this morning.
I’ve uploaded a shot to my ePHOTOzine gallery showing a low viewpoint of the front two – Summer
I cycled round Clumber Park this afternoon a 30km route, and on the way stopped off at one of my favourite woodland scenes to take this. The reel has been there for about five years and is starting to rot away nicely. It’s surrounded by silver birch and ferns so you can usually get a decent shot. This is with the K5 and 16-45mm hand held.
A reproduction divers helmet I’ve been meaning to photograph for ages. I placed the studio light inside and used the modelling light as illumination. Then I added a self portrait behind the glass in Photoshop
The photo is taken with a Pentax k5 and 16-45mm zoom
I’m making the most of the poppy explosion in the garden, and the rain with this shot.
A poppy petal fell off, so I placed it on the garden table and framed up tightly using the 100mm macro on a Pentax K5.
A close up abstract of a poppy petal…such large and delicate things – they don’t stand a chance in the wind and rain.
Plan A was to photograph tonight’s lunar eclipse, but with all the will in the world, and no access to the largest wind machine in the universe, the cloud isn’t going to shift. So there’s no moon and I need a plan b. Fortunately I took one photo this evening on my way back from the post office. A quick grab shot on the iphone will have to do today.
It’s of the canal that runs through Worksop and this is from the back end of the town centre. I like the fact it gives a feeling of the old town, quite industrious looking still.
Well actually having looked it up, it’s not really a caterpillar, it’s a larvae from the sawfly. I get these every year on my Solomon’s Seal plant that I photographed earlier in my photo365 series.
The species is known as the Solomon’s seal sawfly. I got up close using the Pentax K5 and 100mm macro lens.
I’ve shot vertically to show another part of the leaf that’s been eaten away.
These pests strip the plant after its flowered and create a skeleton structure.
“Never shoot into the sun” was something you were always told not to do. That was in the days of standard coated lenses with minimal exposure control. The modern cameras are pretty good at coping, as can be seen here with the Olympus EP2 and its 17mm f/2.8 lens. I took this tonight when I decided to break routine and go for a cycle along Worksop canal. This is around lock 23. It has a pocket of warm light on a clear evening and the light is golden. After walking or cycling on a path that’s relatively dark and sheltered from sun, reaching this bit is quite magical.
We had a pond. At one end was a water feature on an incline with a few pond type flowers around the cascade and a stray poppy.
The filter pump went so we decided to fill it in. Bricks from the incline wall were used to fill the main part of the pond and the soil was transferred to cover the brick, ready to pave over with a patio. I’ve not got round to paving so we have a pond shaped patch of soil and on that patch have sprung poppies.
So from that one stray poppy on the small bank of the incline the whole bed has been covered …and this was the site this morning – the first of the flowers to appear.
There are going to be hundreds on this colourful but messy looking area. I’m going to be taking a lot of abstract photos in the coming days.