Florabunda Roses. Nikon D200. 17-55mm Nikkor f/2.8 at 45mm. ISO 800. 1/640 sec at f/11. Copyright Joanne Mason 2012.
I wish I’d noted the name of these spectacular multicolor roses. Any rose fans venture a guess? With thanks to Saffronrose, I think it’s a rose called “Oranges and Lemons.” See *.
Posted in Flowers, Nature, Photography
Tagged florabunda, florabunda roses, garden, multicolor roses, multicolored, nature, orange, Photography, red, roses
Summer is the season of the midnight sun in the far northern hemisphere. There is splendid landscape and time-lapse photography in this video of “Midnight Sun | Iceland” shot by Scientifantastic.
Best viewed fullscreen and in HD (the embedded video is HD), “Midnight Sun” was shot over a 17-day period in June 2011 by Scientifantastic. If you like mountains, sky, water, oceancoast, and spectacular scenery, you should love this video! Some of the mountainscapes almost look like abstract paintings.
Posted in Landscape, Nature, posted elsewhere, Reposted from Web, Video
Tagged Iceland, Landscape, midnight sun, nature, Scientifantastic, summer, time-lapse, video
Needles. Fuji X100. 23mm. ISO 800. 1/45 sec at f/5.6. Copyright Joanne Mason 2012.
I like the patterns created in this image of a mass of pine needles. It’s interesting that the needles, going every which way, exhibit a certain chaos and randomness, yet there is order to the whole.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Black and White Photography, nature, needles, Photography, pine needles
Photo by Timothy Allen. Click image for BBC Human Planet Audio Slideshow.
This is a marvellous audio slide show featuring the photography of Timothy Allen. Timothy Allen accompanied film crews shooting the BBC series Human Planet.
From the icy Arctic to Africa’s dense jungles – and the mountain tops of Mongolia to the deep waters of the Pacific – the BBC series Human Planet has explored mankind’s incredible relationship with nature. Accompanying the film crews was photographer Timothy Allen. His stunning still images captured unique glimpses of people living in the world’s most extreme environments. Take a look at some of them, and listen to him explain how he snapped the most arresting shots.(*)
Every time I go shooting in the gardens, I need to try (increasingly these days) to put a different spin on flower photographs. Or sometimes it’s a different approach in post, but it helps to have an interesting image to start with. It’s all too easy for flower pictures to start looking all the same. Here’s a helpful short article by Tiffany Mueller in LightStalking with Top Five Tips for Photographing Gardens and Flowers.
It’s not uncommon for nature and flower photographers to keep taking the same old picture of different plants and flowers. However, flexing your creative muscles and pulling yourself out of that rut isn’t all that difficult to do. Just remember, flower and garden photography is essentially another form of portraiture; most of the same lighting rules will apply.
The Top Five Tips…
