Rainwater

Photograph Details: Nikon D7000 Focal length 55mm ISO-200 exp: 1/30 f11

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Uncle Fungus? Northward Hill RSPB

Photograph Details: Nikon D7000 Focal length 300mm ISO-800 exp: 1/60 f14

Here is a shot I got whilst trudging round Northward Hill RSPB reserve on the 8th May. It was a cold, wet, miserable day really, I got rather squelchy feet and got rained on a bit. The rain wasn't driving down though (always nice). As I was ambling along at my usual pace I came across this fungus. If anyone can tell me what sort of fungus/mushroom (are they the same anyway?) I'd be much obliged

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Bluebells at Sissinghurst Gardens

Photograph Details: Nikon DD7000 Focal length 38mm ISO-200 exp: 1/50 f7.1

It's that time of year when bluebells are everywhere - which is no bad thing! This is a shot I got at Sissinghurst Castle Gardens. The photo is only cropped and watermarked.

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Red Berries

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 300mm ISO-200 exp: 1/125 f5.6

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Pansy

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 300mm ISO-200 exp: 1/1600 f8

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Morning Dew

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 300mm ISO-200 exp: 1/1600 f8

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Lupin

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 300mm ISO-200 exp: 1/1600 f8

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Lily Sap

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 180mm ISO-400 exp: 1/60 f4.8

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Frost Macro

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 180mm ISO-800 exp: 1/400 f4.8

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Frosty The Snowplant

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 300mm ISO-800 exp: 1/320 f5.6

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Foxglove

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 300mm ISO-200 exp: 1/250 f8

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Bleeding Hearts - Red Dicentra

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 300mm ISO-280 exp: 1/125 f8

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Tulip

Photograph Details: Nikon D40 Focal length 300mm ISO-800 exp: 1/500 f5.6

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Photograph Details: Nikon D7000 Focal length 55mm ISO-320 exp: 1/25000 f5.6

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils" or "The Daffodils") is a poem by William Wordsworth.

It was inspired by an event on April 15, 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a "long belt" ofdaffodils. Written in 1804, it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes, and a revised version, the more commonly known, was released in 1815. It consists of four six-line stanzas, in iambic tetrameter and an ABABCC rhyme scheme.

It is usually considered Wordsworth's most famous work. In the "Nation's Favourite Poems", a poll carried out by the BBC's Bookworm, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" came fifth. Well known, and often anthologised, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is commonly seen as a classic of English romanticism within poetry, although the original version was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries.

Pansy

The Pansy is a large group of hybrid plants cultivated as garden flowers. Pansies are derived from Viola species Viola tricolor hybridized with other viola species, these hybrids are referred to as Viola × wittrockiana or less commonly Viola tricolor hortensis. The name "pansy" also appears as part of the common name for other Viola species that are wildflowers in Europe. Some unrelated species, such as the Pansy Monkeyflower, also have "pansy" in their name.

Lupins

Bluebonnet lupins, notably the Texas Bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis) are the state flower ofTexas, USA. The species are mostly herbaceous perennial plants 0.3–1.5 m (0.98–4.9 ft) tall, but some are annual plants and a few are shrubs up to 3 m (10 ft) tall—see also bush lupin—with one species (Lupinus jaimehintoniana from the Mexican state of Oaxaca) a tree up to 8 m (26 ft) high with a trunk 20 cm (7.9 in) in diameter. They have a characteristic and easily recognised leaf shape, with soft green to grey-green leaves which in many species bear silvery hairs, often densely so. The leaf blades are usually palmately divided into 5–28 leaflets or reduced to a single leaflet in a few species of the southeastern United States. The flowers are produced in dense or open whorls on an erect spike, each flower 1–2 cm long, with a typical peaflower shape with an upper 'standard' or 'banner', two lateral 'wings' and two lower petalsfused as a 'keel'. Due to the flower shape, several species are known as bluebonnetsor quaker bonnets. The fruit is a pod containing several seeds.


Why not get some for your own garden today!

Photograph Details: Nikon D40, focal length 185mm, ISO-200, exp: 1/200, f4.8

Flower

Photograph Details: Nikon D40, focal length 18mm, ISO-200, exp: 30 sec, f3.5

New Forest Panorama

Photograph Details: Nikon D40, focal length 27mm, exp: 1/125-1/200, ISO-200, f/5.6-7.1

I took this picture a few weeks back in the New Forest. It is composed of 8 photographs taken just by moving the camera to the right each time, without a tripod (you can tell!) It was stitched together using autostitch and cropped in Photoshop Elements.

Lupin

Lupins or lupines (North America) are the members of the genus Lupinus in the legume family (Fabaceae). The genus comprises between 200 and 600 species, with major centers of diversity in South America and western North America, in the Mediterranean region and Africa.

White Dicentra

Those of you who know me will be aware that dicentra are one of my favourite plants.

Flowers have two tiny sepals and four petals. They are bisymmetric: the two outer petals are spurred or pouched at the base and curved at the tip, and the two inner petals are straight and connected at the tip.