The Fly and the Flower
Posts from the ‘flowers’ category
The Little Yellow Flowers
The Stamens (AKA (plural?) Stamina)
My Latin is non-existent!
The Slippery Slope
The Flower
The Ski Jumper
The Forest Fungi
The Flower
The Flower
The Namesake
The Penis Plant
Well, you do have to admit….
The Bluebells
It must be Spring in the UK..
The Exploding Flower and the Bug…
Can you spot the bug?
The Town
Grantown-on-Spey in the Cairngorms.
The Orgy
The Day Of The Triffids!
They are here to get you! Be afraid!
The Rose
The Lady With Flowers
The new Adobe Camera RAW Texture Slider – The flower
Still having fun with the new Texture Slider in Adobe Camera RAW. It’s a fun tool and it worked well on the flower below. I love taking photographs of flowers with a very narrow depth of field – it makes the flower pop out of the background. The new texture slider gives the image a bit of extra pop!
The Purple Jobs…
The Leaf Map
The veins (?) in the leaf look like a city roadmap.
The Dog Walker
The Not Stinging Nettle
Sue tells me that, whilst the plant/weed shown in the first image below looks like a stinging nettle, it isn’t and you would not be stung if you touched it. I will not be testing this hypothesis. If it looks like a stinging nettle, then it will sting you. I apply the same logic to snakes. If it is a snake, it is poisonous!
For comparison purposes, the image at the bottom of this post is a stinging nettle.
The Strange Growth
I am sure somebody will know what kind of plant (weed?) this is. Spotted near Monnickendam (Netherlands) today. Almost like some kind of alien creature!
The Walk in the Park…
The Bud
The Leaf
A slightly more fragrant post than the last one!
The Ball Chucker
The Ball Chucker
The Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam
Please click HERE to visit my Adobe Spark page for the Hortus Botanicus (botanical gardens in Amsterdam). When you get to the page, please just keep scrolling down…
The Hortus Botanicus is one of the most peaceful places in the bustling and vibrant city of Amsterdam.
The Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam
The Butterfly
The Butterfly
The Buds
The Buds
The Bug
The Bug
The Stump
The Stump
The Hint of Spring
The Hint of Spring
The Leaf
The Leaf
The Leaves Of Many Colours
Even more fooling around with Reflector. Â I should really be doing something more useful!
The Leaves Of Many Colours
The Blue Flower
I don’t know the name of this one either. Â Many things but not a botanist!
The Blue Flower
The Pink Job
Another flower I don’t know the name of:
The Pink Job
The Marching Ants
I didn’t notice the ants when taking the photography. Not sure what they’re doing!
The Marching Ants
The Taste of Things to Come..
Some images from the forest coming up shortly:
Nuts, Berries and Leaves from Richard Broom on Vimeo.
The Blue Flower
The Blue Flower
The White Flower
The White Flower
The Sex Fest on a Thistle
More insect pornography!
The Sex Fest on a Thistle
The Sex Orgy
Promiscuous beetles seen today having open air sex. Â Even threesome sex! Â What little tinkers they are!
The Orgy
The New Flower
One I haven’t seen before:
The New Flower
The Flowers
The Flowers
The Banana Pods
They are not bananas but look a bit like them…
The Banana Pods
The Meeting
The Meeting
The Butterfly
I could be wrong but I think this is a Red Admiral…
The Butterfly
The Not Bee!
Tom very kindly corrected me. This is not a bee, it’s a hover fly!
The Not Bee!
The Early Hazelnut
The Early Hazelnut
The Ridley Scott Plant
Now surely this must have come straight out of the the film Alien by Ridley Scott
The Ridley Scott Plant
The Light Bulb Plant
I apologise deeply for sweeping away centuries of botanic and taxonomic research when I rename these flowers with my own (silly) name. Â But you do have to admit, they look a little bit like lightbulbs!
The Light Bulb Flower
The Blackberries Are Coming!
The Blackberries Are Coming!
The Prickly Jobs
The Prickly Jobs
The Peculiar Flower
No other way to describe it!
The Complicated Flower
The Spiky Pods
The Spiky Pods
The Splash of Red
The Splash of Red
The Bee and the Thistle
The Bee and the Thistle
The Spiky Mix
A mixture of soft and delicate flowers and fearsome spikes! Armoured flowers!
The Spiky Mix
The Leaves
The Leaves
The Witches Fingers
I have no idea what these flowers (plants?) are called but I call them Witches Fingers
The Witches Fingers
The Fluffy Leaves
Not sure what makes them fluffy…
The Fluffy Leaves
The Deathtrap
Insects beware!
The Deathtrap
The Leaves with Hooks…
Not sure if they’re leaves at all – but, close enough for Government work!
The leaves with hooks…
The Green Stuff
The Green Stuff
The Peculiar Pods
The Peculiar Pods
The Gardener
The Gardener
The Bee
The Bee
The Quiet Moment
The Quiet Moment
The Big Leaves
The Big Leaves
The Spiky Yellow Little Number
The Spiky Yellow Little Number
The Rule Breaker
I know, the flower petals should really be in focus but I like the way that (by accident) the little antenna things in the middle of the flower break through and are in focus whilst the petals aren’t. Â The best kinds of rules are no rules!
The Rule Breaker
The Bell
The Bell
The Spikes
The Spikes
The Pods
The Pods
The Flower Coming At You!
The Flower Coming At You
On a warm summer’s day, the Hortus Botanicus (Botanical Gardens) Amsterdam is such an oasis of peace and tranquility. Somewhere to catch your breath…
The Botanical Gardens Amsterdam
The Strange Pod
The Strange Pod
The Explorer
The Explorer
The Little Red Number
No idea what it is, but nice.
The Little Red Number
The Dragonfly
The Dragonfly
The Yellow Flower
As usual, no idea what it is but a nice flower
The Yellow Flower
The Dead Head
Theresa May might feel like this today…flattened!!!
The Dead Head
The Start of Life
Probably one of the best ways to spend an afternoon in the woods…
The Start of Life
The Spiky Chap…
The Spiky Number
The Yellow Explosion (2)
The Yellow Explosion
The Yellow Explosion (1)
The Yellow Explosion
The Bee’s Bottom
The Bee’s Bottom
The Visiting Bee
The Visiting Bee
The Buttercup
The Buttercup
The White Bells
The White Bells
The Purple Bells
The Purple Bells
The Fern Vortex
The Fern Vortex
The Blue Trumpets
The Blue Trumpets
The Purple Explosion
The Purple Explosion
The Yellow Explosion
Just a humble dandelion..
The Yellow Explosion
The Pink Explosion
The Pink Explosion
The About To Bloom Daisy
The About To Bloom Daisy
The Red Flowers (Almost)
The Red Flowers (Almost)
