nature

As I get older, I appreciate the natural world more and more and this is reflected in my photography and writing.

Regular Random: five minutes with a rhododendron

/ Su Leslie / 14 Comments
img_5681

Image: Su Leslie 2019

It hasn’t been much of a week for walking, so I was extra-grateful for the absence of rain yesterday morning. Not a long walk, but enough to see what is happening in the “street-of-beautifully-kept-gardens.”

Lots of the camellia flowers are gone — lost to the wind and rain. But the single rhododendron that I can photograph without actually trespassing is looking really good.

Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019
Image: Su Leslie 2019

Regular Random is a photography project hosted by Desley at desleyjane pictures. There are two versions:

Version 1:

  • choose a subject or a scene
  • spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
  • try to not interfere with the subject, instead see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it
  • have fun!
  • tag your post #regularrandom and
  • ping back to Desley’s latest post

Version 2:

  • choose an object
  • spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
  • put the object in different locations to see how the background or surroundings can change the way the object looks
  • have fun!
  • tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to Desley’s latest post

And since it’s Friday … #fridayflowers

Advertisements

Friday flowers

/ Su Leslie / 31 Comments

Yuzu blossom and fruit bud. Image: Su Leslie 1019

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. — Michael Pollan

Elusive

/ Su Leslie / 22 Comments

Tui feeding in kowhai tree. Image: Su Leslie 2019

Maybe I’m stretching the definition of elusive a bit here. Tui are abundant in our garden at the moment, with record numbers feeding on the kowhai, flax and fuchsia in the neighbourhood.

Photographing them is a different matter. Today is the first time I’ve managed to get close enough to focus my lens on the birds and not just the foliage.

Images: Su Leslie 2019

Ragtag Daily Prompt | elusive