Tulips

 Sue and I popped to Audley End last summer  to visit the BBC Gardeners World Show. We had a great day. We were both taken with some fancy tulips. Always a favourite of mine.

We potted them up and they started showing themselves a few days ago. 

A 'good bye' - Definitely makes me smile when I see them.

These photos were taken on the Canon EOS R6 mark 1 with the 100mm Canon RF100 f/2.8 Macro Lens using in camera Focus Bracketing. I shot 30 images for each and then Focused Stacked them in Helicon Focus. Process mainly in Lightroom. One or two had some wind movement that I corrected in Photoshop.

FlowerPower (01)

 FlowerPower Project

Amaryllis - A Christmas Present to ourselves

Amaryllis - A Christmas Present to ourselves :)

While we bought a couple of these plants for other people at Christmas, we decided to have one ourselves. Very Pleased we did.

New Camera for Christmas

New Camera for Christmas

Snow - Well a bit

 A bit of snow in the garden today :)

Female Ruddy Darter - Sympetrum sanguineum

Female Ruddy Darter - Sympetrum sanguineum

Spent an hour in the garden this afternoon after shopping in Cambridge this morning (I bought a new hand sander :)

Out in the garden with my trusty macro lens this little beauty behaved very well and certainly posed for me. Sue is still in the garden trying to catch a Damselfly with little success.

I was quite pleased with these shots. 

It is a Female Ruddy Darter Dragonfly - Sympetrum sanguineum

#safaritothegarden

Still Life