Cinquefoil Summer
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Pollen hunting it
Alights, bud to yellow bud,
To capture summer
(K. Ryan Henisey)
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I have previously posted pictures of flies on the hairy or northern cinquefoil (Potentilla villosa) which is on a glacial erratic in the intertidal zone near the cabin. In that post one of my regular readers, K. Ryan Henisey, commented with the Haiku above – what a treat! He has graciously gave me permission to use the poem with this second post of cinquefoil pictures from the same location. I find his blog, lifeasgood, a terrific mixture of haiku, photographs, paintings, illustrated monster stories, musings on being a teacher and so on. And besides all that his favourite meat is Guudiingaay, so what’s not to like?
Thank you Ryan, for commenting with a poem, and for allowing me to use it here, and for being such a regular reader and discussant of this blog.
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To see larger versions of the images below open them in the gallery view by clicking on any of the thumbnails then navigate with the arrows and escape to return to this page. I know its a large gallery, but there are some surprises in here that can only be seen in a full sized image so I hope you have a look.
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This link catalogues my posts about volunteering on the Kilgii Gwaay archaeological site project.
Tansy, one of the Quimper Hittys came along and has blogged about the trip from a doll’s view and this post has some photos of Tansy and the cinquefoil.
Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 and SMC Takumar 100mm/f4 Macro lenses, ISO100. (EXIF data does not record aperture for the 100mm adapted manual lens, so ignore what it says in the gallery).
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No! Thank you for using the haiku!
What wonderful images. I’m touched and enthralled. There are too many wonderful photographs to pick a favorite. The yellow color is amazing.
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Yellow on grey – its a bit like Halloween 😉 It was a neat rock, on a rock beach, and worth the 5 minute walk from the cabin. I had been peering at it from the boat every day and am glad I got over to it. There must have been so many places like this near the cabin that I did not discover. More for next time, if there ever is a next time for me at Ellen Island.
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LOVE the picture of all grey rocks and one tiny yellow cinquefoil.
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Thanks skadhu – you and Ken and me all three. And there is no adjustment of colour or anything on that image. I think I pulled a light filter across the whole thing to darken it a tad, without saturating the colours, of which there are almost none. That is really how it looked.
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This is a wonderful series and, after much deliberation, I picked my favorites: 13, 14, 21. 22, 26 & 30. Especially #30!
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Thanks a lot Ken! Especially 30 for me too. I really liked that one, and when I spotted its possibilities took several frames trying to get it right. I am not sure I really did, but I do like what I came up with. And, its amazing how the cinquefoil will set itself into any old crack, including in the upper intertidal zone which must be quite salty. I like the 27 to 29 series also with the fly? emerging from one blossom and stepping over onto the other. It would have been nice to have a whole lot of shots of that process and turn them into a small stop motion gif, or similar.
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Love these shots, particularly the ones with the real shallow depth of focus. There’s just something extra that this technique brings to a photograph, and with your shots here this is perfectly exemplified!
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Thank you Toad – I must confess to having a bit of a thing with shallow depth of field these days. With macro lenses, there is not a lot of choice, but I find myself turning the dial down on the 50mm lens to f1.4 perhaps too often – like just half an hour ago 🙂
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It seems you and I share this sentiment, my friend! LOL 🙂
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