Trafalgar Burn
The area of Trafalgar Park that burned last year is returning to a green state, all sharp and thorny like it used to be. For the past year I have tried to get pictures, that work, of the charred stems of gorse and broom and other species that were fired, without a lot of success.
So here is another tactic – get in really tight on them. Which sort of works – at least it simplifies them, which was the main problem with all my other shots.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100mm/f2.8 macro, ISO100, f2.8
This post prepared in advance of my trip. I should be back by now, but not quite ready to prepare a post; this is a continuation of a series from Trafalgar Park, in Oak Bay near Victoria, BC. I will reply to comments ahortly.
burnt embers 
Beautiful! That color of pink is sublime.
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It *is* a great colour which I don’t recall seeing around very much, in nature. Goes well with blue-black.
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I think these are really imaginative, there is a lot to be said for closeups and the colours are superb..an excellent series of photographs.
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Thanks so much! I will be trying again, it bothers me that I have not got a good shot of this burned area yet.
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The first photo says it all – “then and now” – you were right about going in close, I think. This shot really works!
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Thank you Lynn 🙂 I love the colour of that plant, which has somethings of the colour of fire in it and in any case goes so well with black and gray.
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Oh wow, that third shot is totally awesome, Ehpem! I love all the textures and details from something you’d just never typically see at this level of detail!
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Thanks so much Toad. I think that branch/trunk is less than 1″ in diameter. It is very cool how textured they are. They make lovely shapes from further back, but they are all intermixed and very hard to separate out, even at f1.4, so I have not found a way to do them justice.
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