Deer Fence I
This is why people want deer fencing.
My neighbour’s have a complicated arrangement of raised garden beds with frameworks over them. They have found that if they put a fine mesh over the framework, then the deer stay out. They may pull a few things through the mesh with their lips, and mow them off flush, but it leave behind more than enough for the humans. A pretty good compromise.
In the photo above, you can see the out of focus anti-deer mesh that I have hinted at with a variety of macros in the past week or so. There is more to come. Also, these photos address another nearly forgotten promise, of photographs with ‘lone stalks’ for Melinda Green Harvey, who seems to like such things.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon EF 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, ISO100, f2.8, 1/500th (top), 1/100th (middle), 1/250th (bottom).
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burnt embers 
Ah, the fate of tulips everywhere there are deer.
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Hi Lynn – a sad fate for a flower. The deer around here are extremely healthy – fat looking with nice coats. This must be why.
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Hmmm, excellent image to end this post! While for a bit, the first image was my fav due to the faint mesh mixing with the stalk but then I realised I really liked the stalk with the tulip! Love the DoF, the way the light illuminates the stock and glistens the drops…just a great image! 😀
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Thanks David – I really like that light on the stem too, the shadow above and the bright areas below, though I had to play with the levels a bit to get any stem detail to show. At first I was annoyed that I had cropped the top off the bud, but the more I looked at it the more I came to like it.
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These are all lovely, lone stalks and all. The top one is my favorite; I like the way the stalk and the fence play off one another, and I like how the stalk is all the way over on the left side of the frame. That creates a nice amount of tension with the fence.
Thanks for the shout-out. If I actually DID own synchronicity (as you’ve suggested in the past) I would have had a lone stalk on my blog today. But I don’t, and didn’t…
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Thank you Melinda. More fencing shots to come, but no more lone stalks.
At least you have a lone shadow on your blog today, so that is arguably half way there.
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Yes, there IS that lone shadow, which could be considered stalk-like, I suppose.
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Well, it is lone. And I expect no less from a Lone Star State dweller.
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Yep. Native of the ol’ LSS. Explains a lot, right?
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I like the hint of the fence in the first photo, it’s there but not the main focus. We had the same problem with deer in our old neighborhood. I just stopped planting tulips but there were too many to control.
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Hi Ken – too many deer or too many tulips? This bud, though tulip like, is actually a nasturtium and they are spilling out of the mesh all around its edges – very neatly trimmed by the deer in most instances as they are very edible, even to us humans. I want to know why the deer don’t trim the grass in my back yard? Instead we find their nests pressed into the lawn from where they sleep, 3 o r 4 of them.
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I meant to say that I like the hint of fence too. I took lots of photos of the mesh, but mostly they predominate my shots – very different photos some of which I quite like. But when I cam back from shooting and had a look at the pictures, it was the out of focus mesh in the backgrounds that I found the most interesting.
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Excellent shots. The hues of the first photograph in particular are stark and striking.
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Thank you MIke. The right kind of hues to depict a gardener surveying the damage!
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