Grevillea nivea – Scarlet King flower

Australia, flash, flowers, macro, Mt Annan, NSW, Plant, Textures

A grevillea from WA close up, but growing at Mt Annan Botanic Gardens, Narellan, NSW.

Crop of a single photo, using flash and a diffuser. Sadly lots of the detail are lost once image posted to the blog.

Telopea – Shady Lady

Australia, flowers, Landscape, macro, Mt Annan, Northern Territory, Plant, Textures, Uncategorised

The original Shady Lady is red like many waratahs. In this image you have three flowers in different stages of development, the bud, emerging flower from the bud and the fully formed flower, but not yet fully open. Single image, flash diffuser used.

Telopea – Shady Lady White

Australia, flash, flowers, Landscape, macro, Mt Annan, NSW, Plant, Uncategorised

Telopea is more commonly known as the Waratah family, floral emblem of NSW.

Older white flower dying with new flower emerging from bottom left.

For camera nerds: RAW conversion using DXO PureRaw2, simple levels adjustment only, background darkened, then sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI. Single image, using Godox V350o flash with Cynustech diffuser on Panasonic G9 with Panasonic 30mm macro lens, handheld.

Clerodendrum floribundum – bark

Australia, bark, Landscape, macro, Plant, Textures, trees, Uncategorised

The Smooth Clerodendrum, a very unusual colour palette on this bark, an observation from someone having viewed over 25,000 bark images now. Click on image to see full size.

Syzygium papyraceum – insect

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In one shot the other day there was a spider (upon closer study it is an insect). What is quite extraordinary is how little light the black insect reflected. You can see some light colours on the leg but the body is almost pure black, with almost zero body detail. An LED was used. You can see more detail in the full size image, but not much more. EDIT: captions on image are wrong.

Tree planted 1986