Category Archives: macro

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.

Eucalyptus kessellii subsp kessellii – bark

Australia, bark, Landscape, macro, Mt Annan, NSW, Plant, Textures, trees, Uncategorised

It was harder to find the common name for this tree than the previous one. Mt Annan Botanic Gardens called it Eucalyptus inversa, The Doc finally found other names including Eucalyptus inversa, Eucalyptus irritans, Eucalyptus israelitica, Eucalyptus kessellii subsp kessellii, Eucalyptus goniantha or the Jerdacuttup Mallee. The Doc chose the Brooker taxon of Eucalyptus kessellii subsp kessellii.

Bark rough, very hard and grey-brown to blackish over lower part of trunk, or smooth throughout on smaller mallees, smooth bark grey-brown and pale brown to pink-orange. EUCLID 4th Ed https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_kessellii_subsp._kessellii.htm

Corymbia hendersonii – bark

Australia, bark, Landscape, macro, Mt Annan, NSW, Plant, Textures, trees, Uncategorised

Mt Annan Botanic Gardens referred to this as Corymbia cafie, a little used name. It took The Doc some time to find the more commonly used name of Corymbia hendersonii or Henderson’s bloodwood.

Bark rough over trunk and branches to ca 2 cm diameter, coarsely tessellated, grey to dark brown. EUCLID 4th ed https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/corymbia_hendersonii.htm?zoom_highlight=Corymbia+hendersonii

Brachychiton populneus x acerifolius – bark

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

A rare cross hydrid, the Brachychiton populneus x acerifolius. Unusual green bark because when young this tree can photosynthesie on its trunk, not just the leaves, hence the green colour.