Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: biker on July 05, 2016, 03:10:33 am
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They're coming...
Just wait for the meteor shower that will make us blind and they'll strike!
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Nice flowers. Also the name of one of my favourite Australian bands:)
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Are they also as toxic as in our country?
White one are very rare in East Belgium.
Thierry
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They are beautiful and sharp. What is the real name for these again...? Surprising that there were no bees climbing in and out of them.
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It's Digitalis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis). They're pretty high, some of them over 2.5m (8 ft).
Yeah, they're toxic. We're the same latitude as Belgium so I suppose it'll be about the same.
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Foxgloves are common around here and we have quite a few in our yard. You have to ingest a lot to have any prolems. They re-seed readily. It is also common in Newfoundland to see Monkshood (wolfsbane) in older gardens which is considerably more poisonous. I don't know but I would expect that's probably true in the UK as well as that is where most of the heritage plants that we have came from.
I got a grin from 'Day of the Triffids' as I remember seeing it in the early 60's when I was pretty young and it left a distinct impression on me. It was not too long after the so called Cuban missile crisis. I happened to catch it again a couple years ago on an Air Canada flight among the classic movie offerings. That viewing removed any residual left over from my distant youth. :)
Chuck
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They're coming...
Just wait for the meteor shower that will make us blind and they'll strike!
Nice images and clever title :)
Though I wonder if it wouldn't have been more artsy to have taken the same shot at f/1.2-f.4?
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Thanks.
Though I wonder if it wouldn't have been more artsy to have taken the same shot at f/1.2-f.4?
It's f/4.5 @18.5mm (x1.5).
I'm not sure if the shallower DoF would work here. I had already problems to keep both foreground plants sharp. I also wanted to show Triffid "procession", their multitude, their prevalence - not just two nice plants with a bokeh background.