Post your Flora Here!

[Jeffrey Sipress]

I'll start with this one from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Hiked the boardwalk trail to the beach through a coastal rainforest. Found these Ground Dogwoods actually climbing up the cracks in this old mossy tree. It was very difficult to get stability with the tripod legs on the soft earth. Ebony SV45U, Rodenstock 90mm, Velvia, drum scanned.

http://machinearts.com/fredphotos/7091groundogwoods.jpg

[Peter Mounier]

Beautiful shot Jeffrey!
Here's a pic I took in the Juneau environs...

Peter

[Jan Pedersen]

Beautiful Dogwoods.

4x5 Kodak 100VS 210 Dagor

[vinny]

Jeffrey, beautiful. Nice dimensional effect with the 90mm.

More Dogwoods, Yosemite, May 2008
4x5 velvia 100@200 450mm, crappy epson scan

[Collin Orthner]

One from Red Deer, Alberta along Piper Creek.

[Brian_A]

I know I posted this one in another thread, but what the heck. For those who didn't look at that thread can see it here :)

Horseman Woodman 4x5 with a DaYi 6x17 Back, Nikkor 150mm, Fujifilm Velvia 50 120, Gitzo 1197 Tripod at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens - Washington, DC.

-Brian

[Jiri Vasina]

Brian A, great use of the format, I like that a lot...

[Harley Goldman]

Corn Lily in Sonora Pass

Chamonix 4x5
Fujinon 240mm
Astia 100F

http://www.harleygoldman.com/web/The_Edge_of_Light.htm

[Brian_A]

Brian A, great use of the format, I like that a lot...

Thanks Jiri, I appreciate it :)

-Brian

[Harley Goldman]

Brian,

That is a very cool image!! Nice work.

[Ken Lee]

Harley, your Corn Lily ain't too shabby either !

[Gary Beasley]

Clover blossom plucked and taken downstairs to my studio lights. Ortho copy film, Calumet NX45, 210mm lens at a pretty good extension. White lightning 1800 directly overhead.

[Joel Truckenbrod]

Here's a couple from this spring in east-central Minnesota. Thanks for looking. Tachihara 4x5, Fujinon 135mm, Fuji Provia 100f and Astia 100f:

Skunk cabage.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/truckyj/SkunkCabage-08.jpg


Bunchberries, clintonia, starflowers against a lichen covered oak.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/truckyj/BunchBerries-Oak-08.jpg

[Brian_A]

Harley: Love the image, that's one of those images I can get lost in. Also, thank you for the compliments! It makes me fell like I'm progressing along with my skills if people from here like what I'm doing. I like to constantly evolve my photography skills by trying new things that, mostly, I learn from this forum.

Gary: Great image! It's not too often you find people don't B&W of flowers, just because most think it's the flower that is the great part of them.

Joel: Going back to the color thing, I love the color in the photographs that you made! I also like the level of detail in your images.

Keep up the good work everyone!

[David_Senesac]

That is a quite oustanding intimate floral image Jeff, beautifully well done. And Joel likewise, I love your similar floral oak image.

My considerable view camera wildflower work tends to be wider landscapes. And most of my own closeup wildflower photography is done with my tiny 7mp Coolpix. However from distances much like these two above, I also have an eye out for good subjects. This is one such image taken last year in the spring of 2007 just west of Yosemite shows poppies, birds-eye gilia, and other small wildflowers against a lichen covered slate outcrop. Provia 100f 4x5 transparency thru a 150mm Nikkor maybe at 1/8 second and f48:

http://www.davidsenesac.com/Gallery_B/07-I3-4.jpg

And from this spring of 2008, dune evening primrose, oenthera deltoides, against desert sands just outside Joshua Tree National Park. Provia 100f 4x5 transparency thru a 150mm Nikkor I recall at 1/8 second and f62:

http://www.davidsenesac.com/Gallery_B/08-A1-3.jpg

[gbogatko]

Here's two of the same bunch of very tiny wild flowers growing next to my house. I went for atmospheric and other-worldly.

8x10. #1 Heliar 300, #2 14" Verito.

George

[Bruce M. Herman]

From Alaska
1. Fall colors, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
2. Ferns and wild rose, Chugach State Park
3. Frosted tundra, Denali State Park

[z_photo]

Bruce, I absolutely love that frosted tundra shot. Is this typical in September or does it happen later?

[Harley Goldman]

Bruce,

I like the frosted tundra image, as well. Fine work. Lots of excellent images throughout the thread. Always nice to see good work.

[ljsegil]

14" Verito at f/4 and who knows what hand produced shutter speed with the studio shutter, Wehman 8x10, Astia 100F. Unsharpened, to say the least. Fun lens if you don't want your picture to very much resemble your subject (although Monet's Lily Pads were mostly done when he was essentially blind, Beethoven's later works while deaf, maybe I could be just the very least part of the impaired artists' club--though more likely just the charter member of the untalented branch).
Anyway, offered for your critical perusal and perhaps amusement at the sort of thing that some people will actually admit they created and even show in public.
LJS

[bsimison]

Can't remember if I've posted this one before...forgive me if I have.

Hosta leaves, Middlebury, Vermont. Tachihara 4x5, Schneider 210MM ƒ/5.6 Symmar-S, TMX rated at EI 50.

[Randy Acker]

Corn Lily, North Cascades, Washington. Agfapan 25, Fuji 210/5.6 on a Sinar F

[Jiri Vasina]

Forefront, field of Sunflowers


http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/leto/p13x18-135_web.jpg

Fomapan 100 13×18cm, Chamonix 5×8", Ilex Paragon 165mm.

[Michal Makowski]

This is my first picture on this forum, so please be gentle ;-) Toyo 4x5 150 Velvia 50

[gevalia]

Forefront, field of Sunflowers


http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/leto/p13x18-135_web.jpg

Fomapan 100 13×18cm, Chamonix 5×8", Ilex Paragon 165mm.

Jiri,

I just thought of a name for this photo. Calisthenics. I remember driving through fields sunflowers in northern AZ. Their flowers following the sun all day.

[SteveHicks]

I have been playing with flowers from the wife's garden for awhile now. Lot of fun.

[Jiri Vasina]

Jiri,

I just thought of a name for this photo. Calisthenics. I remember driving through fields sunflowers in northern AZ. Their flowers following the sun all day.

Gevalia, thanks for the suggestion.

Some images just grow on you, and this is one of them. I have a print on stand next to my monitor, and like it more and more every day...

Jiri

[Ken Lee]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/f12.jpg
5x7 Sinar P, 180mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
TMY, Pyrocat HD

[SadChi]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/f12.jpg
5x7 Sinar P, 180mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
TMY, Pyrocat HD

Ken, its a wonderful picture.

[Ken Lee]

Thank you, SadChi.

[GSX4]

Here's afew more

[Kuzano]

Forefront, field of Sunflowers


http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/gallery/leto/p13x18-135_web.jpg

Fomapan 100 13×18cm, Chamonix 5×8", Ilex Paragon 165mm.

The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas. Recent studies show that the changing climate is causing a Northward Migration and over the next Decade there may well be no sunflowers in Kansas.

[domenico Foschi]

are you saying sunflowers....have wings?:)

[Joel Brown]

I photographed the Century plant a few years ago. When I went back to do it again a Taco Bell was standing in it's place. I went in and had a Chalupa in its memory.

www.joelbrownphotography.com

[MIke Sherck]

You know, folks, arguements about traditional vs. modern vs avant-garde aside, I love these photographs. Can I have one of each? ;)

Mike

[venchka]

Answering the question, "Does anyone actually use cult lenses?" I guess I'm cult of one.

Voigtlander Collinear II No. 4 7 7/8" 1:5.4. Wide open and 1:22. Hp5+ in Xtol 1:3.

Comments, critiques and ways to improve are always welcome and appreciated.

Thanks for looking!

[Ken Lee]

"Comments, critiques and ways to improve are always welcome and appreciated".

I like the almost metallic look of the needles and other parts in the image. Perhaps there is a way to emphasize that a bit more, or it shows more when the print is larger.

By metallic, I don't mean chrome, but something deeper and more substantial, like platinum or lead.

[Miguel Coquis]

a few weeks after flora, I got this September apples
4x5, 210mm f:8 yellow filter
scanned neg

[venchka]

I'm not sure if this mushroom qualifies as flora. It did grow in my backyard.

Still struggling on the steep, slippery toe of the large format learning curve.

Comments, critiques and ways to improve are always welcome and appreciated.

Thanks for looking!

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/138982-2/Mushroom+1.jpg

[Michael Graves]

Hibiscus flower

[PaulRicciardi]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2949443743_5c82644fb3.jpg

Part of a landscape and nature project I've been working on recently.
I need conflict and imperfections in my art thus I tend to purposefully screw things up.

[kilimanjaro1996]

A 9" Petzval lens and a hot light, on Adox Pan 25.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/2963091497_3274b9035f.jpg

[Wally]

Here's some tulips I set up on the dining room table top. Provia, Nikon 120mm macro, about 1:.75 magnification.

[Peter Nolan]

The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas. Recent studies show that the changing climate is causing a Northward Migration and over the next Decade there may well be no sunflowers in Kansas.

[Peter Nolan]

I reckon if you kneecap the two leaders you will terrorise the rest into staying put in Kansas

[cobalt]

B&J 5x7, Foma, Kodak 127mm Ektar, Acufine.

[cobalt]

http://www.kenleegallery.com/images/forum/f12.jpg
5x7 Sinar P, 180mm Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar
TMY, Pyrocat HD

Very nice.

[cobalt]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2949443743_5c82644fb3.jpg

Part of a landscape and nature project I've been working on recently.
I need conflict and imperfections in my art thus I tend to purposefully screw things up.

I like this.

[Jeff Corbett]

I have neither the technology nor the skill to post online, but I do have one photo online from the print exchange a couple years ago. http://gallery55.org/lfgallery/index.php?action=showpic&cat=2&pic=33

Jeff

[mrladewig]

The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas. Recent studies show that the changing climate is causing a Northward Migration and over the next Decade there may well be no sunflowers in Kansas.

I live in the state immediately west of KS, and I can tell you what is causing them to "migrate". The price of corn has been going through the roof and farmers are trying to chase the market on that. Fields of sunflowers are being planted with more profitable corn for ethanol fuel. Strange as you could go the other way and plant sunflowers for bio-diesel.

We have plenty of sunflowers still in the ditches here in eastern Colorado. But last summer it was VERY dry on the plains until the very end of summer so the flowers were pretty sparse. Drought more than climate change has an effect on the flowers.

[Robert Skeoch]

I took this one this summer on Vancouver Island.
8x10 on Delta 100 Ebony camera.

[GSX4]

Here's one I took yesterday with a new to me Darlot projection petzval. Now affectionately known as 'Darlot the Harlot'! :-) mounted onto a home made lensboard made out of Gabon ebony, and used on my Chamonix 45-1N with a packard shutter.

Film is Arista Edu Ultra 100 souped in pyrocat HD 1:1:100 @ 70 deg f for 8 mins in a rotary processor. Printed onto EMAKS G3 paper. Lightly bleached back, lightly sepia toned and finished in selenium...

[Bruce M. Herman]

Bruce, I absolutely love that frosted tundra shot. Is this typical in September or does it happen later?

I apologize for not answering earlier. I completely lost track of this thread.

The frost can occur any time from August through October, depending on where you are in Alaska. In the case of this image from Denali State Park (just south of Denali National Park) and at a relatively low elevation, the foliage reaches this level of color in early to mid September. Near Wonder Lake in the Nationial Park, this stage would have been reached several weeks earlier.

Bruce

[SteveHicks]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3554167058_2e43c28d87.jpg?v=0

[SteveHicks]

I am hoping somebody can give me a hand here. I just added a post to this thread attempting to insert a link to my flickr site.

I have used the image icon in the "reply to thread" dialog.

The image does NOT appear, just the link. I see lots of folks displaying images using links to flickr and other sites.

What have I done wrong here?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Marko]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3554167058_2e43c28d87.jpg?v=0


I am hoping somebody can give me a hand here. I just added a post to this thread attempting to insert a link to my flickr site.

I have used the image icon in the "reply to thread" dialog.

The image does NOT appear, just the link. I see lots of folks displaying images using links to flickr and other sites.

What have I done wrong here?

Thanks in advance for the help.

If you look at your url, you will notice it ends with ?v=0 (right after .jpg). Just delete it, leaving .jpg as the last thing in there and it will show.

Like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3554167058_2e43c28d87.jpg

Everything that comes after .jpg is control stuff for flickr's database and only confuses the forum software.

Marko

[SteveHicks]

Marko,

Thank you. I may make into the digital world yet!!

[SteveHicks]

Here's another

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3305/3534818982_19944dbcf3.jpg

[drew.saunders]

I am hoping somebody can give me a hand here. I just added a post to this thread attempting to insert a link to my flickr site.


Here's how I get the flickr image and a link to the larger one, and I might as well add a Flora pic while I'm at it. Here's the pics page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/3375881933/

I then go to "all sizes" and pick medium and from Item 2 "Grab the Photo's URL" where it presents to me: "http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3629/3375881933_6664626445.jpg" (and I have to put quotes around it to keep it from becoming a link in this reply)

Next choose the Insert Image from the Reply to Thread and just paste that URL above, without the quotes. Then, select the stuff between the "" and make the whole thing a link using the "Insert Link" but this time to the large/original version ("http://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/3375881933/sizes/o/") of the photo. Result below:

[IMG]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3629/3375881933_6664626445.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/drew_saunders/3375881933/sizes/o/)

As you see, it's now a link to the larger version.

[SteveHicks]

Thanks Drew,

That was very helpful..

[Chris Strobel]

Hydrangea Leaves

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2461/3564717880_7a8d24225d_o.jpg

[jim kitchen]

Dear Chris,

Fabulous...

jim k

[Jiri Vasina]

Yes Chris, that is really eyecatching...

[Chris Strobel]

Hey thanks guys!

[shileshjani]

Hey Chris,

Excellent photograph. I have some hydrangeas growing and am planning on phographing them. Can you give us some technical details? I am interested to know what format, lens focal length, and f-stop mostly.

Thank you.

Shilesh


Hydrangea Leaves

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2461/3564717880_7a8d24225d_o.jpg