THe unbelievable level of detail on this embroidered kimono featuring sparrows and flowers.
- Aperture: ƒ/7.1
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- Focal length: 20mm
- ISO: 4000
Tag: Flower
Lightscape 2025 – Dandelions #2
Another one of the giant dandelions at Lightscape in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens.
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- ISO: 4000
Lightscape 2025 – Dandelions #1
The first in a series of giant dandelions at Lightscape in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens.
- Aperture: ƒ/9
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- Focal length: 36mm
- ISO: 4000
Lightscape 2026 – Lunaires Detail
A close-up of Lunaires by Pitaya posted yesterday, seen at Lightscape in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens.
- Aperture: ƒ/9
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- Focal length: 75mm
- ISO: 1000
Lightscape 2026 – Lunaires
Another work by Pitaya, this time Lunaires. These super-sized honesty plant, or silver dollar (Lunaria annua) seed heads look as translucent and paper as the real thing along with the faint patterns making them look moon-like.
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- ISO: 2500
Lightscape 2025 – Blossom
Blossom by Pitaya, a French creative studio, part of Lightscape in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. The delicate flowers have colour gradients projected on to them, to make it look like they are painted with light.
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- ISO: 2000
Lightscape 2025 – Hoya
The five pointed flowers of Hoya by Jigantics at Lightscape in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens.
- Camera: E-M5MarkII
- ISO: 4000
Drosera gunniana
It’s amazing what you learn going through your photo archive. Drosera gunniana is an insect eating plant, we found this one close to the Early Nancy. As Fierce Flora notes drosera gunniana is often found in open grassy woodland near seepages. A lot of the farm qualified as that!
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 400
Early Nancy
Early Nancy, Wurmbea dioica subsp. dioica, is identified by the purple nectary band.
We found this pretty flower, a native lily, close to where yesterday’s photo of the Seven Creeks.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 400
Naked Lady Flower
A long over-due close-up of the naked lady lily (amaryllis belladonna) featured back in 2011, showing the delicate pink veining of the flowers.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 400
Pink Dog Rose
A pink dog rose and bud in the garden at home.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 100