Enjoyable morning visit to a garden
May 18, 2023 23:22:39 #
Schreiner's commercial gardens here in western Oregon to be precise. My first visit. Learned about it from an article I read by George Lepp, titled something like "How to locate gardens for photography".
I spent an enjoyable 3 hours or so there, starting at 7:00am when they let photographers in early. Immense variety of flowers. I had difficulty narrowing down to a few to post.
Canon R5, first pass through the gardens with the RF 24-240mm lens, then changed to the RF 100-500mm once the bees started buzzing. That lens is perfect for flowers, or for zooming in close on the bees.
It was one of those days when everything was going well. I was remembering to check and adjust everything, trying a lot of options, the tripod, head and L bracket working great. I did forget to focus stack, but you should always leave one good reason to go back again!
I spent an enjoyable 3 hours or so there, starting at 7:00am when they let photographers in early. Immense variety of flowers. I had difficulty narrowing down to a few to post.
Canon R5, first pass through the gardens with the RF 24-240mm lens, then changed to the RF 100-500mm once the bees started buzzing. That lens is perfect for flowers, or for zooming in close on the bees.
It was one of those days when everything was going well. I was remembering to check and adjust everything, trying a lot of options, the tripod, head and L bracket working great. I did forget to focus stack, but you should always leave one good reason to go back again!
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These flowers looked like a desert. A custard cup!
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I started noticing bees as the sun hit the garden. They sure do "bug" me. They stay on a flower about a second, then off to another. Chase them with the lens, zoom in, try to focus on them, and fire off a few shots in a split second.
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I ended the morning here in one of these rather comfortable chairs, straightening the kinks in my back after 3 hours bent over the tripod chasing bees.
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May 19, 2023 00:43:50 #
Nice photos of those beautiful flowers and the garden where they live!! I really like #3 and #4!!
Dodie
Dodie
May 19, 2023 06:14:38 #
May 19, 2023 07:14:53 #
Really nice! I wouldn't even think of trying to shoot Bees in flight from a tripod!
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paulrph1
Loc: Washington, Utah
MtManMD wrote:
Schreiner's commercial gardens here in western Ore... (show quote)
Love the Columbine, flower lovers flower.
May 19, 2023 10:01:20 #
Beautiful flowers. I really enjoy George Lepp's articles. But since I no longer get Outdoor Photographer, I don't see much of his articles any more.
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