David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Afternoon walkabout with my new Nikon D850 camera and a 105 mm f/2.8 macro lens. Looking to see if there were any new wildflowers. There still are no where as many wildflowers as last year… I may have to go back to the electric fence as my security video show the deer coming by every night and trimming most of the wildflowers before they bloom. Individual images can be viewed here.
The Yucca flowers are mostly open. I hope to see the large white moth that visits them when the moon is full. Many years they don’t get this far, because the deer consider the flowers a delicacy. Each day that the sun is warm a new set of yellow Prickly Pear flowers open. The bees really like these flowers. Other flowers blooming include Day Lilies, Red Poppies, and Nasturium.
Rusted Screw and Lone Red Poppy Flower at an Abandoned Church in Rothesay, Scotland. Image taken with a Leica X2 Camera (ISO 100, 24 mm, f/4, 1/250 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro and Photoshop CC.
Honey Bee Entering Stage Left to Collect Some Black Poppy Pollen. What does Poppy Honey taste like? Image taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera 100-400 mm OIS lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/85 sec).
Lone Poppy Flower in a Field of Wheat near Donana Park in Spain. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 80-400 mm VRII lens (ISO 100, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/640 sec).
