Daily garden photos: w/e 31st August

Beetroot is my favourite from this week’s photos:

beetrootThis was Thursdays photo, taken in the morning before the weather turned wet. My wife had pulled beetroot up for making chutney leaving a gap in the row where I could place the camera for a low-down shot. The two snail shells were there – I did not place them. I like this shot for both the colour and the depth plus the unusual nature of the image.

My wife had pointed out to me some flowers that grew taller than usual as they had to make their way up through a dark-leaved variety of an elderberry tree – this made a suitable image for Monday:flowers in elderberry

This, I feel, has good juxtaposition of colours: the yellow flowers, their green leaves and the dark tones of the elderberry foliage.

It rained on Monday night. This meant everything was dripping wet on Tuesday morning, including this fuchsia:

wet fuschiaI like this for the way the water is sitting on some of the petals. I also like the bright colours of the flower contrasting with the darker background.

Most mornings I walk past a mature sycamore tree when I go to let out the turkeys. On Wednesday I took my camera to take a view up the trunk into the centre of the tree:

sycamoreThis image did need a bit of manipulation to get it to look right – I think the green colour cast formed by the leaves confused the camera a little. I do think this conveys some idea of the strength and height of the tree.

Finally, on Friday I decided to photograph these white lilies. I have had my eye on them for a couple of days but decided to take the photo today before age, and the wet weather, spoiled them.

White lilyAlthough the photograph is reasonable, there is a lot of contrast in the scene between the sunlit white petals and the foliage in shadow. I took this quite early in the morning as we planned to be out for most of the day. The morning, though, had a very strong feel of autumn to it – last night it was quite wet and windy so there were a lot of leaves and twigs about, it was very damp (everything was dripping), and there was a distinct cold nip in the air. Summer is over!

You can see all these daily photos in the garden gallery.

Author: Paul L. G. Morris

I am a freelance photographer whose distinguishing feature is that I am prepared to photograph the unusual and the overlooked. Having had many years of experience pursuing the creative art of photography, coupled with more recent experience as a portrait photographer and garden photographer, I now work professionally through my business: PM Studios Ltd.