{"id":2590,"date":"2012-06-11T06:03:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T06:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2012-06-11T06:03:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T06:03:58","slug":"hawthorn-blossom-in-a-polytunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn blossom in a Polytunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

This image was taken in a polytunnel (a type of polythene greenhouse):<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>This photo shows a pink hawthorn blossom, taken from the hedges around my smallholding. This year, for some unknown reason, I have seen a lot of pink blossom; even on the same trees as white blossom. I thought it was worth photographing.<\/p>\n

I had tried taking close-up outside as a distinct change from the studio where I usually take close-up photos, mostly with a black background. But even on a ‘still’ day you get a lot of movement. So I set up a temporary studio in our polytunnel as shown below:<\/p>\n

\"close-up<\/a>This set-up used a couple of old workbenches: the first held the subject, the second held the background – the background being some foliage I had picked. The polythene sheeting of the polytunnel gave a nice diffused light – perhaps a little too soft. In the photo you can see that the door is open (there is one at each end) – I had to close it because, even here, there was movement from the slightest breeze.<\/p>\n

In this photo I show a complete cluster of the pink blossom:<\/p>\n

\"pink<\/a>I find the colour here is quite amazing, and it complements well with the green background. Although I will not use the same foliage again for the background (it was young elderflower and it wilted too quickly), I thought it was quite effective.<\/p>\n

To finish, here is a close-up of a white blossom:<\/p>\n

\"White<\/a>The full set can be seen in the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This image was taken in a polytunnel (a type of polythene greenhouse): This photo shows a pink hawthorn blossom, taken from the hedges around my smallholding. This year, for some unknown reason, I have seen a lot of pink blossom; even on the same trees as white blossom. I thought it was worth photographing. I … Continue reading “Hawthorn blossom in a Polytunnel”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blossom","category-close-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}