Everything is in bloom, finally: tulips, lilac, thorn, cherry, barberry... I took just a very few quick shots on my way to the office, could not pass by this beauty, but also could not afford spend hours sitting on my knees doing macros.
Those tulips are gorgeos! Sadly, they fly off pretty quickly.
They are huge, and massive, and stable - that benefits the macro photography too.
And now the blackthorn tree. Several of these trees are scattered throughout the park, they are young and not very large in size - so from a height of human height you can reach and take photographs without tearing off the branches of the tree... But in order to get green as a background (this color is given by grass), I had to stretch up like a giraffe so that my lens looked down, and I also deliberately pulled the branch with my hands, lowering it lower. From a distance they look even better - a huge ball of pink foam. It is impossible to pass by such beauty! (By the way, this is probably some kind of decorative, garden version of the blackthorn - I didn鈥檛 notice that the tree had any serious thorns....)
Unfortunately, today is not a very sunny day, clouds are floating in the sky and the wind is constantly causing the branches to move. This is not conducive to good, confident macro photography - even the branches of the tree were also in motion, the petals of the thorn were fluttering and did not allow themselves to be photographed :))))
Still, I manage to grab some stuff. While I was standing near the tree, examining the flowers thru the pathviewer, a cool insect arrived. I did a few pics (which I will sow later), really have no time for editing photos right now. See you next time!
| location: | St.Petersburg, Russia | May 2024 | natural lighting |
| camera/lens: | Canon 5D | Sigma 150mm | raw-conv. |
| f 5 | t 1/400 | ISO 320 | --- |