Colchicum 2015

[ArnoldT]

OK, Steve:

You're not to get away without telling me a little about how you captured this image.

Light, camera, etc, etc.

Amazing.

[Steve Garvie]

Thanks Arnold!
Both images were taken on a Canon 7D SLR with a 100mm IS macro lens.
The first was taken at noon in bright low winter sun -the plant being placed so as to catch the oblique light source which effectively helps pick out detail and saturates the warm colours. Exposure was a compromise between a fast enough shutter speed to allow hand-holding and yet maximise depth of field by closing down the shutter as much as possible (ISO 400).

The second image was taken on a duller day at a high ISO setting and so is more noisy. The plant's pot was top-dressed with some "orchid bark" as a foil and the image was taken from an overhead perspective. I had to wait until a break in the cloud cover allowed sufficient light through to take the image. In dull light it is the cold end of the spectrum that penetrates best -particularly useful for enhancing blues, though not relevant in this case. I would prefer to have had good overhead sun for the second image ......but this is Scotland! 

[ArnoldT]

Light levels sound like where I am.

Thanks,

[krisderaeymaeker]

 

Super plants and pictures so far ! Splendid 2015 .....

This one is almost finished now , these pictures are from few weeks ago. Colchicum doerfleri .

[krisderaeymaeker]

Colchicum luteum and 3 times  Colchicum kesselringii x luteum

[krisderaeymaeker]

Colchicum luteum 'Vahsh'

[krisderaeymaeker]

Colchicum kesselringii x luteum form nr. 1

[krisderaeymaeker]

Colchicum kesselringii x luteum form nr 2

[krisderaeymaeker]

Colchicum kesselringii x luteum form nr 2

Just another picture

[krisderaeymaeker]

Colchicum kesselringii x luteum form nr 3

[WimB]

They're everywhere!!!! Chris's luteum x kesselringii...driving me green with envy 

  Wonderful plants, Kris!! 

[krisderaeymaeker]

They're everywhere!!!! Chris's luteum x kesselringii...driving me green with envy 
 

Hi Wim , just to be sure you've seen them...........

[Hans A.]

Very nice Colchicum Kris!

[Hans A.]

Here a huge one from NW Iran - any Idea what it could be?

[Oron Peri]

Hans
I think it may well be C. crocifolium