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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:01 am    Post subject: Elderberry flowers Reply with quote

shot hand-held with Macro Elmarit-R very much stopped down (f/11 or f/16), to have most of the flowers focused, so there is a bit of clarity loss due to diffraction:




a 100% crop:


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Really nice photos, and good to see Spring is here. Very Happy


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those flowers don't last for very long and it's the berries people usually go for. That is one marvellous lens Orio - your collection is now fabled Smile Smile

Do you use the berries to spike your gin?


patrickh


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

patrickh wrote:
Those flowers don't last for very long and it's the berries people usually go for. That is one marvellous lens Orio - your collection is now fabled Smile Smile
Do you use the berries to spike your gin?
patrickh


Actually, no... I am no gin drinker Smile
This tree is my cats' stairway Wink The berries are annoying as they dirty my terrace with their black ink.... but the tree is nice. It is wild and native here, you see lots of them around Smile


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice flowers, well photographed. I do not think I have ever seen them before, thanks for posting them up Very Happy


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Graham.
I think you should have this tree in Scotland also. it is a very rustic species.
It likes nitrate soils and so it grows a lot near abandoned houses, ruins etc. look for it there.


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great clarity! A good choice to use DOF to get everything into the scene as a sharp element.

When time comes in the Fall for berries to drop and stain - I usually put old battered towels or cloths under the tree. The stains are difficult to take away from concrete, even with a pressure washer.


PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The plant is well known in the UK where it is used to make local fruit wine. If you soak a bunch in gin for a few weeks they impart a very intriguing flavour


patrickh


PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2009 1:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've never seen these flowers before, and your capture seems to show
them in extremely full detail, Orio. Well done.


PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2009 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SkedAddled wrote:
I've never seen these flowers before, and your capture seems to show
them in extremely full detail, Orio. Well done.


Thanks Craig.
It's normal that you haven't seen it before, because Sambucus nigra (which I photographed, commonly called Black Elder or Elderberry) is a Euro-Asian species.
The genus Sambucus, however, has also native species in the North American continent, especially on the West Coast and in Canada.
Here's the Wikipedia page on the genus Sambucus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderberry
it features a list of the species. There you can find also the north-American ones, whose look I am not familiar with, but I assume they should not look much different from Sambucus nigra.


PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2009 12:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to work with a guy that made elderberry wine. He was always going to bring some in for me to try but never did.

Your picture shows a lot of detail and has very nice colors.