Wednesday walk - golden bug, blackthorn in bloom & streets - 20 fotos
Hello! Wednesday got off to a great start. After a few cold and rainy days, warm sun returned and sitting at home is absolutely out of the question... especially if you have to go to the office :) Yesterday I saw a blooming blackthorn in the park, so I decided that today I'll pass by armed... - and put in backpack macro lens 150mm.
So, today's walk was inspired and aimed for the macro (but a few nice #streetphoto also came in, as well). My blog goes with #WednesdayWalk challenge by @tattoodjay, and for #alwaysaflower by @dswigle.
As soon as I went outside, I stuck at the very first tulips flowerbed in the neighboring yard; the morning was not that early, more like a noon (yes, yes, today I was lazy :) ... and I found I didn’t the only one who wants to enjoy a warm May nature outdoors. A respectfully organized group of elementary school students walked past me to an excursion...
I am very into papping kidz, you know. Therefore, my tulips macro-photos became sandwiched with half a dozen photos of happy kids on a walk. I waved at them, and they waved back at me. The art of socialization!
That was a nice Wednesday start, but much more fun lay ahead of me.
Right at the park's entrance...
So yesterday I spotted in the park these few small but impressive trees. That is a real explosion of pink, almost like red maples in autumn. Well, there are some green leaves on these trees... but not much - they are visible only when you come closer. Otherwise, it's just one continuous ocean of flowers, an explosion of blooms!
By the way, I label it as "tree", but which one, exactly? if you assume this is an apple tree... you will be mistaken! Check the photo above for comparison: apple tree often has white (and smaller) flowers. And these pink ones are 2-3 cm in diameter! I faintly recall seeing red berries at this spot in autumn; therefore I am ready to assume this is more likely a kind of blackthorn ... maybe a blackthorn and plum hybrid? I feel excited; oddly enough, but I've never seen a blackthorn bloom!
These trees are delightfully appealing, from a distance it even may seem that this pink is artificial, that its kind of fake decoration. Is such a boisterity of pink really possible in nature?
One simply can't walk by without taking photos.
So did I... took a lot of them (but no selfies ;)
This is how I imagined the goal and results of my walk - and I got them, exactly as intended, in large numbers 😜 But that is not all. While I stood still focusing...
...a sparrow arrived! I feel sorry to add such a crappy pic to my post, but the sparrow did not let me to take better takes --
...literally, in two seconds he discovered me, and departured off.
At one of the leaves I found a tine ladybug!
The first ladybug of 2023 for me, and lets hope, not the last one...
Sadly, she did not pose me -- preferring to hide in the shadow or in the downside of the leave, and promptly ran away as soon as decided that I am too much of annoyance :)
And now goes the best part of my walk: golden beetle!
I heard some buzzing... inspected more attentively the tree and found this new visitor:
Rose chafer or the Green rose chafer, or Cetonia aurata (Lat.), or Золотистая бронзовка (Rus) isnt a rare beetle -- wiki says, it can be found throughout Eurasia (with the exception of mountains and deserts). It feeds on flowers of wild and garden plants, including fruit trees (but does not apply to pests and enemies of gardening).
The thing is, the last time I encountered it was ... I dont remember exactly - 10, 12 years ago?.. This beetle has amazing color and very photo-friendly. Best thing about it is, er.... that it is rather retarded than shy or scary buggie -- thus, it cooperated very well with me and camera. The rest of the day was spent fruitfully, I forget about my office duties and had nothing except the beetle shepherding fun.
And now let me add a few #streetphoto as a bonus. I headed to the park exactly for doing macros, but ofc I looked around and could not resist the pleasure of capturing some other folk's activities, which is always the most fun for me.
I noticed an ordinary girl who was sitting at a most ordinary bench, and did nothing. But if you take a closer look at the photo... you will see she is enjoying her drink, clutching a safe cigarette with fragrant smoke in her hand, listening to music (or some kind of self-education podcast, maybe? lol) ... and of course she enjoys a beautiful May nature, warm and sunshine as well as loneliness. A nice example of multi-tasking, only women are capable of that. Isnt that a proper case for #letmesmile with @elizacheng? now move on.
Kids and their parents enjoy the boat fun!
Watching activity at the playground was double, triple fun! (cause I walked away with some funniest captures, as the one above).
Now you may ask about the office... er... meh... Today I was late by a few hours. Thanks God my duties can tolerate this!!! All the amazing harvest I've got today totally was worth it.
location: | St.Petersburg, Russia | May 2023 | natural light |
camera/lens: | Canon 5D | Sigma 150mm | raw-conv |
Thanks for walking with me, see you next time.
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haha, yes, you are so correct! I'm drilling into my job now. A change of field is the best rest, as they say. This indeed turned out a gorgeous walk with nice photo harvest! I am pleased with it myself so much. Hugs, and warm thankyou for support 🍕 and a slice of hot Hive !PIZZA, as usual 😘😏
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Богатая прогулка получилась. А жучка этого мои дети когда-от называли БРОНЗОВИК. Они их собирали на сиренях.
А я без людей гуляю.
А меня в голове он почему-то называется "майский жук"... хотя майский жук совсем другой, не сиящий... сугубая ошибка - наверное, кто-то из взрослых в моем детстве ляпнул перепутав - а мне втемяшилось, и все, ни туда ни сюда. Но это конечно же бронзовка.
Прогулка да, удивительно богатая вышла. Столько всего в какой-то час уместилось. Мораль ясна: все интересное приходит к тому, кто гуляет и смотрит по сторонам... и ничего кроме пыльных архивов у того, кто сидит дома. 😁 ☘️☘️☘️ !BEER
"все интересное приходит к тому, кто гуляет и смотрит по сторонам..." - эт точно. всё в движухе.
ага! вон tatdt -- всё время в движухе, движется по разным окрестностям, и к ней приходит... ну если не всё, то хотя бы апрешиэйтор xD
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.Those are some beautiful capture my friend.
I thought the sparrow is friendly and brave enough to get close to you, but it was wrong since he flew away after seeing you. !LOLZ
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Bad sparrow, bad -- he does not deserve even a tiny bit of the !PIZZA you treated me. And actually that is the only thing I may complain about. Glad you enjoyed the visuals and walking with me. 🙏
It looks a very nice walk! I like so much the color of that wonderful tulip. ;)
Me too! a very pleasurable, non-over-used dark velvet. Any good words for the buckthorn macros?.. (even tho its pink color is not rare or intresting at all... ) ☘️
Very pleasant trip today.
The beetle looks very comfortable with you, hehehehe.
Yeah! That sort of beetle is very
returneddumba, remembered the correct word: numb! and macro-friendly, cause it is very, very, very slow -- I am sure you can understand how much it benefits to the macro captures :PI will share more pics from this set, later 🍻 !BEER
Yes, that's right.
With the slowness of this beetle, it provides very good benefits for us to take macro pictures.
I will wait for your next picture.
ah, it will not be today, I actually consider my next post about Pets. (there is this challenge this week, you know?..)
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.Waw, it's great to be able to enjoy a beautiful day like the one you experienced, a special trip with amazing photos
Happy Happy #Wednesdaywalk
Grazie Mille! 😘
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Those june bugs are fun photo subjects. They used to completely infest our peach trees where the peaches looked green from so many beetles feeding on them.
oh my!!!! I cant imagine this picture.... but as a witness, tell me, what about the fruit trees? did your peaches suffer from such a beetles flood? wiki says they are not considered as pests and give no har mto the trees (even tho they feed off their flowers). curious.
Oh yeah they would completely eat the fruit of the peach down to the pit. Fortunately they didn't do too much harm as we harvest the peaches before they come out. They only got to eat late fruiting peaches. They like to eat apples too. Here's an example Though now that I look closer your beetle appears slightly different.
thats simply a-ma-zing!!! I'd love to feed this army with my late apples (often we have almost none, hehe) xD
that is quite legit. again, as wiki states, this beetle has a lot of design varieties: intraspecific diversity in coloration is very high; 7 subspecies are known, which differ in area, body integument sculpture and coloration. In turn, within the subspecies, many aberrations are distinguished, which differ from each other in color and the presence or absence of hairs in certain parts of the body. (wiki)
I learned since being a five year old child the stunningly colored emerald green Japanese beetles are the absolute worst! Awesome video of the shits! @sketch.and.jam !LADY
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Such gorgeous photos
Sorry I don’t know what type of tree it is
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.Must have been a lovely walk. Love the tulip and the sparrow pic.
Thank you kindly for choosing your favourites, ☘️ I always appreciate this a lot. 🙏🙏
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You took some very beautiful photos, that park is ideal for this type of photographic walk, it has quite a variety of settings and very, very beautiful trees
The park? I'd rather say its macro lens ideal for this type of photographic walk, well anyway, thank you for the visit, glad that you appreciated my visuals.
What a colours… so vibrant and sunny.
Love the dark colour of the tulips 🌷 stunning.
The blossoms on the trees… all so happy looking. The little insects.
The iridescent of the beetle 🪲 is awesome. Great captures @qwerrie 😊👋🏻
Thanks for sharing. I did manage to post today an update… also with flowers and much more 😎
Have a great evening!
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Grazie Mille! Glad you enjoyed the visuals 🍕 !PIZZA is exactly what I needed after this post. But I will not share it with that sparrow, who refused to pose me ☘️
You are so welcome @qwerrie 😎
I was thinking you would enjoy the !PIZZA after such a post.
Nope, I wouldn’t have shared with the sparrow either, he didn’t pose for you.
Have a fantastic weekend 👋🏻☀️
Beautiful pictures! Love the ones of the beetle, it has stunning colors! 📸😍
как давно я не бродил по этой платформе... ))
Заметил, что у тебя несколько изменился подход к постобработке.
Вроде она стала глубже.
Ты наловил много удачных моментов, хорошая охота. С телевиком бродил?
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Да я конкретно хотел поснимать и шел к тому терновому деревцу. А по дороге, вот, налипло еще кое-чего. Подход не изменился, не сказал бы. Ну разве что -- смелее делаю светлое и средние тона - еще светлее. Не знаю, понятно ли объяснил :))) и ещё !BEER тебе! не жалко, за такую аппрешиацию поста дело выпить святое дело!
понятно объяснил )
Ты их на кривой тонов осветляешь или ползунками?
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ни так, ни так. кисточками во время проявки рава. или, после этого, когда уже картинка в фотошопе - кисточкой Dodge.
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кривой тонов удобно править, в Лайтруме.
там и кисточка имеется )
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Кривая тонов отличный инструмент - для глобального исправления тонов в каком-то диапазоне. Кисть - лучше для локального исправления, без того чтобы выделять отдельные зоны изображения. Надо наверное видео снять какое-нибудь с экрана..
в ЛР как и ФШ есть градиентный, радиальный и кисть коррекции. Там не то что править, рисовать можно :)
Но кривые мне нравятся, они сразу настрой задают. Ползунками как-то получается иначе. Здесь взаимозависимо, что ли.
А видео сделай, интересно за процессом понаблюдать)
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.Your post is really mind blowing. Photography 10/10
Thats a precious comment for me, as an amateur photographer. But perhaps it is post-processing to blame?.. maybe in this field I am a bit 'pro'. (I am non-native speaker, note it, my EN may be not correct. Just such a caveat emptor. ) Let me treat you back with Hive !PIZZA 🍕
Your comment made me happy.Meanwhile I am also not native so don't worry 😂
he, he! 🤓 I dont worry, sure thing -- cause I never intended to improve my EN on the blockchain... already have got some decent language level. cheerz!
Great photography...is amazing how such simple things can make great photos - you certainly have an eye for a photo!
Grazie Mille! that was a happy photosession, indeed.
Deti, zvety i tarakany - lepota
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Look at you!! I am late to the party~ I actually thought the tree was a crabapple tree, but, then it isn't, is it?
You brought me all kinds of flowers! Thank you always!
Сrabapple tree, would not be of pink color, right?
Anyway, all those flowers were of one, beautiful kind ☘️☘️☘️💖
I could see the beautiful flowers of yours , they are amazing