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My Scottish Garden In Autumn (+ Macro)
Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 12:49AM 
It's Autumn in Scotland . . . and my garden is alive with color and wonder.
The days are getting shorter . . and many of the birds have gone.
The leaves have gone red . . .
. . . or golden.
The apples are ready to harvest in the far end of the garden.
The garden is very old and the original planter created a garden that has continuous flowering . . . when one plant fades, another comes into bloom. These are still flowering in late October.
These miniatures grow from the nooks an crannies of the garden wall.
The garden hedge sprouted these blossom buds recently . . . although they have not opened, they attract large numbers of bees, wasps, and flies.
There is a great variety of foliage throughout the garden.
The roses were among the first to bloom . . . and they are still producing amazing flowers.
And there are more roses yet to come.
These popped out a couple of weeks ago . . . right before I was going to pull them out, thinking they were weeds! Close call.
Autumn weather can be wet and wild in Scotland . . . and occasionally throws up amazing rainbows. I watched this one go through many phases . . .
This rainbow ended in this striking streaked image.
Fast moving clouds full of rain cross the landscape continuously.
Rain and shafts of light. Beautiful.
Occasionally there is a window in the storms and a glimpse of the sky appears. Sometimes there is magical light that pours through the holes in the sky . . .
And when the sun pours through . . . .
These back-lit 'silver dollar' leaves . . .
So beautiful.
And when the garden stops flowering . . . I have house plants.
Dr. Jeff Harper
MACRO LENS IN THE GARDEN
It was a beautiful clear, late November afternoon with perfect 'magic hour' light . . . . why not throw the macro extension tube on the old Fuji X-T1 and go out and shoot bugs and flowers . . . .
Flies sharing the pollination duties on our late-blooming hedge.
Our hedges throw out these amazing miniature blossoms in great numbers and variety.
The bees were stocking up on pollen for the long winter months to come.
Busy bees.
Marvelous light . . . .
These photos were all taken with my Fuji X-T1, 56mm f1.2 lens and Fuji macro tube.
Pollen-laden bee . . . on the rounds.
Micro world.
Bee bloom portrait.
I think this is my best macro bee portrait.
I came back inside the house to look at the bee pics and was taken by the light in the conservatory . . . . perfect for house plant macro.
Tiny leaf world.
No wonder I've been sneezing!
House begonia.
House begonia.
The orchids are doing fine.
Back Yard Flower Macro Photography
Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 2:41AM I ordered the 1.6 Fuji extension tube for my X-Ti and it came yesterday Using the excellent Fuji 56 f1.2 lens I went out in the yard late in the day. Hand-held, low light macro photography is not easy and necessitates a very shallow depth of field approach.
I'm happy I ordered that extension tube. Macro photography can be very rewarding.
