Shades of green

I like taking pictures of plants and flowers.  I like the colours, the different textures, the different look when the light changes, and I like the fact that they are plants and all that means to a nature lover.

However, there are a lot of great plant photographers out there that I don’t think I could ever rival, so I concentrate on pictures of plants that are nearby and am trying to take more abstract and close up shots.

This is the same pine that featured in one of my most  abstract photos of about six months ago.  This time my eye was caught first of all by a small water droplet, then by the light on the needles at the edge of the shot.  I also liked the fact that it refused to be buffeted by the blustery breeze that made all the other plants impossible to photograph.

In essence I think that this photo, especially compared with the more abstract shot, shows a different facet of the plant.  There is the glaucous, subdued colour of the small cone and the fresher green of the needles, particularly when many plants were starting to look a little parched.  Unlike many conifers this is quite a soft needled, tactile plant which is one of the reasons that I bought it, and I think that comes through in the picture.

The picture was taken with a macro lens, handheld, ISO200, 1/125secs at f/4.0.