Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about a big splash in the pool, where my wife and daughter race against each other who’s making the biggest splash. Like, comment & share!
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Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is of sword lily, a flower I didn’t know I have in my garden, also knows as garden montbretia. We’ve been away for 10 days and beside the sword lilies we also enjoyed a few ripe strawberries from our garden. Let’s not forget about the tomato plants. Before we left some of them had flowers and today I saw this… Soon we’ll enjoy our own tomato salad. I can’t wait for it. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about a slight change of scenery for the next few days. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about a surprisingly beautiful plant called Vax Begonia. The pot only had a few flowers when I bought it from the supermarket for only £5. I didn’t expect to have so many flowers in the end, but I can’t complain. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about a stubborn bird eating from one of the feeders. I was fascinated by the perseverance and as always the reward is well deserved. The poor bird was standing on a tiny branch, just thick enough to hold its weight, plus was leaning forward and towards the bird feeder, hopping to find a treat inside the hanging pine cone. I am not a specialist, but I believe this bird is called Magpie, from the Crows birds family, one of the many British Garden Birds protected by […]
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about the first tomato flowers shooting out of the plants I transplanted 6 days ago. The flowers were splashed with mud hence the black spots here and there. As you can see in the images below, the plants are not very tall at the moment but happy to see the first flowers already here. I took the photos with my Canon 5D Mark 3 and Oshiro 60mm, f2.8 Macro lens, but when I edited them in Lightroom I noticed that lens profile is missing for this […]
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is a close up on an unripe strawberry 🍓 Last year I’ve had the strawberries in a hanging basket, but this year I transplanted them in the garden. So far the transplant was successful, and can’t wait to try them when ripe. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about the new addition to the garden, 20 tomato plants. It took me about two hours to dig and plant all 20 tomato plants. Each plant cost me £1 and I spent another £1.99 on Bamboo Stakes and £4.49 on Levington Tomorite, a tomato food ready to use. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about my healthy breakfast recipe with Gluten Free Oat so Simple by Quaker, warm milk, grapes, sliced banana and raspberries from my own garden. I hope my recipe will inspire you to live a healthy life closer to your friends and family and start growing your own fruits and vegetables. What you see on TV should be for your entertainment only. Sooner or later we are all going to die, let’s live this life to the fullest. No regrets!Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about a tiny insect on a strawberry petal. This micro world is really beautiful, and us humans we trying our best to imitate it, but we are far, far away in achieving the complexity and raw beauty. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about the flowers I bought for my front garden. All afternoon I planted the flowers into the garden. Lavender, roses and two other flowers I don’t know their name. I’m very pleased with the results. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about the 3rd perennial shrub in my garden, a purple rhododendron. Let’s see them all again: Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about a Pink Rhododendron, the second of three plants in my garden. This is also known as Great Laurel and the play with white flowers was covered in a previous post. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about the Dandelion’s Life Cycle. Once you get really close, the beauty of a Dandelion flowers will simply make you say Wow! The world of macro photography is fascinating and I am glad I bought my macro lens which allows me to get close and personal to bugs’ world. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, was taken in my front communal garden, and is a close-up on a chamomile flower. I also liked this image but I like the symmetry in the first image more. A few other shots taken that day during the same session. To capture this image I used a Canon 5D Mark III, with an Oshiro 60mm F2.8 Macro lens in bright sunlight. I can’t remember the exact settings, but from the metadata, I was able to extract the following: ISO 800, 1/250s most likely at F8, 1:1 […]
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is of Great Laurel, a type of evergreen shrub that belongs to the Rhododendron genus. I’ve got three of this shrubs in my garden and so far just one of them made flowers. Stay tuned to see the other two. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is about Dandelions, which have inundated my front lawn this spring. When development is complete, the mature seeds are attached to white, fluffy “parachutes” which easily detach from the seedhead and glide by wind, dispersing. Like, comment & share!
Today’s photo of the day, part of “a photo a day challenge 2020”, is a top down view on a bunch of tulips I saw in one of my neighbours garden. Interesting fact – the Semper Augustus tulip used to be the most expensive tulip sold during Holland’s Tulip Fever in the 17th century, about £4500 in today’s money. Like, comment & share!
Kew Gardens – A corner of paradise in London? One day, I decided to go out without knowing exactly where I’m going. I took the central line thinking of going to White City because I had never been to that place. I launched Google Maps and browsed the area. I spotted Kew Gardens and my destination was clear. The second I made up my mind, the train stopped at Mile End Station so I quickly changed to the District Line train to Richmond. The first train was for Ealing Broadway so I decided to get off at Earl’s Court and wait for […]
