The Back Braes

[Rob MacKillop]

My wife, Susan, is doing a herbology course, and has identified a path called Back Braes behind our house for study. So, we both spent some time there this morning, she taking colour shots on her phone, I getting to know the subtleties and otherwise of a green filter on the lens of my Q2M. In no particular order...

1. Starship Enterprise?




2. Dark Leaf




3. Emerging




4. A rather complicated scene




5. Light Leaves




6. Ditto




7. Against the sky




8. Said Susan




9. Ditto

 

[Rob MacKillop]

10. Sweaty Palm




11. Hmm...





12. Wall 1





13. Wall 2




14. Web



It was an enjoyable jaunt, and I really engaged with the green filter, which I've never really used much before. I used a yellow filter for three months - getting to know it well - and now I might do a similar length of time with the green filter before moving onto the orange and red. The year of the filters!

 

[Chris Bennett]

Some great images here Rob. I particularly like 7. Against the sky. Is that a bramble?

 

[Dave Farnes]

That is a fine and varied set, so many different things to see in one path.
Really like 2, the way the light catches the drops of water is great.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Yes, Chris, I believe it is, though I’ve never been good at identifying plants and flowers. It certainly has bramble-like features.

Glad you like them, Dave. I think number 2 is definitely called a leaf

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Any idea what #11 is? Or was?

 

[Chris Bennett]

Any idea what #11 is? Or was?

That very looks like a stinging nettle to me.

 

[Dave Farnes]

Could be a nettle or maybe a thistle.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Thanks, Dave. Lots of thistles around here.

 

[Chris Bennett]

Yes, Dave is correct, I think. It's a thistle.