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Nasty - 09A_3445_nasturtium2.jpg
Actually, something I didn't know before is that these plants are not
really botanical nasturtium. I guess it is like "geranium" and "pelargonum" where an actual botanical name has been commonly misapplied to a completely different genus. Anyway, for the record, these are apparently called tropaeolum by the botanists. The actual nasturtium genus is the home of the edible watercress. I like nasturtium because of their tolerance to hot, dry weather and their exceptionally long bloom time. These will now be in flower until our first serious frost, probably in late October or November. The flowers are famously edible too, if you need a quick snack while weeding. I am creating a new flower bed on a slope by our driveway visible from the road, and I want it to feature fancy hybrid daylily. I bought a bunch them this year, but it will be a few years before they fill in and look good, so I also put in a quarter-pound of nasturtium seed to hold things over for this year. This is a variety called "Whirlybird" from Stokes Seeds, whose claim-to-fame is that the flowers face upward rather than hang looking at the ground as they often do. Intense reds like this are often hard to take pictures of because they tend to overexpose. This was spot-metered on the flower and also used a -1Ev override to compensate for this. This was also shot late in the day and the effect of the long evening sun made the background foliage too yellow, so I also adjusted the color temperature to compensate for that. The light is still rather warm, but more natural looking that it was. Canon 1DmkIII; EF24-105 f4L IS; 105mm ISO-200; f5.6; 1/640-sec e-mail: blissful-wind(at)usa.net Additional images at; http://www.flickr.com/photos/john-pa/ |
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