

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/8, ISO 4000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Burst
I've been busy with my Lightroom plugin stuff all weekend, so just a simple post today on some pretty flowers found among the moss during a recent visit to the Gioji Temple (祇王寺) in Kyoto.
We'll start with what I assume is some hydrangea (ajisai · アジサイ) just beginning to bloom...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Budding Hydrangea
It frankly doesn't look much in the small thumbnail, but clicking through to the larger version has the tiny buds in the center come alive like stars in a nebulae (or something like that).
I tried a side-view approach to get the petals edge on, and I shouldn't have been surprised when it caused the result to fall flat....

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Flat
not in a good way
I paused to sit on the steps to a small building and found myself looking at this fence.

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Simple
And over to one side saw a few potted flowers....

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Orchard
of low-hanging photographic fruit
The pink fuzz in there was seen in “Rich Colors: A Good Start to an Amazing Day in Kyoto”.
The yellow flowers made great fodder for depth-of-field fun, along the lines of the previous post (“Little Orange Mushrooms and Depth-of-Field Comparisons”), so here are a few shots of the same flower seen at the start of this post, from the same vantage point. The only differences among them from a composition point of view are: 1) how close I was to the flower, 2) where I placed the focus, and 3 the aperture size.

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 360 — map & image data — nearby photos
Subtle Petal Detail

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 720 — map & image data — nearby photos
Quietly Emerging
from a vat of yellow milk

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
Pollen Stonehenge
And finally, this... thing... whatever it is, caught my eye...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 1250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Thing
looks oddly tasty