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Cambridge Botanical Gardens, now the blurred ones

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As well as trying to get some nice pictures of flowers and bees I thought I might go for some intentional camera movement and multiple exposure effects. The multiple exposure pictures normally contained 3-5 exposures and were done either with my 105mm macro lens plus a 20mm extension tube, or my 24-70mm lens with an eight stop filter on it. Here are the results, some work better than others.

An intermission for pictures from Cambridge Botanical Gardens, first the sharp ones

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I spent a very enjoyable Wednesday morning wandering in the Botanical Gardens with members of the Cambridge Camera Club. The gardens were looking at their best and were a pure joy. We spent some time in the greenhouses until they became busy and then went outside for some refreshment and a look at the beds full of plants especially for insects. The weather was not as bright as we had hoped for but there were still plenty of bees and hoverflies to be seen and snapped. I used my Nikon 105mm macro lens for all the photographs, usually with a 20mm extension tube as well. Here is my first selection from the morning starting with a few insects. And here are some of a few of the plants in the greenhouses. I am afraid I have no idea what most of these are!

A belated look at the orchid festival in Cambridge Botanical Gardens

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At the end of last month I went to see the orchids in the Botanical Gardens in Cambridge. This was a chance not just to admire the orchids, but to look at the rest of the hothouse occupants and the spring flowers in the garden. We had lunch in the modernistic restaurant.