St. David’s Day is March 1st and St. David is the Welsh Patron Saint. It’s like St. Patrick’s Day, except the Welsh get together and sing and read poetry. It doesn’t have the same marketing appeal as drinking green beer does. But, as a person of Welsh heritage, it’s important to me. The daffodil is one of the symbols of Wales. (like the shamrock is for the Irish)
I don’t usually use filters with my iPhone shots. There are so many of them and they seem gimmicky to me. But I was playing around with them, seeing how they worked and so on. I thought these were nice enough. Don’t think I’ll keep using them, but I thought I would share.
I took these this week in my garden. I have had this little bunch of Siberian Iris since we bought the house, but this was the first year that I have pruned back the old vegetation in the fall. In past years I had some blooms in January, but I’m getting lots more blooms and earlier. Not sure if it is the pruning or not, but the weather hasn’t been particularly unusual this fall. We’ll see … if I remember to prune in October next fall.
The above image was isolated using an AI mask in Adobe Lightroom Classic.
The mountain across the valley (which is the Duckabush) is Mt Steel. The small stream runs down into LaCrosse Basin … this is all in Olympic National Park. It’s a very remote area … 20 miles or so away from any trailhead … which helps cut down on the number of boots smashing the flowers down. We were very careful to step on rocky areas as we made our way across the meadow.
Very wide-angle lenses are usually used for distance shots. I liked the effect of using it on clover that was close by. There is obvious distortion on the sides and corners, but all those converging lines draw your attention in to the clover.