Wednesday 23 March 2011

New Attractions in the Moss Garden

Hairy Bittercress, cardamine hirsuta
Hairy Bittercress, cardamine hirsuta, emerging into the Spring sunlight. 
Hairy Bittercress, cardamine hirsuta
Well, its Spring now and the flowers are coming out, competing for attention with the mosses in the garden.  The first to appear was hairy bittercress, cardamine hirsuta, which displays a cluster of small, pure white flowers.  It appears to favour the shady cavities in the moss garden, so we are again going to need high magnification, and we will still be short of light.  So accurate focussing will still be a problem, as there is still no prospect of using a tripod, and shutter speeds will be slow.  In response I am trying out my Mark II miniature camera support.  It appears to offer an improvement, but I have still to achieve the sharpness that I think is necessary.           

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