Suffering for my art.
Snagged a branch off a wonderfully photogenic, but wickedly invasive, bittersweet plant. They’re everywhere now, like purple loosetrife, choking the life out of native plants.
Anyway, I haven’t been shooting macro much so decided to bring out the big guns for these – the OM 90mm f2 and the OM 35mm f2 and the 25mm extension tube. No tripod, just my bag of barley and very bright shade.
I love how the berry coverings make them look like tiny lemons before they’re shed. The berries are just under a centimeter across. The background of this next one is an old grill cover (the one the frogs were living in) on the deck. It only looks good out of focus.
- Truly bittersweet
The combination of the extension tube and the 35mm lens allows me some really great angles of view. I like how it makes the berries look slightly menacing –
Awesome pics.
Raven
I love these pictures! Do you know what kind of berries these are? I might plant them in my backyard
Hi Kim, thanks for the compliment, but please do not plant this in your yard unless you live in China. It’s not a native plant and once introduced to an area will spread and literally choke the life out of larger trees and plants. I saw some today in a Nature Conservancy area and am going to alert them to it. You should have seen the state of the now dead tree it was wrapped around. Awful stuff.