Early January - Old berries and seed pods, new buds and flowers

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These were captured hand-held with a Panasonic G9 and Olympus 60mm macro lens in an hour’s session in our garden a week ago. They are taken from this album at Flickr which contains 1300 pixel high versions of these images and the others from the session.

The first four used Helicon Focus to extract and stack JPEGs from 6K videos. The first two each used a primary stack which was retouched in some areas from a different stack made from the same set of JPEGs. The second two are single stacks which were not retouched in Helicon. One of the stacked images was processed in Silkypix before going to Lightroom, the other three going directly to Lightroom.

The second four used DXO PhotoLab to batch process single raw files taken from aperture-bracket sets. Three of them were processed in Silkypix before going to Lightroom, with the other one going directly to Lightroom.

Four of the images in the album at Flickr had a round trip from Lightroom to Photoshop for compositional background stretching, but none of those posted here used Photoshop.

I exported 1300 pixel high JPEGs from Lightroom. For all but the third of these I then used Topaz Denoise AI on the JPEG.

1 – Pulsatilla. Stack of 75 video frames


1596 03 2020_01_08 P1122185 75f B26,4+innerC4 LR 1300h-DNAI
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

2 - Hypericum. Stack of 71 video frames


1596 07 2020_01_08 P1122238 71f B26,4+C4 LR 1300h-DNAI
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

3 – Hellebore. Stack of 27 video frames


1596 15 2020_01_08 P1122476 27f B26,4 SP9 LR 1300h
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

4 - Schizophragma. Stack of 25 video frames


1596 16 2020_01_08 P1122494 25f C4 LR 1300h-DNAI
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

5 – Heather. Single raw capture


1596 06 2020_01_08 P1122231_PLab3 SP9 LR 1300h-DNAI
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

6 – Nigella. Single raw capture


1596 19 2020_01_08 P1122650_PLab3 SP9 LR 1300h-DNAI
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

7 – Mahonia. Single raw capture


1596 21 2020_01_08 P1122739_PLab3 LR 1300h-DNAI
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

8 – Nigella. Single raw capture


1596 22 2020_01_08 P1122752_PLab3 SP9 LR 1300h-DNAI
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 
Nick
you must live somewhere down south in a nice warmer climate than up here in the North East. We have nothing like that up here, my garden is barren and so is the Washington Wetlands Trust just along the road. Oh, and you have some cracking images there, plenty of detail and colour, especially for this time of year.
 
Nick
you must live somewhere down south in a nice warmer climate than up here in the North East. We have nothing like that up here, my garden is barren and so is the Washington Wetlands Trust just along the road.

Yes, I live in the South West. North Somerset, about 300m from the shore of the Severn Estuary. That body of water gives us an especially mild microclimate.

Oh, and you have some cracking images there, plenty of detail and colour, especially for this time of year.

Thanks. Overall the garden looks pretty plain at the moment, but there there are little things of interest here and there - a single flower on a bush, that sort of thing. And some remnants from last year that haven't been tidied away yet. The heather and mahonia are the only things flowering in quantity at the moment. From the same set here is a different mahonia.


1596 08 2020_01_08 P1122256 44f B26,4 LR 1300h-2-DNAI
by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 
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Love the detail you supply Nick...
Thanks
 
Another great set Nick (y)
 
Nick
you must live somewhere down south in a nice warmer climate than up here in the North East. We have nothing like that up here, my garden is barren and so is the Washington Wetlands Trust just along the road. Oh, and you have some cracking images there, plenty of detail and colour, especially for this time of year.
Not as far north as you (Wetherby) but the Mahonia xCharity has been in flower since long before Xmas and still going strong. I planted it 25 years ago because in flowered in January but global heating has upset that plan. Heather is in flower and Snowdrops are out.
 
Just to add Mahonia x Charity is great for birds, they eat the buds, flowers and fruit and it is very popular for nesting as nearly impenetrable, viciously thorny. Can be cut almost to the ground if it gets too large.
 
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