[Riggomatic]

A couple Cosmos blooms with the SMC-K 135 at f2.5

[TwoUptons]

Nice photos from everyone! Nothing as interesting as squirrels or spiders here. Just some plane jane bokeh.

Wait, aren't those black-eyes-Susans?

So wouldn't they be plain Susan bokeh? 😛

But they are nice...

-Eric

[TinaS]

Wait, aren't those black-eyes-Susans?

So wouldn't they be plain Susan bokeh? 😛

But they are nice...

-Eric

We can go with that! And thank you! They are just some of my "weeds" I refuse to cut down because they're pretty and the bees like them. I also don't cut dandelions until after the flowers fall off, for that reason. Lol.

[edmundrt]

Another here from the F135, which I picked up for a silly good price the other day, hiding inconspicuously at the back of a lens display case in a camera shop. I don't use the135mm focal length very much, but one of the best Pentax lenses in my arsenal - the M135/3.5 - is one, so I'm not averse to them. The thing to say about the F135 is that it's a very different experience from other 135mm lenses, mostly because of the remarkably short MFD of 0.7m, which makes it a truly effective close up tool for photos of individual items such as flowers, especially on a crop sensor. This was taken at MFD at f4.

[Jome]

Orange Flowers with K-3 and 16-50 F3.5


This is not synthetic!

[goatsNdonkey]

We can go with that! And thank you! They are just some of my "weeds" I refuse to cut down because they're pretty and the bees like them. I also don't cut dandelions until after the flowers fall off, for that reason. Lol.

The best way to get rid of dandelions is to stop mowing the grass (for a few years). With their basal leaves, they start dying out if grass or other taller vegetation puts those leaves in the shade. People intentionally brought dandelions to America, as the young leaves were eaten and the flowers were used to make dandelion wine, so maybe you don't want to get rid of them.

Black-eyed Susans are native American prairie plants, not weeds. They are very easy to grow, and easy to collect seed from if you want to grow more of them.

[Riggomatic]

Nice photos from everyone! Nothing as interesting as squirrels or spiders here. Just some plane jane bokeh.

They look great to me!

We can go with that! And thank you! They are just some of my "weeds" I refuse to cut down because they're pretty and the bees like them. I also don't cut dandelions until after the flowers fall off, for that reason. Lol.

I mowed around a big patch of clover yesterday. I told my wife that was beetopia, and needed to bee saved.

[TinaS]

The best way to get rid of dandelions is to stop mowing the grass (for a few years). With their basal leaves, they start dying out if grass or other taller vegetation puts those leaves in the shade. People intentionally brought dandelions to America, as the young leaves were eaten and the flowers were used to make dandelion wine, so maybe you don't want to get rid of them.

Black-eyed Susans are native American prairie plants, not weeds. They are very easy to grow, and easy to collect seed from if you want to grow more of them.

Mine aren't actually Black-eyed Susans. The flower looks the same, but the rest of the plant is different. They are considered a weed, but I like them. Dandelion root is also used to make a tea for medicinal purposes. It's a beneficial plant, but most people don't want them around. Lol

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They look great to me!



I mowed around a big patch of clover yesterday. I told my wife that was beetopia, and needed to bee saved.

As bees are now becoming endangered, I'm all for saving their food!
And thank you!

[goatsNdonkey]

Mine aren't actually Black-eyed Susans. The flower looks the same, but the rest of the plant is different. They are considered a weed, but I like them.

I just looked back at the post of yours that seems to be the one that was being referred to. The flowers look like one of the species of annual sunflower. The centers of Black-eyed Susans are smaller, compared to the length of the yellow "petals,"

How tall do they get? Two to four feet? They could be grown plants from the black oil sunflower seeds from your own or from a neighbor's birdfeeder. They at most get to about five feet tall, and have much smaller blooms than the mammoth Russian sunflowers that grow as tall as 12 feet.

If you don't cut them down, and leave them standing as the flower heads dry, they are going to attack goldfinches! A nice follow-up to the bees!

[TinaS]

I just looked back at the post of yours that seems to be the one that was being referred to. The flowers look like one of the species of annual sunflower. The centers of Black-eyed Susans are smaller, compared to the length of the yellow "petals,"

How tall do they get?

If you don't cut them down, and leave them standing as the flower heads dry, they are going to attack goldfinches! A nice follow-up to the bees!

I think these are about 3 ft right now. If they start attacking goldfinches I will take them out! lol

[TwoUptons]

Not in my garden, and I don't know what it's called, but I'm pretty sure it's not a weed

FA 28-105 PZ



-Eric

[paulh]

From last Spring with the *ist D and SMC Tak 55/1.8:

[Kerrowdown]

Cross post of "For Whom The Bell Tolls", Wide open @ F/1.7

[wtlwdwgn]

Sunflower and Bee. K-3 and Sigma 150-500 at 500mm. Xpst.

[Riggomatic]

I just took a bee and flower picture as well

Honey bee on Milkweed.
K55mm at f8 and cropped