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Growing
I had a walk around the forest to see what’s happening with the flowers. I was particularly interested in the lesser butterfly orchids, they are already growing but will probably take a couple of weeks to bloom. Most things in the forest seem to be in the same stage and I saw a lot of buds of different kinds. A week or two and it’s the high season!
There is one spot in the forest which is covered by a green mat of ferns. I’ve always eyed this spot and tried to find out ways to photograph it, but even when it at first looks wonderfully light green, at closer look you find that the mat is a little bit “broken” so I never created any pictures here. 
Until today, when I saw the half grown wood cranesbill break up the fern pattern and this one leaf with a young fern nested on it. It really was like that when I found it, not sure I could’ve come up with the idea myself!
I tried to clean up the leaf before taking pictures and it looked ok in the viewfinder, but on the monitor I could see the leaf was full of little spots of different kinds, some kind microscopic debris that’s really easy to miss in the nature. So I did a great deal of healing to get rid of the worst, but when I realised that there were probably a hundred of these smaller spots, I gave up and used negative clarity instead. Which is a little bit ironic, considering that I shot it at f16 to get enough depth of field to keep the fern sharp!
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I arrived to my parents’ cabin in the evening on Friday. As I was driving, I had the sunset behind me and it was one of the most amazing sunsets I had ever seen. I don’t mean the setting sun itself, but I mean the sight I had in front of me – heavy rainclouds and the most amazing rainbow. Even though I was way under the raincloud, the low lying sun was able to light up the landscape so quite incredible, I had the rainbow in front of me for about an hour of driving. 
The rain cloud seemed to be moving the same direction as me. I didn’t stop to take any pictures, it was almost impossible because the rain was really heavy and it was made worse by the wind, so even if I could’ve kept the camera dry, there is no protection for the lens. So I didn’t bother cursing about the missed opportunitues, but just enjoyed the sight.
After three days of intensive driving, Saturday was all the more lazy. I’ve no idea what I did all day, took out the camera in the evening for a few lame frames.
I put a bit more effort into today’s photo session. It was a glorious day anyway, a calm morning with mist and a warm sunshine after that. I didn’t make full use of that though, I was more interested in macro – but calm weather and morning dew is never wasted on macro, either.
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