More Daffodils

With our mild weather, the daffodils are coming on like crazy. 'Trevithian' is in full bloom, which normally happens in mid-March. This is also one of the few years I remember when saucer magnolias bloomed and didn't get kicked back by a freeze.

I took more photos of some daffodils currently in bloom. I was looking over my negatives, to try and see if I could determine just by looking at a negative whether I would like the photo. I noticed that all of my favorite photos so far have really dense negatives, and most of the "blah" photos I've taken thus far have thin negatives. So, this time, I shot a roll of Ektar 100 film and erred on the side of longer exposures. Perhaps I made the exposures too long, because some of the resulting photos were very saturated and had strange color casts, as you'll see.

'Princeps'

'Princeps'

'Bittern'

'Bittern' - my most massively-overexposed shot. Colors turned out pretty wild.

'Cragford' - a long exposure using only available twilight.

'Cragford' - an even longer exposure with strong color casts

'Trevithian'

'Trevithian'

'Abba' - this photo was taken in almost total nighttime, but the long exposure captured the remaining blue twilight

Narcissus jonquilla, at f/3.5

Narcissus jonquilla, at f/11

Narcissus jonquilla var. henriquesii (compare with N. jonquilla above to see how this one is more substantial and the other is more dainty). I took this photo at night, too, with about a 14 second exposure, the light on the tree coming from my porch light.

Daffodils 2019

It has been a while. I've been growing and photographic daffodils this year, as always. With the mild weather and rain lately, the daffodils are really coming on.

Not a daffodil, of course, but the autumn-blooming Crocus laevigatus. This was taken on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, the first day it bloomed.

Narcissus 'Sweetness', always the first Jonquilla hybrid to bloom for me. I like the heavy substance to this flower. It never falls over and is impervious to rain.

'Cragford', vibrant red cups.

N. jonquilla var. henriquesii

N. jonquilla var. henriquesii

'Autumn Pearl' - a not-so-autumn bloomer for me. It started in mid-January. Incidentally, 'Wintersun' is always the first daffodil for me. It starts in early December.

'Minor Monarque' - I bought this from Old House Gardens. It didn't bloom last year, but this year every bulb bloomed. Conversely, 'Grand Monarque' bloomed last year but may not bloom this year.

Another shot of N. jonquilla var. henriquesii - the full clump.

'Sweetness' at sunset

N. jonquilla var. henriquesii at sunset