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.