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Robert
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Yesterday I went on a trip to Great Gable, one of the tallest of the peaks in the English Lakes. I took Christopher, my youngest lad, a loaner Nikon D3300 and the Nikkor 18-105 VR, which seems to be proving one of my best, most versatile lenses. We arrived just after midnight, parked and slept well, I had hoped to have been fairly well up by dawn but at 4 am I just couldn't raise the enthusiasm to clamber up the mountains. That came a little later... All images taken with Nikon D3300 set to fully automatic, recording JPEG images, using a Nikkor 18-105 VR, hand held, no tripod for once! This was the scene at 8am the Sun well up and a layer of mist covering the distant Helvellyn range.  Can anyone ID these two species please? A small fungus, the cap is about 20mm in diameter, growing in a remote waterlogged bog surrounded by what I think is sphagnum moss.  The second species is a lovely, delicate, little white flower, growing near to the fungus above. It's almost like an orchid except I don't think orchids live in water?  [/url]100% crop:  Unfortunately I forgot to set the image recording to NEF so I couldn't recover as much as I might have. Will add more images over the weekend, a bit tired right now. My iPhone reckons I climbed 165 flights of stairs and covered over 9 miles walking yesterday. |
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Eric
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Bog Bean...Menyanthes trifoliata |
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Eric
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I think the fungus is a 'bonnet fungus' although they vary in colour. They grow in damp mossy places. Just to show my lawn is more moss than grass..... Edit..a Though now I look at it closely, yours has a 'rifled' stalk. Hmmm Attachment: image.jpeg (Downloaded 30 times) |
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Eric
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Take a look at Galerina Heterocystis. |
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Robert
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Thank you Eric, I thought you might know. The Bog Bean... Menyanthes trifoliata it quite spectacular in a tiny sort of way, the tiny whiskers from the petals are fascinating and add a lot of character. As usual white flowers are quite a challenge, I should have shaded it. It would be interesting to make some UV images of it. It seems the fungus, Galerina Heterocystis is a toxic species. There is quite a large bed of the Bog Bean but only two Galerina Heterocystis. They are on a rather remote part of the fells, North of Green Gable. |
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Robert
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No sooner said than done! With the help of Google... http://www.ultravioletphotography.com/content/index.php/topic/32-menyanthes-trifoliata-bogbean/ |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:Thank you Eric, I thought you might know. Thank Jan for the Bog Bean.  |
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Robert
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Eric wrote:Thank Jan for the Bog Bean. Thanks Jan!  |
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Robert
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Have been really busy this week but now it's raining... I have been looking at the images again. During our final assent to the top of Great Gable, we were treated to a stunning spectacle of a fast jet at close quarters. I MISSED this stunning pic of a Tornado GR4, Christopher yelled to me "JET!" but I didn't have time even to grab the camera, a split second later it was in front of us. At eye level, very close and very loud moving very quickly. Initially flying normally, suddenly as is came into the gap between the mountains of Kirk Fell and Great Gable, it flipped on edge, then banked a little more before it dived into the next valley. I was told by a friend who knows about these things that it was probably doing 350 to 400 knots. Another shot of a lifetime missed!!! However... I have cobbled together an impression of what it looked like. The image of the Tornado IS NOT MINE, I plucked it from the internet, just to give you an idea of what we saw, the angles aren't quite right but it's pretty near what we saw. The valley is Ennerdale. Attachment: Screen Shot 2016-06-11 at 11.38.52.jpg (Downloaded 16 times) |
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jk
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Good work Robert. It looks very real. Pays to have camera in hand! |
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Robert
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Thanks JK, It was a bit of a challenge but I think it conveys the moment. As for camera in hand, it was very rough terrain and a loaner body, I didn't want to ding it on a rock. These two students caught us up, we had a brief chat then Christopher took it upon himself to become their guide!!! Never having been up there before. LOL He shot ahead like a mountain goat and found them the best route to the top. Until then he had been lingering and grumbling how steep it was... Girl power... LOL This was about 20 minutes after the Tornado passed us, about two thirds of the way up the scree section. It took us about an hour and a quarter to climb the 350 Metre high scree to the summit. Attachment: Screen Shot 2016-06-11 at 21.11.08.jpg (Downloaded 15 times) |
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jk
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 Need to climb on paths and come down the scree! |
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Robert
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That WAS the Path!!! Going back to the plant ID, I feel something of an idiot not having any plant recognition skills, despite a close involvement with botanical stuff for many years. I do know some plants, some very well but as for general plant and other nature recognition I am rubbish! I have even considered creating software to help by entering characteristics like leaf-form, colour, flower form, habit, etc. But I haven't had time. Would love to do it but I'm not short of projects! Yesterday a friend suggested http://www.aviasoft.co.uk/natureexplorer.html But it seems it only works with Windows and Android, whatever that is??? Does anybody know of similar software which works either web based, or on the Mac OS? Even better, iOS... Then I would always have it with me. |
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jk
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Have you looked at Plant Encyclopaedia by Florian Dana £3.99 in AppStore? I havent used it but it look quite good. |
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Robert
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Thanks JK, I have looked at it, seems superficial... Listed under 'Entertainment'??? I am currently looking at Mullen & Pohland GbR who have a large suit of bird, plant, tree, mushroom and a wide variety of other nature ID apps. Mainly £2.99 each although they do some bundles, non of which meet my interests exactly! LOL. Website: http://www.sunbird.tv/de/sunbird-apps-ebooks/ One of the features is you can take a photo, then have the app recognise it. That's OK with most plants or flowers, trees etc. but their UK bird recognition app also has photo recognition... I hope it's good at recognising dots in the sky! Even with a proper camera with strong telephoto getting a decent photo of a bird is a challenge with an iPhone or iPad, close to impossible. I think I will try an app at a time, see how it pans out, if it works I will start a new thread. A screenshot of the App Store page for Mullen & Pohland GbR, who are both qualified botanists btw. Attachment: Screen Shot 2016-06-15 at 08.44.56.jpg (Downloaded 8 times) |
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Eric
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Robert, Janice has emailed you a link to the uk national plant guide. It's a PDF you can download free. Whilst it may not have the interactivity of an app, it might be worth having on your phone or iPad. |
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