Fireworks Season

In this case less of a nighttime show in the air but Firecracker Columbines are starting their annual show in our backyard. I caught one bloom in some really nice light late yesterday afternoon and scored this shot.



C&C always welcome.

This is not familiar to me -- a great name for a spectacular flower -- and the lighting and photography are superb!

DES said:

This is not familiar to me -- a great name for a spectacular flower -- and the lighting and photography are superb!

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Thanks Darryl - lots of different variants of columbines have been bred through the years and these are amongst the more spectacular examples. Columbines are quite promiscuous so we now have quite a number of other hybrids of columbines that have cross bred with these to give us a pretty wide range of colors in the months to come. I am pretty happy with how the light worked out for this shot.

Nice colors for the bloom - the dark background works to enhance it.

Jameel Hyder said:

Nice colors for the bloom - the dark background works to enhance it.

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Thanks Jameel - I had one shaft of light coming through our cedars that was shining directly on this bloom so the shadows behind went almost completely dark which was perfect.

You got me Alan! I was thinking that I guess it's almost Memorial Day and summer so it is about fireworks season. But in the back of my mind I was thinking also that you might be pulling a fast one on us!

That's a super cool flower, not one I have seen in the wild, though I have seen quite a few Columbines.

JimFox said:

You got me Alan! I was thinking that I guess it's almost Memorial Day and summer so it is about fireworks season. But in the back of my mind I was thinking also that you might be pulling a fast one on us!

That's a super cool flower, not one I have seen in the wild, though I have seen quite a few Columbines.

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Gosh Jim - you think I would really pull a fast one with a misleading title? I am shocked of course as I would never do something like that

Columbines like this one and some we have with double flowers are hybrids someone created in a greenhouse. Columbines readily cross pollinate and fancy ones my wife bought from seed catalogues are happily creating new hybrids in our beds.