Sublime and Beautiful Sunday a few flowers in Buttonwood Park
This post is for #SublimeSunday is inspired by @c0ff33a and #BeautifulSunday is initiated by @ace108.
For today I will share a few photos I took on a walk the other day in Buttonwood Park here in New Bedford, one of my rare daytime walks. I dropped my wife off to get her hair color done, and since that takes about an hour and a quarter, I had my camera bag with me and popped to the park for a walk.
I loaded my camera bag up for this walk, including my Tamron 50-400MM lens, hoping to catch some photos of birds there on the pond, but there were only a couple of swans which I did get shots of in the distance, and may well share those at some stage.
I think the reason there are not many birds on the pond is it is covered with algae, but I will get into that later. I switched gears and walked around the park looking for other things to shoot, and came across this little garden by the greenhouse.
Sony A7iv 17mm F6.3 1/250 Sec ISO 100
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so I got some shots of flowers, starting with this Strawflower also known as an everlasting flower or paper daisy.
Sony A7iv 122mm F5.6 1/800 Sec ISO 100
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I think this is a close in shot of a portion of a Begonia, but I could well be wrong
Sony A7iv 135mm F8 1/160 Sec ISO 100
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and if google image search is not misleading me this is a Sweet William Barbarini Purple plant
Sony A7iv 50mm F4.5 1/1000 Sec ISO 100
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and this one I did not search as I think it is a Blackeyed Susan
Sony A7iv 102mm F8 1/320 Sec ISO 100
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Now back to talking about the algae on the pond, this shot shows how bad it is
Direct sunlight and temperatures above 75F 24C throw algae and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) reproduction into overdrive, and since we have been well over that at times, I guess its no surprise that it has happened.
Sony A7iv 17mm F8 1/400 Sec ISO 100
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I did speak to a friend who is part of a group, Friends of Buttonwood Park, about how it's such a shame this has happened. Another factor of course for the algae and the polluted water is all the geese that come here, they do their business everywhere and that contaminates the water.
I said that a fountain or an aeration system help to keep the water cleaner, and he mentioned that is or was aeration system there, but it doesn't seem to be working, and he would bring it up with the people who manage the park
to give an example of how it was before the recent heat we have had here is a shot from earlier in spring
Sony A7iv 28mm F7.1 1/500 Sec ISO 100
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And that’s all folks
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