Spring has arrived and the Colours come back...

These are pics I shot yesterday and today. Spring has finally arrived and with it some lovely colours....

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What we miss during the cold Season: Colour

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Cherries in white...

"cherries"

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Apple Blossoms

"apple"

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Lilac

"Syringa" (Oleaceae)
lilac, Flieder

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Apple Tree Blossoms in magical Light...

Appletree blossoms are undeniably beautiful - as all blossoms are. They are the latest to arrive in the year when cherries and magnolias and all other are gone.
To photograph them the best is to look for special lighting, when the sun is not quite on the blossom but is coming from the side or from behind. Then you can notice how transparent these blossoms are and how magical. I cannot stop looking for these scenarios...

"apple blossoms"

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An unknown Beauty....

Can anyone help here please? I have researched the Internet but haven't found it. I have no idea what this delicate beauty is. It looked awesome, backlit by the sun, so incredibly graceful. But I have never seen a plant like this one...

"unknown" - not any more
"Cornus Florida"
dogwood, Blütenhartriegel

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Peony - the Queen of all Blooms...

Aren't these blooms to die for? It is not easy to catch them at the right moment - I mean sometimes you have other things to do and you cannot go on tour each day to check whether there is anything for the lens. Sometimes the weather is just too ugly at the time when these blooms should appear in their full magnificence and heavy rain means definitely their death sentence. But sometimes you are lucky and you are there at the right place at the right moment...

"Paeonia" (Paeoniaceae)
peony, Pfingstrose

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More Peony Dreams in Pink and White...

I just could not hold back some more images of these beautiful blooms. The time for their glory is just too short so it is invaluable that we have the techniques to keep their beauty forever - thanks to photography....

"Paeonia" (Paeoniaceae)
peony, Pfingstrose

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Peony Dreams....

Peonies belong to my absolutely favourite blooms. Not only the forms and colours of their blooms are so beautifully romantic but their perfume is pure heaven. I could stand there for hours and bury my nose in their petals forever...

"Paeonia" (Paeoniaceae)

peony, Pfingstrose

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Snow white Bushes but no Snow...

I love these bushes, covered by tiny white blossoms allover. Each year again they are the signs that spring has definitely arrived. This year they bloomed together with forsythia and thus created lovely compostions in some areas. See here.

Although one could think - if you don't look close - that these bushes are somehow covered by snow - and they sometimes get covered by snow in our region - their scent talks a different language. Bees and other insects love these bushes and their buzzing is somewhat soothing.

"Spiraea" (Rosaceae)
spirea, Spierstrauch

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White Peonies from last Year...

I somehow missed to show you the peonies I photographed last year - they were exceptionally beautiful:

"Paeonia" (Paeoniaceae)
peony, Pfingstrose

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An aristocratic Wall Decor...

I absolutely love these little flowers which form these wonderful colour spots on walls and in rockeries. They glow from the distance and can be found in many variations. They are the little jewels of the garden...

"Phlox douglasii"
creeping phlox, Polsterphlox

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A Rarity: White Magnolia Blossoms

Here is an absolute rarity: white magnolia. I think I slowly know all magnolia trees in Munich (this is nearly a joke) and have visited and photographed them all (of course not) but I have discovered only one magnolia tree with completely white blossoms. Not a magnolia stellata but a "regular" magnolia tree. What a beauty! Unfortunately I could not get closer than this.

I had to shoot blind i.e. I had to hold the camera as high as possible - because there was a high fence between the street and the tree and no possibility to peak through it. I could not see at all what I was doing, not to speak of checking the data. So I am really happy about the results of these snapshots...

"Magnolia x" (Magnoliaceae)

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A Field of Tulips...

I don't know whether you have this opportunity anywhere else than in Germany: the owner of a field grows all kinds of flowers, implements a stand with some sort of cash point which then means you can cut your flowers yourself and then you are expected to pay for the flowers you have cut. There is no-one who really surveys this and sadly enough I doubt that everyone is so honest to really pay for what s/he has taken. But this is another theme.

I love these fields of flowers because you are given the opportunity to walk (carefully) through all these glories, to look at them at short distance and to snap a photo or hundreds of them if you like. No-one will stop you. This is simply heaven. You can indulge in all these colours and forms. After some time your knees and your back begins to hurt - I would say this is regularly the end of the endeavour.

Here only a few of those lovelinesses...

"Tulipa"

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