nature photography

gocce di pioggia come perle / raindrops like pearls

| Simona
DSC_5870 / garden nasturtium after rain

mother nature as jeweller

I am endlessly fascinated by the way raindrops embroider leaves and flowers in my garden, especially nasturtium leaves.

Flowers, young leaves and seedpods of garden nasturtium are edible and I have featured them in some recipes: my Rattlesnake bean salad uses nasturtium-infused vinegar and my roasted cauliflower uses the pickled seedpods.

Preview: a story I wrote about the nasturtium in our garden will appear in the upcoming issue of Remedy Quarterly.

This week, I have the honor of hosting Black and White Wednesday – A Culinary Photography Event created by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook and now organized by Cinzia of Cindystar. Send your contribution at simosite AT mac DOT com, namely

  • your name
  • your blog's name
  • the image(s) (max 500 px wide, either orientation, max 150 kb file size)

You have until Wednesday, July 9 at 9 am Pacific time to do so. If you are unfamiliar with the event or need a reminder of the rules, you will find the details in this post (and in Italian here). Feel free to use the logo below. If you have a photo, but no blog, send it to me and I will include it in the roundup, which will be published on Wednesday, July 9.

Since messages can get lost, please, contact me again if you don't get an answer to your email or a comment on your blog within a couple of days of emailing me.

New bww logoThis is my contribution to edition #137 of Black and White Wednesday – A Culinary Photography Event created by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook, now organized by Cinzia of Cindystar, and hosted this week by me, Simona of briciole.

The photo was shot in color and then converted to black and white (Lightroom preset B&W Look 1).

 

 

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giardino di alghe / seaweed garden

| Simona

DSC_5736 / seaweeds along the Northern California coast

a garden of seaweeds

A particularly low low tide (-1.862 ft / -56.75 cm) turned this Northern California beach into a special garden with many varieties of seaweeds, some of them edible, like kelp, nori, rockweed and sea lettuce. 

I didn’t harvest any seaweed the day I took the photos, but I have in the past and have some at hand for use in the kitchen.

DSC_5738 / seaweeds and seagrass along the Northern California coast

and seagrass

There were also tufts of seagrass. 

Note the interesting shape of the rock on the top left. 

New bww logoThis is my contribution to edition #135 of Black and White Wednesday – A Culinary Photography Event created by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook, now organized by Cinzia of Cindystar, and hosted this week by Sreevalli of Ammaji Recipes.

The photos were shot in color and then converted to black and white (Lightroom preset B&WLook 5).

The gallery of images contributed to the event.

 

creature del giardino / garden critters

| Simona

image from www.flickr.com

I am not the only living creature that loves kale. I focused on the snail and it was only when I looked at the image on the screen that I saw the spider.

Kale grows abundant in my garden, not only in the vegetable portion of it. The plant in the photo grew in a section where in the spring we added some compost from my pile that contained kale seeds. I let the kale grow as it wished, since I was not planning to harvest it. Some garden critters enjoy it as much as we do.

BWWLOGOThis is my contribution to edition #54 of Black and White Wednesday – A Culinary Photography Event created by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook, now organized by Cinzia of Cindystar, and hosted this week by Lynne of Cafe Lynnylu.

This post contains the gallery of images contributed to the event.

The photo was shot in color and then converted to black and white.

On this page, you can find out who is hosting the current and future editions of the event. Preview: the next edition will be hosted here at briciole.