Probably the last tulip picture for this season. I took this a couple of weeks ago, and now the petals begin to fall off and the leaves begin to wither away..
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rosa
A mix of pink spring flowers growing in people’s gardens.. Photos taken from the street, no trespassing 
curl
f/2.8 – 1/200s – ISO 100 – 60mm
amarillo
A mix of yellow spring flowers, glowing like the sun
turbans
Amsterdam’s blooming with tulips everywhere now! Here’s a picture I took in a busy crossing on my way home from work
Quote from Wikipedia: The word tulip, which earlier appeared in English in forms such as tulipa or tulipant, entered the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend (“muslin” or “gauze”), and is ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband (“Turban”), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban.
alba
I keep Lamprocapnos spectabilis Alba flowers on my balcony, and right now they’re in full bloom. Love spring! 
A.k.a. Old-fashioned bleeding-heart, Venus’s car, Lady in a bath, Dutchman’s trousers or Lyre-flower.
snowflake
I can’t recall ever seen one of these before, but perhaps that’s due to the fact that I didn’t pay much attention before I started photographing.. I thought it was a kind of tall snowdrop, but after some research I found it’s called a Spring Snowflake. (Or maybe a Summer snowflake, I don’t know how to tell them apart.)
f/2.8 – 1/640 – ISO 100 – 60mm
ordinary
I wanted to capture birds in flight. Herons are a bit slow so I thought they’d be good to practice on. I sat by the pond and waited, but the herons didn’t feel like flying, they just sat there and stared back at me. For hours. Then, just when I’d decided to give up and head back home, a little Black-headed gull came and made several sweeps around the pond. So simple, so ordinary, so cooperative. 
Happy weekend everyone!
f/8 – 1/500s – ISO 100 – 80mm
tuft
Male Tufted duck
