A collage of Grass Pink from the bog at Laudholm Farms

Grass Pink certainly got shortchanged by the naming department! This little bog orchid, which I found growing in abundance along with the more common Pink Pagonia, in the tiny section of bog at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm Farm, should be called Purple Pulpit Flower, or Yellow Bearded Purple Bog Orchid, or certainly something much more grand than “Grass Pink” . I mean! Look at it! Anyone passing out names should be impressed. I certainly am. Bad day in the naming department, is all I have to say!

Again this panel is a mix of telephoto macros at the long end of the 600mm equivalent zoom on my Olympus OM-D E-M10, and true macros with the ZEISS Touit 50mm macro on the Sony NEX 5T. There is indeed, some variation in the purple/pink color of the blooms. A volunteer at the Reserve, who we happened to meet on the bog boardwalk, suggested that it had to do with how long the blossom had been out. She speculated that they fade in the sun. Could be. We saw a few that were definitely pink…but most were shades of purple.

As above: Olympus OM-D E-M10 with 75-300mm zoom and Sony NEX 5T with ZEISS Touit 50mm f2.8 macro. Processed in Snapseed on my tablet. Panel assembled in Pixlr Express.