Visions and Nature Horsetail plants
Horsetail Plants
by Kristel Schneider
One of my favourite places in Auvergne is the Massif du Cézallier. An open area with lots of different landscapes. There are volcano lakes, little brooks and wetlands. The amount of different wild plants that grow there is enormous.
Driving up to the Cézallier always means new discovery to me. This can be a plant I have never seen or a certain light that appears in front of my eyes because of the fast changing weather conditions.
The last time I was there, the weather was not that great. But along a little lake there were these nice Horsetail plants in bloom.
I decided to spend some time with them and try to get some different angle and background shots. My eyes were constantly pulled towards the white blooming bud with the brown little patches on it, so fantastic to look at.
The wind provided me with the background I wanted, just a little bit of movement to get rid of the static look of the stem. I definitely will go back there to get some more detail shots of the stem and try to get a nice back-light shots, but that is for later.
The images on this page were all taken with a 5DMII Canon body in combination with a 150mm Sigma Macro lens .
Marsh Horsetail
Equisetum palustre
Horsetails (Equisetaceae) are perennial, ornamental plants that grow from creeping rhizomes. They look like miniature bamboos because of their single hollow, jointed stem with bristle-like branches. During prehistoric times, they grew as large trees.
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