Green plant:
This is a very green plant.
While it appears to be the all-green
Sarracenia purpurea f. heterophylla, it is not. There
is still some red
pigmentation on the leaf bases and a tiny bit of red venation
in some of the leaves. Sometimes you hear this sort of plant referred
to by students of the species as "veinless," because it is
not the all-green form, but is lacking venation.
I took this photograph in bright, full sun, using my shower-curtain
diffuser. I was
the only human present, but I am sure that I must have looked
absurd setting up my diffuser in a wobbly bog,
with grabby shrubs and
a moderate wind complicating the procedure. But the benefits
to the photographs are (to my mind) spectacular:
the shadows are softened, the burnt spots are gone. As a bonus, the
wind was cut way down so I could take long exposures and get that
nice deep depth of field.
If you make a diffuser, do not cement the pvc joins together.
It is better to keep it in pieces, so you can break the diffuser down
and carry it in your airplane luggage.
