Capture: Spring Breaks
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
... and lovely examples of the David Hood effect there : ) Here's what happens to the David Hood effect in Auckland.....
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A few more late springs
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Nora, heh. The David Hood effect woul be- set the camera to minimum ISO minimum, minimum F stop, and adjust the shutter speed to match light levels (that was tricky here this lunchtime, my camera only goes to 1/1600 of a second and it was pretty bright). Zoom to x12 (mainly because that is the maximum optical zoom on my camera) and stand a metre and a half to two metres away.
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All from Dunedin Botanic Gardens
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Developing a mild obsession with these three dahlias. Seem almost too perfect.
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Developing a mild obsession with these three dahlias. Seem almost too perfect.
Know that feeling!
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Jos,
Fireworks!
I have dark potatoes, fresh out of the soil, had to be quite careful, they were hard to spot. Then after a wash, revealing their true colours. The boiling water for the small ones turns blue. They all come from a thing that was on a windowsill for months, it grew great growths. -
Lilith __, in reply to
They all come from a thing that was on a windowsill for months, it grew great growths
Soon we'll be overrun with these aliens!
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One from today
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Life imitating art, or….
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
I have dark potatoes, fresh out of the soil
Beauties! You seem to have great light down there in your garden too ; )
Courgette love.
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Jos,
Sad lilly David.
Nora, vegetables don't get any better! And I love your tender vines.
This seems more Autumney, birch leaves and seeds on the back steps...
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Still a few spring like blooms around here
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
This seems more Autumney, birch leaves and seeds on the back steps…
Silver birches are the talk of the town down here...
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Jos,
Quick pick :P
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Nice tomatoes - here's some flowering fennel.
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My wife got this all ready in a jar with water at the supermarket. She was a bit disappointed when the flowers came out pink, she prefers purple, but she’s been excited to watch the flowers slowly opening.
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And in B&W, too.
...and besides, I couldn't leave this thread sitting on 666 responses, could I? That might've led to something devilish appearing.
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From the weekend
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
Like the waterlily through the stalkies : )
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Nora Leggs, in reply to
And glad to see you are branching out to floratography!
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Jos,
Big Tom
Lilly bits
Bean there
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Jos,
A bowl we put the odd dry thing into
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
branching out to floratography!
Well, I’ve dabbled, and posted one or two less unsuccessful dabblings hereabouts, but considering the season that’s about the only thing flowering up this way right now.
And considering how incongruous a sight this photo is – passed it today, and it still trips me out – I’m not sure how much we’ll see flowering as the weather warms. Explanation: Beijing hasn’t had any precipitation since early November, at least. Well, there was one day earlier this month when we had a few microscopic snowflakes floating about – big enough you could feel them hit your face, but only just, and one or two you could actually see, enough that there was a rather breathless post to Weibo to the effect of “Snowflakes sighted at Chaoyang weather station!!!!!”, and I did see photos of a tiny bit of snow on the ground out in Yanqing, but last week or the week before I saw a headline in the newspaper saying “Zero precipitation for 92 days”. December was completely dry and I don’t recall any kind of rain or snow in November.
ETA: Further explanation. The "snow" in that photo is, so far as I can tell, ice scraped out of the freezers of the supermarket whose end wall you can see in the top of the shot - it fell, yes, but from buckets or basins or tubs, not from clouds.
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Flags up for Spring Festival/Chinese New Year. Happy New Year!
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