First, apologies to anyone noticed that I was negligent in my duties as blogs. I just checked and it was almost two months since the last post. I honestly do not know it was anywhere near as long. I have not taken many photos recently, at least not very hard to share that is. On the front of writing things seemed to dry up a bit. I started a couple of posts, but they were stale and bored, so I decided not to impose on someone else.
I was very busy with a business rather new, or at least a new twist on an old, and I’ll write about it here the other day and week ahead. This and other work is not an excuse for my absence if – sometimes the good really does run dry and when that happens I think its best to do something else for a while and come back refreshed and more importantly with something new to say.
Photographing Flowers and Gardens
Here are some photographs I took of the garden over the last three days. We are living a kind of drought, and are at this time of year when things start to look a little ragged around the edges, not the usual conditions for photography garden that I know, but it Therein lies the challenge.
We are now in this part of the year when plants begin to wilt and the flowers die back and lose their familiar shapes, colors and textures. Culturally, we are infused with the idea that this state of affairs is not an aesthetic best to not to practice with the camera. Well, my opinion is a little different this time of year is when is when things become unpredictable and all sorts of wonderful shapes and spaces begin to appear. Is that to see with new eyes something new.
Daylilies produce some wonderful opportunities and unpredictable. The trick was to be close and literally forget that they were always flowers, just to see them as really interesting organic forms and in terms of positive and negative space. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth pictures are all daylilies. The top photo is a trumpet vine and the second looks like an anemone. I could be wrong but I prefer the unit to a field guide spotters. Anyway, two of them appeared on the part of the lawn is on an angle of about 45 degrees about six feet away. Over a few days the flower faded from bright red to delicate pink with subtle white spots. Other photographs are from various parts of a hosta, a very dried allium
On a more technical note, all photographs were taken with a Nikon D40x digital SLR using either one of two zoom kit lens and a 10x (which does not make things 10x) was used for some of them. The images were edited using the free software called Shotwell on a computer with Ubuntu on it. The software is pretty basic, but hey – it is not the removal tool place though, as you can tell! I’m going to work a little more about these programs at some point to get rid of some stains. The bright colors are not so much due to over enthusiastic editing to have my camera located over high heat. They were shot at dusk and that adds to the effect.
Here’s the rest of the photos of the garden of the last two days. There are about a hundred in all.
