Pages Tagged “flowers”
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- Depth of Field: Real and Simulated
Four versions of the same photo. One taken with my phone, which has a deep depth of field. One automatically “enhanced” by Google from that phone photo. One taken with my phone in portrait mode, which simulates a shallow depth of field. One taken with my ancient film SLR camera, with a low F-stop to […]
- Return to Temporary Wetlands
Photos: The rains have been tapering off, and the ponds that filled the empty lot have been shrinking, giving way to grasses and wildflowers.
- Affluent Flowers
When I first spotted this sign, I just couldn’t believe the name of the florist at the bottom. Okay, I’m sure people with more money send more flowers, but it seems a little tactless to point it out in the shop’s name. Of course, it is Irvine…
- Butterfly
Experimenting with the macro setting on my camera: I cut across a vacant lot on my way to lunch last Friday. Most of it is just dirt and flattened stalks of of dry grass, but there are some plants that have sprung up since it was last mowed (probably sometime in spring) or have managed […]
- Fuchsia Zoom
Last summer we bought a fuchsia to hang above our balcony. It bloomed for months, then seemed to die over the winter. Living in southern California, the idea of a plant that actually goes dormant in winter is a bit of a foreign concept, but we figured, well, just in case, let’s keep watering it. […]