Playing around with softness has been an interesting experience. My first experiment with increasing softness was by reducing clarity. Al took these photos in RAW, back when RAW was quite new, and quite unknown, especially to me. I actually didn’t … Continue reading Bringing Softness to Photos
The city gardeners have arranged such a variety of flowers in these two tiny gardens that many of them have become favourites, just because of the company they keep. Pink flowers such as Zinnias and Cosmos in the breast cancer … Continue reading Favourite Flower (Gardens)
Moving into an apartment means I no longer have a garden, but lucky me, the city has planted a shade garden just outside the back door. Shade gardens aren’t as breath-taking as ones basking in the sunshine, but if you … Continue reading Walk 50 Steps or Less and Take a Photo
Nature has a thing for pink and green in the plant world… Dieffenbachia in Puerto Vallarta with pink and green markings. Pink waterlilies in a pond at Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden, Mexico. Soft green Bromeliad with pink thorns and markings. … Continue reading Pink and Green in the Plant World
In an effort to present the dichotomy of Vancouver here is another batch of eroded urban objects combined with close-ups of nature. A row of used red concrete forms combined with the first horsetails of spring (36 x 16). Abstract … Continue reading Seeing Double: More Natural/Unnatural Diptychs
This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Bokeh, is run by Sofia Alves of PHOTOGRAPHIAS. To quote Sofia: The term Bokeh was first used to distinguish normal motion blur from the blur obtained when things are out of focus. It literally means … Continue reading Bokeh, Dancing Circles of Light
The Platanus genus is a small group of ancient tree species, commonly called Plane Trees or Sycamores, dating back to the Paleocene period, 66 to 56 million years ago. The bark of the Plane Tree has a distinctive pattern that … Continue reading Studies on the ‘Camouflage’ Bark of the Plane Tree
For days 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of my January 2022 ‘Sketch a Day’ challenge I abandoned the Tanum pond in Sweden and ‘flew’ down to Mexico to see some very different ponds at the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden. … Continue reading Studies of Water in the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden
I saw this sign from a distance as I was driving to the Pacific Spirit Park at the university. “Don’t tell me there’s a cougar roaming the park!” I thought. (Yes occasionally cougars come into Vancouver but usually further east). … Continue reading Pacific Spirit Regional Park
Even before Christmas was invented, the evergreen Holly with its bright red berries was one of the primary plants used in winter celebrations in Europe. Thus red and green, the traditional colours of winter, became associated with Christmas. Gold and … Continue reading The Colours of Christmas: Red & Green
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