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Finally, I get around to weeding my deck herb-box and discover some extremely tenacious chives which have flourished through a year of neglect and a determined invasion by grass. As soon as I see the seed heads, I know I’ll be photographing them. And then I remember my veteran 3 megapixel camera which knocks the socks off my Sony cult camera when it comes to closeups. So I spend five minutes amongst the dew-damp leaves, leaning on the dew-saturated deck railings, to see what I can capture. I can’t even remember how to switch the camera on at first and then I forget to press macro, but eventually I get going. Here are the results: none of them have been post-processed except for a bit of gentle cropping and the black and white conversion which saves a flawed photo. I play around a bit with early light: some photos are taken in my shadow, and the sun rises slowly behind my callistemon as I photograph.
NB I didn’t count remistressing my gear in the five minutes DJ allows for her RegularRandom challenge. Go to her site to see what she and other contributors favoured with their attention this week, especially if you need dessert after a meal of chives.
Lucid Gypsy said:
Seed heads always win with me!
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restlessjo said:
I wish I could see these better, Meg. It’s a tiny photo on my phone. Lovely party last night and a lazy day today. Slightly fragile hugs xxx
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morselsandscraps said:
Thank you for post-party hugs, albeit fragile. I’ll send you back geological ones – that interest was reignited yesterday when I was talking to J about plans for a kink zone beach walk between dentist and bookwag on Wednesday. (Bookwag’s a chinwag about books.)
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Sue said:
Oh, what marvellous seed heads, Meg! Are Australian chives on steroids, they seem larger than life!
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morselsandscraps said:
They aren’t actually all that big – a bit bigger than a euro? My old camera is a champion.
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Sue said:
Oh, OK! So your new camera isn’t up to the job?
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morselsandscraps said:
New as in five years old? No. Or maybe I’m not up to the job as its manager.
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Sue said:
Oh, I should have said newer…. So how old is the old one?
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morselsandscraps said:
Ownership date lost in the mists of time. It was my second digital. Probably more than ten years.
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Sue said:
OK!
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desleyjane said:
These are beautiful close ups Meg. The black and white is gorgeous. I never knew they had seed heads like that.
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morselsandscraps said:
Neither did I! This plant was a monster. J uprooted it on Saturday and had to hack at it madly to seperate it into a clump for him and a clump for me. My old camera is a champion for closeups: I replaced it mainly because it was a bit bulky for travel.
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