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The elk horns are the ones with strappy leaves: the staghorns with the rounded leaves. The spectacle of them combined demanded to be photographed – not once, but three times, with three different cameras, 5 minutes each. Each photo shoot yielded something different, the best being from my old camera, partly because it’s a miracle worker with close ups, and partly I suspect because the other sessions had trained my eye to notice more and more details, confirming my conviction that you photograph best what is most familiar. I’m a bit disappointed with the quality of the photos, but not with what they show.
My Sony cyber shot cult camera
My iPhone 4
My old 3 megapixel Konica Minolta
This post is inspired by DesleyJane’s irresistible RegularRandom challenge. This week she lavishes her 5 minutes on the perfection of flowers. I needed her skill to pay homage to my subject.
They look surreal don’t they? A great subject with any of your cameras!
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Offspring! π π In your element, Meg, and I absolutely love this. So touchy feely!
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The Sony ones have the best colour/contrast/light I think and I like the textures of the last collage. It would help with the identification if they were on separate trees π
(Sorry to hear you have been feeling tired and glad you are improving).
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I thought it was all part of one plant – if plant they be. I suspect I’d be in trouble if I pulled them apart!
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Sorry to hear your weren’t well. I like the curious forms your close ups reveal.
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Seems to be mandatory on holidays – and I only mentioned it to point up my subsequent friskiness and excuse excess!
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Interesting set, Meg…and I do like the close-up textures with your old camera! Reading your response to Desleyjane, I was sorry to hear of your fatigue days, but glad you are frisky again! You ha ve been doing quite a lot recently, it seems
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I quite like the first set. There’s a little fuzzy growth under one of the leaves. I had no idea of the difference between the two “x-horns”. I like the idea of three separate 5-minute shoots π
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My son took me to task, twice, for lumping the whole lot under “staghorn.” I was a bit excited to be out photographing: I’d had two days in bed with old-age fatigue or something, and it was so good to feel frisky again!
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Oh no! Well I’m glad you’re feeling better now.
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