Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I was walking the dog around the lake when I came across this impressive clematis growing around an otherwise humdrum mailbox. The mailbox was in the shade and the sun was going down in the background. I particularly liked the bright colors of the clematis and the way it frames the mailbox.
There was a sign next to this pot explaining what kind of onion this is. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of the sign or otherwise note down the information. I have a vague memory of it saying that this particular type of onion is native to South Africa (I might not have remembered this correctly though). If I get a chance I’ll stop by, check and update this post.
I liked the round shapes and the smooth and rough textures. I also like the way the onions appear to be in a nest made from the surrounding greenery.
A picture of my wife taken in February, 2009 with a Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D. I think it captures something of her cheerful, effervescent personality.
I think it was the light that appealed to me here – sort of ‘dappled’ with interesting shadows cast on the pots. I also liked the arrangement of the pots – I’d never seen plant pots placed on top of each other in the is way (i.e. with the the bottom pot inverted as a base). Maybe it’s common, but I can’t recall having seen it before.
Something about this mass of mailboxes caught my attention, but I was about to pass it by as too uninteresting when I noticed the small figure to the bottom right. What is it? Why is it there? Unanswered questions for which I’ll never have the answers. To me this added a kind of quirky interest to the scene and made it worth a picture.