Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
Usually when I take pictures of “growing things” they’re of the flowers in our garden. I’ve now decided to do a series of pictures of plants growing at the side of the road along the lake. This is the first of the series. I was impressed by the late day sunlight backlighting this green leaf.
At the risk of adding a few more flower pictures, here are a couple of roses in our garden. My wife asked me to take pictures of them. Need I say more…
Taken with a 58mm Carl Zeiss Jena f2 Biotar on a Sony Nex 5n.
I came across this carpet of small yellow flowers in the middle of a commercial zone along North State Road in Briarcliff Manor. I thought the masses of yellow flowers would make a nice picture if I could get down low. Then I noticed this purple flower (I think it’s clover but I’m not sure) and it occurred to me that it would make a nice contrast to the yellow. Bearing in mind lessons-learned from a similar picture (What’s wrong with this picture) I looked around for distracting elements and removed them.
Taken with a Carl Zeiss Jena 58mm f2 Biotar (from it’s serial number dating back to somewhere in the mid 1950s) on a Sony Nex 5N.
I came across this flower growing by the side of Lake Shore Road – I don’t know what it is. I was a bit surprised as it looked like a flower that should be growing in a garden rather than wild by the side of the road.
Every year around this time our younger daughter has to travel on business (she goes to the Cannes Film Festival). She always asks her mother to come over (she lives in Switzerland) to help out with her two small children. So off goes my wife while I stay home and look after the houses and the pets and (most importantly for this post) the gardens. I don’t like gardening much, but I do it because I’m terrified that something important will die and I’ll get blamed for it. Moreover, my responsibilities in this regard have been increasing. First I just had to water the indoor plants (orchids, African violets and the like); then I had to water all of the outside plants too; finally I was tasked with “deadheading” the plants and looking out for caterpillars (they rappel down from our oak trees and wreak have on the roses).
With the advent of modern technology I’m now also expected to send pictures and maybe even videos to prove that I a living up to my responsibilities.
So here are a few flower pictures from the bed down by our dock (with the exception of the rhododendron, which is on our driveway). I’m afraid I only recognize the first one (Lilly of the Valley) and the last one (Rhododendron). I have no idea what the others are.
Rhododendron.