Mark
Home gardener & plant fetishist
Berkeley, California, USA
19 Apr '08 9:26 am "you must all try to see the garden as it exists in my head..." I believe there may be a photoshop setting for that. If you find it let me know too. It's interesting how that one photo "Playing with fire" doesn't look noticably touched up until you blow it up - even though it has the look of a finger-painting at close range.
You'll have to bear with my scarce presence a while more. The line for my computer's internet connection needs replacing and I haven't yet done it.
Happy Fall!
jack two
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Sunday morning
20 Apr '08 8:24 pm A perfect autumn day. I went out at eight with my camera - the old Minolta which I prefer to the (broken)Canon, even if it is a much inferior camera. Here are the results...
An accidental exposure with the camera moving, there were wonderfully coloured diagonal stripes on the quite abstract original. I then cross-hatched in the opposite direction on photoshop, and got this moire-like effect.
21 Apr '08 6:03 pm Yippee! A flax! Jack, I'm sure you've either painted lipstick all over your dogwood or your finger got stuck on a certain saturation button in photoshop. What a colour! I can't match it - not yet, hee hee. Yippee for Dogwoods, too.
gbronner
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21 Apr '08 8:35 pm Spring and fall are my two favorite times of the year. Thanks for posting such wonderful fall pictures.I always thought it would be great to be able to travel from spring to fall and from fall to spring blocking out the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter. I guess then though I would not appreciate the beauty as much. Wonderful shots enjoy your great fall weather.
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Thanks!
21 Apr '08 9:52 pm Nice to see you around again, Glenn -haven't heard from you in ages! How about some news? (Or have I just missed it )
Moosey - I did follow your suggestions on the saturation button - but not to the point where it was obviously fake; the reds of the same dogwood in the next pic, with the bridge in the background, are pretty much what you would see. In fact I think I did more removal of light/dark contrast than anything else.
MacFlax
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Canberra, Australia
21 Apr '08 10:37 pm Beautiful photos. I love your dog.
Your yard is looking wonderful. Deborah and I just looked through all your resent pix. Real nice fall scenes. Your dog is a cutie, too.
Christopher
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The merry month of May
2 May '08 10:39 pm Hi All!
Late yesterday afternoon I returned from 3 nights in the Kruger Park (see my Garden Tours entry to follow ASAP!)and as I turned down to my house the late afternoon sun painted the trees at the dam - the liquodambers and the big Japanese maple - and I thought, like so often before, no-one will believe those colours are real!
The law of cussedness arranged for today to be cloudy (and cool and rather windy), but it does allow me to show you the colour completely untouched after being photographed in unfavourable conditions. That's the first pic, and even in this light it doesn't begin to do justice to what one sees. The others I've done my best to share the intensity with you. Enjoy.
Faith S
Perpetually learning gardener
Alabama, USA
Autumn Color
3 May '08 4:30 am Hello again Jack,
Again your photographs of autumn color in your trees are stunning. I do understand your frustration with trying to capture what the eye really sees. I so often look at my gardens and think how beautiful the colors are and how amazing the combinations of nature can be, but then when I try to photograph them, the colors never look as good and the details I can see with my naked eye just don't translate to the digital image. Part of that is probably due to the limits of my camera, but I think lots is due to the limits of my skills as a digital photographer.
Even if the colors don't live up to what you see, they are still so beautiful and I love seeing them.
3 May '08 6:07 am It's so interesting that you get so many colors next to each other. Here the leaves turn yellow. So one by one the big maples that cover the city all turn yellow one at a time, then brown parts appear then they fall. I only see the occasional orange or red tree and it's always an event to see one.
Perhaps it's because you have such a variety of trees?
Anyway, they look spectacular! Thanks for posting the pix.
Christopher
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