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First Flowering

Posted at 21:11:47 on Thu, January 24th 2008 by graham
in: d40x deltasarah flower fuschia indoors photography three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

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Three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 23

This is the fuscia that I posted a photo of the other day. It, and another bulb, finally opened last night.

I wish I could have got a better contrast with the background but the sun was shining in through the window at the time. The blue haze is due to condensation on the inside of the glass.

Edited in Gimp to tweak the levels a bit and bring out the blue in the flower. Also cloned out a couple of little mite things that the plant seems to have attracted.

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New Life

Posted at 21:50:37 on Sun, January 13th 2008 by graham
in: d40x deltasarah flower fuschia photography three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008

Graham Binns posted a photo:

Three-hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 12

This might get posted late due to Flickr's issues (having a massage, indeed), but still.

There's a Fuschia on our windowsill. It's the only plant in the house because, in winter, they have a nasty habit of getting too cold and dying, but this one, in discordance with all reason, is thriving, Maybe it's because it's being raised by Sarah, who told me as I was taking this shot "That'll open tomorrow." Whether it does or not, it's the first sign of new life that I've seen this year (well, new in the sense that I didn't see it last year first).

I would have liked to get rid of the twig in the bottom right of the frame, but my gimp-fu failed me and I couldn't get another shot that didn't have a reflection or something else in it that I didn't like. Such is life.

What I do like, however, is the way the light catches the flower. I made a snoot-cum-diffuser from a sheet of paper to soften the effect of the speedlight. Even with a bounce flash it was too harsh. A4 FTW!

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

He has written one novel, which is in the process of composting, and is working remembering how to write before embarking on a second. In the meantime, he photographs things, since it's easier not to have to make the world up in his head all of the time.

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