Succulent Frost
More pictures from the patio. On the weekend there was a heavy frost on the succulents. Frost seems to be a wordpress photo theme – hardly surprising since so many of us in the northern hemisphere are blogging about our surroundings as they start to freeze. A nice simple post today. Not too many words. Hey Jaunita – do you think these would make a good side dish for your oak leaf, perhaps followed by a trip to the dentist?
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All taken with SMC Takumar 100mm f4.0 macro screw mount (m42) lens on a Canon EOS 5D MkII.
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I love succulents but have never seen them covered in frost before. I like the colours, shapes and textures here very much.
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Hello Eyeball – welcome to my blog, its great to have you here. I really like your photographs – they are like paintings in many ways.
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WOW, what a great set here my friend!! Isn’t is just amazing how beautiful Mother Nature can be with her paintbrush of frost. I really enjoyed this post here today, thanks for sharing!
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Hi Toad – glad to see you back. I love your words, nature is so artistic about these things. A big inspiration for so many of us.
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I love the rich and subtle colors that you have captured, as well as the details. The frost is just the icing on the cake!
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Lynn – welcome to my blog, I am very happy to have you here. I just looked at your blog and listened to some of your music. Wow! What a wonderful combination of music and garden and other images.
Frosting is such a perfect word – I wish I had thought of it for my title.
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Oh My 🙂 These are just lovely and we all know that I love frost!!!!!! Wonderful eye, wonderful post, wonderful photo’s!!
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Annnnnd I am on my way to the dentist!!!! 🙂 A perfect side!!!! I can’t stop looking 🙂
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Hey Juanita, I hoped you would drop by. Sure am glad you left some for the rest of us.
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I really like the 6th image (2nd from the bottom), it’s the combination of your composition and low PoV. Thank you for sharing.
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Hi David, thanks for coming by, and your vote. That picture also has the very nice terracotta corner of colour which goes very well with the leaf colours.
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Here in Alabama, condensation in the camera is a problem in the summer and in the winter. I miss lots of sunrises because the camera fogs up when I take it outside on cold mornings when it is warm in the house. Summer at the beach is the reverse problem–cold in the house and HOT outside. If I put the camera in a ziploc bag and leave it outside for awhile, it helps. I’m very impatient, though.
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That sounds like a real pain. Maybe someone else reading this has some advice that would be helpful. I wonder if it would help if you could store your camera in a sealed bag with one or two of those silicone packs that absorb moisture. The problem is the change in temperature – if there was some way you could store the camera at outdoor temperature that might help too. Would it be a bad idea to store the camera in a sealed bag in the fridge, if it is not too cold in relative to the outside temperature? I have no idea, but someone might.
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Great frost series (or is it a succulent series?).Those Pentax lenses are really nice for this type of work.
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Hi ken, glad to you see back after my rant in response to your comment yesterday ;). I am glad you like the way these lenses perform – I am constantly pleased to be using them again, especially that macro. In much younger days for it and me it was a reliable and useful companion on some great field projects all over British Columbia and in other places too.
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I love the frost! We rarely get thick frost like that because our humidity is lower than yours and once everything freezes up, the “frost season” is gone.
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Hi Doug, that is a shame really, but you do get some really great ice patterns and similar that we almost never get here. I will try not to tease you with a frost picture in, say, January. No promises however about the snow drop blossoms which come out around or just after Christmas.
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A great set of images! I especially love the mysterious feeling that the tones and textures in the second image give me.
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Hi xinapray – I am drawn back to that image as well, I dithered about leading with that one since I like to put the one the I like best first, but sometimes it does not work out that way, or I can’t really decide. What I like about the first one is the backl it pink plant in the upper left and the way it draws the eye. But the second one is overall a more pleasing image I think. Right now anyway.
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I love these photos! How do you keep your camera from fogging up when you go outside?
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Hi BisonWoman – welcome to my blog, its always a pleasure to have new readers. Around here I don’t seem to have to worry about fogging. The only time I have had a serious problem was a few years ago when I was working in a cave in the summer – it was cold and wet in there and the equipment did not like going back and forth to a warm and quite humid outdoors. Some of the cameras we just ended up keeping in the cave at that temperature (in watertight cases) which helped a lot. Not a practical solution in most instances though.
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