Plum Blossom
I took these shots two weekends ago, but had forgotten them somehow, with house guests and all that. They are close-ups, at about 3X magnification, of a flowering plum blossom brought inside from a tree in the front yard. Other than very early blossoms, the most notable thing about this tree is the way it brushes past the face of passengers leaving our car in the driveway – kind of nice when blooming, kind of annoying when full of rain.
I like these high-key photos and really should try to take more of them. Not to mention high magnification macros, and abstracts. Last year I photographed petals from this same tree using a high magnification macro lens – they very different pictures than these ones. Sharper and much more precise.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon FD 50mm f3.5 Macro Lens, Canon FL Bellows, Canon Life Size Adapter, ISO100, 1/60th, ~f8.
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These would make good backgrounds in a communal space or on a big computer screen. (Apple could use them for OS 11 in the event they go with flower names like osmanthus, geranium and chrysanthemum.)
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James, I am sure Apple is going for Osmathus as a name for OS11 – how could they not? And they are welcome to use these images, for a fee.
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$1 billion would do just fine. Knowing them, they’d then file a lawsuit against everybody who grows plums.
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They could have the exclusive rights to all the photos I have taken to date for that kind of money.
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That might work well, actually. You’d work anonymously under Apple with a salary all the free equipment you need to continue doing great work! 🙂
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Ehpem, you always challenge me to see the world in a new way.
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Thanks Lynn! What a nice thing to say 🙂
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I love this! It’s my new desktop photo.
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Hey littleislander – that’s great! Glad you like it 🙂
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These have a nice painterly feeling.
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Thank you Melinda – that is a good thing!
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BTW, I just added a link in the post to last year’s macro shot of a petal from this same tree.
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Headed that way now…!
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I notice that I had the good sense to like last year’s post! Those really are amazing shots!
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I find it hard to believe we have been hanging around each other’s blogs for about a year now. It seems much less.
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I like these photos, too. They’re well done and the subject matter is beautiful. We don’t have any blossoms on trees yet, so it’s nice to see these.
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Thank you Ken. We have had blossoms on a few of the early plum and cherry trees in the past 3 weeks or so. I never know how to photograph them, but find that getting in close works for them.
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What interesting pictures.
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Thank you Val!
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