Backlog of photography, batch one

Green and pink coleus leaf.

I’ve been quiet, but I have been taking photos over the past week (the furthest they go back is the 7th), I just haven’t started to sort through them until this weekend. It’s actually been a bit of a chore, because I had over 200 to winnow down, and I’ve still got 60 to do a final sort through and upload (it’ll be less than that, but not much less, just removing pics that have a glaring fault I only notice as I go in to crop). The heat is making me very sluggish, and my lethargy is not helped by the fact I took my meds last night and discovered I’d somehow missed two days of pills. I could have sworn I’d taken them, but evidently not. I decided the sanest thing to do would be batches over a couple of days, so this is batch one, and there will probably be two more.

To add to the meh, I did the watermelon shots and I’m not entirely happy. Most of them got ditched, the lighting was generally crappy, and I basically had way more fun eating the thing than taking photos. I may or may not try again at a later date. As always, there are more up on Flickr.

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Photography of… Triffids. Of course.

Tulips.

I’ll take some photographs of other things at some point. Maybe I should do some photography challenges? Right now it’s Triffids, because they’re rioting in the garden. Seriously. They’re just hiding the pitchforks and flaming torches when I get the camera out. There’s a whole bunch of new photos in my Flickr gallery, and a selection below.

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Triffid photography with the SX600

Pink Aquilegia (Columbine)

I dusted off the SX600 to put it to photography use in the garden today (technically yesterday, but I haven’t been to bed yet) instead of using my phone. So much more versatile for taking photographs and better quality images. The SX40 has also been cleaned and battery charged for whenever I get around to it. Will have to find somewhere to go to use it.

I also went through the most ‘recent’ (ha! 2013-2017) folders to sort them out at last. I’ve uploaded a bunch of those to Flickr so that’s finally up to date. They include flowers, butterflies, some other wildlife and baby seals. How can you not love baby seals?

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Photography of Triffids in the garden

Apple blossom.

If there are interesting things growing in the garden, I’ll dabble in some photography on my work breaks. I’ve been doing this on Twitter recently, but I figure I’ll switch it to here and post a link there. This set of photographs was taken with my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S7. I’m generally impressed given it’s a phone camera, but really should dig out my better Canon cameras. Probably the SX600 HS (the PowerShot SX40 HS is a bit overkill for quick garden snaps). Triffids is just the name my group of friends uses for plant life in general, on the basis you can’t trust them. We’ve all seen Day of the Triffids, we’re not falling for their planty schemes.

Usually I post up to four photos, as that’s the Twitter limit for one post. Today it’s eight pictures, because I happen to really like taking apple blossom pictures so did a set for them.

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