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  • Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

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    fabulous stuff

    Indeed!
    Back to basics…..
    Autumn light

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Autumn balcony views north.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Indeed!!
    Back to basics…..
    Autumn light

    and yellow fruitfulness -

    Cape gooseberries on my kitchen sink-bench (have I mentioned my house was built in the late 1970s?). I expected to fit six together in this circle, but by their angles they insisted on five.

    Nicely matching the five-fold division of the flower and calyx.
    That's not a gardener's hand! They grow happily without my assistance, and I'm happy to hunt and gather them. Only once has there been enough at one time for a pot of wonderful jam.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

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    An earlier attempt at holding a Cape gooseberry open to the window-light.

    And detail, showing the obvious spots as on the surface of the sun. Sun-spots? or fly-spots. Larger spot at far left looks mighty suspicious – reckon those spots might be mite-spots.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to ChrisW,

    Larger spot at far left looks mighty suspicious – reckon those spots might be mite-spots.

    Dangers of close up photography! Imperfection revealed. Very pretty gooseberries.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    I went out especially to look for autumn pics in Albert Park in the rain. Albert Park was swarming with people for a legalise-it day (is that like legalise information technology?).

    There were nearby footpath pics….
    I wanted closeups of the creeper on the Northern Club, but there was a downpour.
    But I found trees in the rain looking pretty good.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Oh, and I found Autumn leaf attracted to iron leaf-like.

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW, in reply to Nora Leggs,

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    Autumn leaf attracted to iron leaf-like.

    Lovely. I'd never thought of poplar leaves as square before - it seems to have the NW quadrant well covered.

    Another, earlier autumnal poplar leaf interrupted on its fall, by a she-oak/Casuarina in dry March conditions. Among all the angles, it may well be similarly square.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW, in reply to Nora Leggs,

    Larger spot at far left looks mighty suspicious – reckon those spots might be mite-spots.
    Dangers of close up photography!

    I'd eaten at least half the evidence before looking at the photo enlarged on screen, but further investigation on similar unopened fruits with a 10x hand-lens revealed the occasional six-legged spot ...

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to ChrisW,

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    Another, earlier autumnal poplar leaf interrupted on its fall, by a she-oak/Casuarina

    Nice too.... I wasn't going to post this one, but seeing we are snapping interloping plants....
    Camellia and yew?

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

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    There was some real sun here this morning as I tended my exensive kitchen garden.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

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    And a few light showers. Ongoing warmth and the onset of rain lately seem to have indicated 'Spring!' to this Nasturtium.

    "A word in your ear?"
    (Or just a passerby, heading off to chew the ear of some juicy mint leaves.)

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • Jos,

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    Must take hours keeping that under control Chris, is it a potato sproutling?

    I found myself in Te Puke this afternoon, stopped at the garden centre, then went back to car for camera. I was looking for good textures to use in the blended photos I've been playing with.

    Front door
    bit of wall
    ground

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report Reply

  • Jos,

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    more walls


    am I boring you?

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

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    Boring? If so, then no doubt you can liven them up with some monsters :-)

    The sproutling is a cutting from a plant I have in a pot (photo'd November) that I've grown from a cutting from a shrub in my mother's old garden. I'm to return a new one in a pot for her, a sentimental favourite. It's Iboza = Tetradenia riparia from southern Africa, attractive foliage with soft textured heart-shaped leaves and sprays of mauve flowers in July.
    I'd thought this cutting was a failure after no action for 5 weeks, so now that green sprouts are emerging, all the stronger the urge to take a baby photo to send to its great grandma.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

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    At the old cemetery on Anzac Day – colourful depths in Liquidambar foliage.

    Or, focusing more on the individuals rather than the collective – depths of colour in Liquidambar leaves.

    To the fallen.
    Both scattered and swept into drifts by the wind, shadowed in matching pattern by the surviving Liquidambar foliage.

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Jos’s walls look like my water :)

    Water on the deck

    Raindrop

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Back with the rain…

    Through the window with RB in reflection (or David Slack)
    More rain
    Pool of rain

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Prickles and Pongas

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

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    Pongas and prickles by moonlight,
    with shrooms.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Jos,

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    all lovely, I very like the rain ones.


    A blend using a couple of the wall pics and an old optician's thing

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report Reply

  • JacksonP,

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    Easy to get caught up in this.

    For those interested, with Photoshop or Gimp, create two images of equal size and paste one on top of the other.

    In Photoshop; Option, click on the layer (on a Mac) and choose ‘Difference’. On Gimp, you click above the Layers and select Difference again.

    I just found this the other day, after Jos got started. Fairly low-fi blending, but seems to work, at least for me.

    With thanks, and/or apologies, to The Cut Collective, for the overlay image.

    Rainy day pursuits. ;-)

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs, in reply to JacksonP,

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    Fairly low-fi blending, but seems to work

    thanks Jackson, I'll investigate......

    meantime
    like a visual ear worm, suddenly norfolk pines are just everywhere, rainy autumn sky gives it a bit of added drama....

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Nora Leggs,

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    Looks like it will take a lot of mucking around to find out how to merge pictures in my version of PS.

    I could have applied a lot of really silly effects to the cat, didn't think she'd appreciate it, so just a simple one....

    Auckland • Since Dec 2011 • 2700 posts Report Reply

  • Jos,

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    It's fun to play!
    some from the garden this afternoon

    water in fennel

    fanny on fennel

    water on brassica

    Whakatane • Since Jan 2012 • 877 posts Report Reply

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