I gave Mary a quick lesson in using a real camera this morning. She took a few shots of the flowers she has growing outside our back door.
Tell her she did a good job!
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Beautiful! Hurrah for springtime in Minnesota, as cultivated by Mary.
Great photos!
Are you SURE that lower photo isn’t really a spider with a cunning flower disguise? Seems kinda “spidery”, y’know.
PZ, you don’t have to ask us. Mary’s photos speak for themselves. Nicely framed, good eye for composition, of course she did a great job.
The close-up is very nice. Good framing and depth of field is spot on.
The lower specimen looks like a carnivorous alien thing. Maybe from the film Predators.
Way to go Mary!
@ Snarki, Birgerjohansson: It’s a Triffid.
Good photos of lovely cheerful flowers.
I told you ;-)
Nice! Fleabanes and the flat pods of a mustard above, below is salsify/goat’s beard (Tragopogon dubius for you Latin fans).
Absolutely fantastic! And I mean that without any exaggeration.
When may we see the next batch?
She both did good, and did very well. Thanks Mary!
(you too, PZ…)
C’mon man. Who’re you kidding? You know it’s never going to compete with the inside of the compost bin.
In focus. Check. Scene centered? Check. Pleasant subject matter. Check.
Technically a good photo… the best kind of good.
Very nice work! Great job, Ms. Myers! I think flowers make a great photography subject. They appear in a variety of colors, sizes, shapes and textures, and they stay still (as long as it isn’t too windy). Plus occasionally and interesting arthropod will come along to add additional interest to the composition.
@ ^ tedw : There’s some plants that do not stay very still – wind or not – eg Venus flytraps as seen here (2 mins 50 secs) and Mimosa pudica the Sensitive Plant YT SHORT and of course they do move and even seem to react dramatically albeit on a much slower scale than ours best seen in time lapses like the vicious water lilies here (3 mins 31 secs) but generally yeah.
Yes, excellent photos, thanks Mary – & thanks #9 siwuloki for the species IDs there too. .
Nice photo of a salsify flower, a “weedy” plant I am always pulling and digging out of my yard. If their roots got bigger, I’d eat them, but they are never large enough to bother with. Meanwhile, they will overpopulate your area if you let them go to seed. They have a huge puff-ball of seeds, a cartoon of a dandylion, which it is.
There aren’t any spiders, zebrafish, flying spiders, or octopods in these photos.
Mary has quite the eye for photography