On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:01 -0400, "paul stenquist" <[email protected]> wrote: > Fascinating plants. Well exposed and nicely rendered with great color. > But I have to wonder if you might gain something by departing from the > full vertical here and there. On the other hand, perhaps you were > striving for a uniform presentation. That's how it would be done for a > plant guide, and your accompanying message suggests that you are > approaching this from a botanical point of view. In any case, I found the > gallery interesting. > > I believe I shot one of these in Pasadena, California's Huntington > Gardens some years ago. I'll take a look tomorrow.
Thanks, Paul Yes, most were photographed to illustrate the plants for a column I used to write for a horticultural magazine and for the website I maintain for a horticultural society - so they are fairly 'traditional' in style. I'll need to investigate other options. I think Huntington grows some and I know the arboretum of the University of California at Santa Cruz has a good collection of Australian plants (http://arboretum.ucsc.edu/). Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > On Sep 13, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > > > G'day all > > > > If plant photos bore you to tears, then please look no further.... > > > > Banksias are a group of Australian plants - in fact they are my > > favourite Australian plants. A Banksia would have been Australia's > > national flower had I been making the decision. But I wasn't asked. > > > > Anyway... > > > > I've been photographing Banksias since the mid 1970s so I thought a > > small gallery was overdue. Most are from the digital era - you'll be > > able to pick the scanned ones because they tend to be a bit soft. > > > > Why a 'battery' of bansias? Collective nouns such as "Bunch" and > > "Bouquet" are simply too insipid for such a dramatic group of plants. > > Hope you enjoy: > > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/Banksias/index.html > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
