On Jul 20, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On 11-07-20 8:03 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> Not long after I moved into my Michigan house some twenty years ago, I made >> a flagstone path and planted a perennial garden next to it. My philosophy of >> perennial gardening is to crowd it with enough plants so that it never needs >> to be weeded. For the most part it works. Both the path and the garden have >> endured. Tonight I got up on a small stepladder and shot a backlit pic of >> the garden. The red things are bee balm, and they attract the aforementioned >> bees as well as butterflies and hummingbirds. The tall yellow things in the >> back are rocket flowers, but they're curling a bit in the 95 degree F >> temperature. Did I say it was hot? There is some echinacea behind the goose >> weathervane (Former list member, Belinkoff, who was mentioned by Robb >> earlier today, was annoyed that I had a weather vane on the ground. But I >> like it there.) There are some lilies and begonias on the other side of the >> bed, but they're mostly hidden here. > > Beautiful path, Paul. > > >> There's a fountain and bench off to the left, which are out of frame, as >> they must be. since they're in perpetual shade. > > HDR it, dude. :-) > > Less tongue in cheek, how about a remote flash? I was able to brighten up > the side of an entire house with a single AF540 a few weeks ago for a > setting-sun, wide angle kind of shot. > Yes, there are possibilities, but unfortunately they all require some effort on my part. I'd also have to get a taller ladder out of the garage or mount my 12-24 lens-- still more effort. At my age, those kind of things are major life decisions:-). Paul >> >> Paul >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=13806857&size=lg >> >> >> > > > > -- > 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.
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