Thanks Ken. No flash here. It's window light. Paul via phone
> On Dec 17, 2013, at 7:31 PM, "Ken Waller" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice subject, well composed. I'd like a touch less flash on the center flower > to minimize the shadow. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO At Last! > > >> My daughter bought my wife an orchid for mother's day about five years ago. >> It bloomed for a couple of weeks, then faded. It didn't seem to be doing >> anything for quite some time after that, so I repotted it in a bigger pot >> with some orchid mix soil -- which is more like wood chips than soil. It had >> hardly any root. Nursed it along for a couple of years, and it started to >> grow and send out roots, but it never bloomed. Grace knocked it off the >> table once when she was playing, and it spilled out on the floor. I stuck it >> back in the pot, and again it was dormant for a while but eventually started >> growing new leaves again. Still no blooms. I fertilized it a wee bit now and >> then as directed and watered it sparingly as directed without success. >> Eventually, I threw a handful of Miracle Gro potting soil on top of the wood >> chips and watered it in. That seemed to spur the growth a bit. Last week it >> finally bloomed. It was so long ago that it last bloomed, I had even >> forgotten what color it w as. It's a common variety I'm sure. In fact, it resembles orchids I saw growing in the rain forest on the big island of Hawaii. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17628929&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. -- 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.
