Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
I finished work, sorted some images, then fell asleep for five hours without meaning to. Clearly I needed the sleep, and now all the images are sorted and posted. There are the normal flowering triffids, and also strawberries. It’s a journey from the plant to ending up in my fruit infuser bottle filled with lemonade. They were delicious.
I’m going back to bed. More strawberry and flower pictures are up on Flickr.
Way more triffids than I thought snuck onto my memory card, so it took a while to sort them. There are more here because there are a whole load more in this batch up on Flickr. Mostly flowers, some cherries that may never get to ripen because the birds will be on them like locusts at the first hint of being edible, and some faded wooden sign shots. The wooden sign was originally made by me about 10 years ago, and was eventually replaced a couple of years ago with a more durable one – it hangs out so delivery drivers can actually see it easily. It was printed letters on wood covered in sealant, so I’m genuinely surprised it lasted as long as it did and the sign is actually legible. The mock orange is a different variety to the previous photos I’ve taken, blooming later. Most notable for being under my bedroom window along with a wisteria (which is really late this year, the photos I’ve taken have all been from the one around the back) and a honeysuckle. Smells amazing at night.
Yesterday was not a good mental health day. I was in a better frame of mind by late afternoon, so took a bunch of triffid photos with the sky as a backdrop, because they please me. I was pretty exhausted by the time I’d got them sorted and up on Flickr (along with a few other random photos), so I opted to go to bed and do the blog post today. There may be another one later on as today I’ve been experimenting with black backgrounds, and I’ve got some regular triffid shots as more new flowers appeared. May be tomorrow if I’m still tired after sorting them all.
I wanted to do something different than the usual flower photography (mainly due to the fact there’s nothing new blooming just yet), so thought I’d try some flowers on a white background in softer light than the death ball in the sky. I’ve got a soft light cube… somewhere. (It’s the shed. It’s in the shed. It may never be seen again, though the preserving pan turned up at the weekend, so it may not be a lost cause.) As it wasn’t accessible, I decided to do some quick and dirty experimentation. I’ve put what I did below the thumbnails with a picture. Different plugin, the other one seems to have been abandoned and there were some annoying caching issues. No extra photos on Flickr as this was a trial and didn’t produce a whole pile of images.
Bunch of photos taken earlier in the week over two days. I’ve been sidetracked with playing Vampyr (I’m halfway through a review post for that, but it’s probably not going to be done tonight) and have only just gotten around to sorting and posting these now. The Flickr plugin seems to work a treat, so I’m sticking with that. Even more triffids to be found on Flickr should that tickle your fancy. Otherwise, enjoy what’s below.
This was the photography post I was planning on making today, before Jake decided to steal the limelight. As usual, there are a few more up on Flickr, though not as many as I’d have limed because the battery ran out. Jake videos use up all the juice, he’s decidedly not cute and is very unhelpful (and it’s totally not that the battery was due a charge anyway *cough*).
Didn’t intend to go this long without a blog post, but last weekend I was enjoying having the house to myself while Dad was in Brighton, and then the past week of work kicked my arse. I spent yesterday in a fog recovering, and I’m not pushing it when my body and brain say it’s too much. So it’s only today I had the energy to do Things, and potter around taking pictures. One advantage of the time gap is that things have moved on again in the garden, so there are different things to take photographs of. There’s a selection of triffids below, and more on Flickr. I’m also on Instagram now, so far posting pictures of Jake, flowers and food. Give me a follow if you want, let me know on Twitter if I know you and it’s not obvious.
I’ll take some photographs of other things at some point. Maybe I should do some photography challenges? Right now it’s Triffids, because they’re rioting in the garden. Seriously. They’re just hiding the pitchforks and flaming torches when I get the camera out. There’s a whole bunch of new photos in my Flickr gallery, and a selection below.
I dusted off the SX600 to put it to photography use in the garden today (technically yesterday, but I haven’t been to bed yet) instead of using my phone. So much more versatile for taking photographs and better quality images. The SX40 has also been cleaned and battery charged for whenever I get around to it. Will have to find somewhere to go to use it.
I also went through the most ‘recent’ (ha! 2013-2017) folders to sort them out at last. I’ve uploaded a bunch of those to Flickr so that’s finally up to date. They include flowers, butterflies, some other wildlife and baby seals. How can you not love baby seals?
If there are interesting things growing in the garden, I’ll dabble in some photography on my work breaks. I’ve been doing this on Twitter recently, but I figure I’ll switch it to here and post a link there. This set of photographs was taken with my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S7. I’m generally impressed given it’s a phone camera, but really should dig out my better Canon cameras. Probably the SX600 HS (the PowerShot SX40 HS is a bit overkill for quick garden snaps). Triffids is just the name my group of friends uses for plant life in general, on the basis you can’t trust them. We’ve all seen Day of the Triffids, we’re not falling for their planty schemes.
Usually I post up to four photos, as that’s the Twitter limit for one post. Today it’s eight pictures, because I happen to really like taking apple blossom pictures so did a set for them.