Rodger wrote:
>Now that you mention it...
>
>Flower photography is damned difficult!
I agree!
>
>My other hobby (my *real* hobby) is gardening. My garden is a very
>complex one, and the scenes in it change constantly as different
>plants come into and go out of flower. Every so often, just as with
>photography, I luck onto something really nice looking. This spring,
>for example, _Papaver_orientale_ 'Show Girl' was in flower near --
>but not too near -- a nice deep, violet-tinged blue
>_Iris_xiphioides_. The poppy is a bright, clear, warm pink, almost a
>flamingo pink. Against the background matrix of plain ol' green
>plants, the two made a very satisfying colour combination, and a few
>friends got invited over to share the pleasure.
In my experience of the two--photography and gardening--photography, as
difficult as it, is easier. As of yet, snails have not eaten a single one
of my photographs.
I don't know if anyone is interested, but the best book I've found on
flower photography so far is Craig and Nadine Blacklock's "Photographing
Wildflowers: Techniques for Advanced Amateur and Professional" Voyageur
Press (1987). Only 64 pages to it, but it is packed with useful info.
Dan Scott (send us some rain)
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