Musings

I didn’t even try to portrait these apple blossoms; too irregular.

This bloom, however, is perfect: round. I don’t know what it is called; I’m calling pretty purple not-poppy.

Tried to portrait this decorative cabbage. Nope. I guess the flopping leaves sufficiently de-round it and the algorithm rejects it as a face.

People okay. Pets okay—cats anyway. I have it from a roving reported that goat-faces are not accepted for portraitizing, although I have not yet performed that particular experiment.

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While out for my walk, I experimented with portrait mode on flowers again.

Also shot old school.

Night light fun: computational photo. I’m pretty sure the metal steps are painted black. The red came from fancy-SUV taillights, but the blue is a mystery to me.

Before I walked, I encountered a quote from Autumn de Wilde, director of the very recently released movie “Emma,” Jane Austin retold. She told the New Yorker/Sarah Larson that for the decor of Emma’s home: “I wanted it to be like a pastry shop. I told my departments, ‘The colors need to feel edible.'” I wondered what the most edible colors are. She went, the article says with a pink and green combo. Hmm. Depends on the food, but the flower and the lichen-on-brick seem to offer workable shades—the staircase not so much.

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I’m hypothesizing that because today was rather gloomy (despite several shy outbreaks of sunshine), I was drawn to hyper-colorful visuals.

Chocolate bunny display at Tar-zhay.

Wee blue flowers (ground cover?) I can’t remember.

Camellia. Portraited.

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Bark. Crepe myrtle, I think (wait! I know this! Spacey brain right at the moment). Rotated 90° because I thought it would look better in this presentation; maybe it just looks strange.

Nandina berries, portrait mode.

Daffy trio, portraited. [Tentatively voting for making “portrait” a verb.]

Posted at 7:48 PM | Comments Off on Fun with photography

I experimented with portrait mode today, using flowers as subjects. And a bee.

Twins.

Ruby camellia. Didn’t work as well with the nearby vegetation.

This one didn’t work either, with the wood-chip background so close, but you get an idea what the programming is optimized to do. Ugly, and I’m a fan of evergreens.

Posted at 7:13 PM | Comments Off on Portraits

Hanging out. (The bee.)

Hanging on. (The leaves.)

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Wet wet and more rain. In January we got almost twice as much rainfall as the historic average. I’m guessing similar excess in February, but can’t find this month’s data…. Puddles reformed and drained several times today.

I’m still collecting the water when I wait for the hot water to get to the shower head, every time. I started this when we had a serious drought, was it fifteen years ago? No drought now!

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Harbinger of spring.

Persistent winter evidence.

Mardi Gras dragon. Wha?

Empty (large) lock at Ballard; maintenance underway. Deep!

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Overgrown carriageway, now a footpath. In hilltop park.

Beach framed by the Olympics. Different park.

Oops. Not in a park. Too gorgeous not to include….

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Catkins?

Roots. Moss. Needles. Duff.

Blue, blue sky. Some puffy clouds.

Another primary color. Additive? Subtractive? TMI regarding color wheels?

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