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Vivid Flower

Posted by Mark | Filed under Art

Recently, I was going through some of my old pho­tos and ran back across this one. I rather liked it, so I decided to toss it up here on my site. That I actu­ally like this photo is a bit of an odd­ity as I do not usu­ally care all that much for reds or other bright, vivid col­ors like this. Still, the extreme closeup¹, the lines (veins?) on the petals and the pink bits so bright they’re almost sil­ver run­ning across the top of the folds in the petals just really work for me. *shrug* Go figure.

Oh and as long as I’m talk­ing about pho­tos today; I should men­tion my expe­ri­ence with a Kodak Pic­ture Machine. These are those sta­tions you see in gro­cery stores and Wal-Marts to make enlarge­ments or what­ever from either prints you already have or directly from the dig­i­tal media that your cam­era uses. There are a cou­ple of things to keep in mind about these things.

1. It’s basi­cally an under­pow­ered PC with a fancy inter­face stuck ontop. So expect it to be slow.²
2. Enlarg­ments, to 8x10, made from stan­dard prints will look grainy and the col­ors will be a bit off.
3. When plan­ning to use the machine, make sure you leave your­self plenty of extra time in case some­body else is using it already. I stood behind another cus­tomer for prob­a­bly 20 min­utes or so before I could get up to the machine to use it myself. Oh, how I wish I’d had my iPod on me dur­ing that wait!

¹ It’s a pretty extreme closeup for my dig­i­tal cam­era, though oth­ers do have a bet­ter macro mode and could get in closer.
² To be fair, it’s prob­a­bly not that slow but hav­ing to stand there while it does its thing makes it seem extremely slow.

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