Vivid Flower

Friday, February 18th, 2005 | 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.

It's basically an underpowered PC with a fancy interface stuck ontop. So expect it to be slow.²
Enlargments, to 8x10, made from standard prints will look grainy and the colors will be a bit off.
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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