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Photographed in Adelaide Botanic Garden with my phone on a nice spring day walking around parks in Adelaide in South Australia.
Fritillaria meleagris or sanke's head fritillary at Leiden University’s botanic gardens.
The Botanical Garden, established here in 1682 (having been founded in 1638 in another location as an apothecaries' garden), is a medley of color and scent, with some 250,000 flowers and 115,000 plants and trees from 8,000 different varieties. It owes its origins to the treasure trove of tropical plants the Dutch found in their exotic colonies, and its contemporary popularity to the Dutch love affair with flowers. Highlights include are the Semicircle, which reconstructs part of the original 1682 design; the Mexico-California Desert House; the Palm House, home to one of the world's oldest palm trees; and the Tri-Climate House, which displays tropical, subtropical, and desert plants.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 23, 2006. Photo taken with Nikon EM film camera.
A Amsterdam 136
用完了好友餽贈、美國買回的瑰柏翠，可以光明正大用我自己布拉格買的草本皂了。由於買很多，所以我玩一個遊戲，就是把手放進去紙袋內摸出一塊，就用那塊先洗。於是我摸出照片中的這一塊，其實忘了當初的這塊是什麼香皂，我只是把網路列印出來的中文目錄拿去店裡面給臺灣籍的女店員，他們就會幫我挑好好。現在看到英文跟捷克文反而很想去查這是什麼香皂。查了好久，找不到當初網友部落格的目錄，不過我用破爛英文猜，這塊應該是150g大容量的梯型燕麥去角質手工皂吧！一塊換算成台幣四百多，真是超級貴。當初血拼的時候根本沒在看價錢，殊不知這些香皂已經不是八年前我第一次購買的價格了，而我一心一意也只是要湊滿退稅的門檻，要不得。
The Botanical Garden, established here in 1682 (having been founded in 1638 in another location as an apothecaries' garden), is a medley of color and scent, with some 250,000 flowers and 115,000 plants and trees from 8,000 different varieties. It owes its origins to the treasure trove of tropical plants the Dutch found in their exotic colonies, and its contemporary popularity to the Dutch love affair with flowers. Highlights include are the Semicircle, which reconstructs part of the original 1682 design; the Mexico-California Desert House; the Palm House, home to one of the world's oldest palm trees; and the Tri-Climate House, which displays tropical, subtropical, and desert plants.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 23, 2006. Photo taken with Nikon EM film camera.
A Amsterdam 138
I had heard about infrared photographic film. When used in combination with a Hoya R72 infrared filter, it captures all the reflected infrared light that the human eye cannot see. And it made me wonder: Do sclerophyllous gumleaves (Eucalyptus spp., left) reflect as much infrared light as oak leaves (Quercus spp., right)? So I took this shot to find out. And it seems they do.
And now I look at this shot (which looked entirely pleasant in the visible spectrum at 390-750 nm) and consider that it would have looked a whole lot nicer had I just focussed on the oaks. A lesson for next time! Nonetheless, the ghostly white leaves do give an eery appearance to the scene which adds some interest I suppose.
Shot on Rollei IR400 infrared black-and-white film with a Hoya R72 infrared filter.