~ Daisy a day ~
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"It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought".
James Douglas
Blue-eyed daisy in a bed of flowers of Gramado
KP Treat This 268: Friday 5 March ~ Thursday 11 March 2021
Thanks to abstractartangel77 for these fractal source images
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maybe i should have bought this bag??
am not sure if this was from a painting or a picture but it translates nicely onto a black background :)
just because
Daisy outfit : *LuLu* Daisy, inlcuding hat and shoes. At Fantasy Faire 24
Head : Lelutka - EvoX AVALON 3.1
Hair : [^.^Ayashi^.^] Katori hair.
Skin : [Glam Affair] Sammy [Lelutka EvoX] Blush B; At C88.
Tattoo : [n.a.p] Leaves Embrace - Tintable. At Fantasy Faire 24.
Decor :
LORE Fae Lantern
Raindale - Aprilwisp flowers and water leaves. At Fantasy Faire 24.
Serenity Style- Magical Forest Refuge. In main store.
[PR] Puking Rainbows - Flying Butterflies Cosmo - Single. At WLRP.
Konoha - Iris valarie
Konoha : Whitlock's Asters
Spent the afternoon (Friday) in two gardens, shooting early flowers and early insects. Successful outing.
Thoughts on the Nikkor 200mm Micro (macro) lens:
The lens is VERY sharp. Hit critical focus and enlarging is a joy. But there's the rub. The 200mm micro lens has a surprisingly long minimum focusing distance (1:1). Intentionally. It is a stand off macro lens, so that the camera doesn't get right on top of anything that might shy away.
MFD is 1.6'...just a tad over 19". When one is trying to shoot an extreme close-up, everything in one's brain is trying to push the camera CLOSER to the subject. Human nature...at least mine.
Because of this, one MUST pay complete attention to the 'in focus' dot indicator. Too close...to bad. Further, we all know that the longer the focal length of any lens, the more the slightest wiggle at the end of the lens will impact the shot.
Handholding this juggernaut lens is a fun challenge. Making sure to set up far enough away so that the camera is at least at MFD is another. Too far, though, and 1:1 goes away.
My guess is that this lens, mounted on a big heavy full frame sensor camera, is ideal on a tripod; I'll use it that way sometimes...later on. Now I'm going to master the distance challenge.
I guess that this photo show that it is at least possible.
Daisies belong to one of the largest families of plants in the world, to the family of 'vascular plants', which circulate nutrients and water throughout the plant. They make up almost 10% of all flowering plants on Earth. My all time favorites!
A bit of Sunday trivia
Daisy Bell" was composed by British composer Harry Dacre in 1892. When Dacre first came to the United States, he brought with him a bicycle, for which he was charged import duty. His friend William Jerome, another songwriter, remarked lightly: "It's lucky you didn't bring a bicycle built for two, otherwise you'd have to pay double duty." Dacre was so taken with the phrase "bicycle built for two" that he soon used it in a song. That song, Daisy Bell, first became successful in a London music hall.
In 1961, an IBM 7094 at Bell Labs was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis. This recording has been included in the United States National Recording Registry.
Science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke witnessed the IBM 7094 demonstration during a trip to Bell Labs in 1962 and referred to it in the 1968 novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the HAL 9000 computer sings "Daisy Bell" during its gradual deactivation.
So now you know:-))
This daisy, cut from a plant outside, has been placed inside a potted plant. I used 75 frames for this focus stack, and blended them with Helicon Focus.