Garden Shot a week in.
New Growth
Spring Garden
A day of work work, and home work. After building some new garden boxes almost a month ago, I finally got around to purchasing some garden soil and plants. Today’s little Sapling will grow into a chilli making machine – one of my more favourite summer plants.
Smurf Village?
Smurf Village? Unlikely, but a bumper mushroom/toadstool patch none the less.
Shot on the Ricoh GRD IV, cropped and resized in Gimp.
Garden Colours
Another shot from the Olympus E500 showing off its colour palette.
Scaled and profile bordered in Gimp.
Immature chilis
With another week passing, here is another garden shot. According to the label when I purchased the saplings, I am in the process of growing red chilli’s (or chili depending on your areas spelling). Covered by my tomato plant (I tend to pack as many saplings into a small area as I can, then wonder how they will have room to grow later), I was not sure if they were going to take, but in the last 3-4 weeks the plants have shot up and started to amass a number of hopefully soon to be red chilli.
Shot in the Sony Nex with 30mm Sigma lens, I chose the image today for its simple relaxing green feeling.
We have a long weekend here in Auckland, with Monday being Auckland Anniversary Day. Although the weekend it starting to look busy, with a little luck I will try to get out and about and do some shooting.
Flowers in my Garden
It wasn’t that long ago in life that I had zero interest in gardening. My family had always had large gardens full of fruit, veg, and flowers. I’m sure as a small child I would have helped here and there, and do recall planting the odd tree, but I guess once ‘teenagedom’ hit, the appeal of gardens also wained somewhat. Now, years later, I am by no means any form of botanist, but do strangely enjoy the odd potter in the garden.
Our current residence was fairly bare when we shifted in, and determined to do something with it I built a range of planters and boxes for mostly vegetables, but also some small fruit trees and flowers. This summer has been pretty nice to date (excluding today’s intermittent dark clouds and strong winds), and the whole garden has taken off amazingly.
Coming home from work, the light was quite nice to get the full colour of the flowers in our back garden, so I put on the Sigma 30mm onto the Nex and took a few shots, the above being today’s pick.
In post processing I adjusted the levels a little, slightly pushed the sharpness and cropped.
As we approach the weekend, it looks like I will be off to see a group playing music somewhere. All going well I’ll take along my camera and see if I can capture any band shots. Still Friday to go yet!
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