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Having packed up my camera gear and came back in the warm, I looked at the photos I'd taken. And compared them to the best shot I took last year, and realised what I was missing in this year's shots. Closeness. I set everything up again, framed the shot as close as I could get to fit it all in. And...

Yeah, I'm happy with that one.

#Florespondence #Floraspondence #BloomScrolling #Photography

A single solitary snow drop in the centre of shot. A green stem arching in from the left, suspending the bloom in the centre. While there's detail visible in the petals. The focus is drawn to the centre of the flower, flecked with green, I sharp focus.

The background is black. — A single solitary snow drop in the centre of shot. A green stem arching in from the left, suspending the bloom in the centre. While there's detail visible in the petals. The focus is drawn to the centre of the flower, flecked with green, I sharp focus. The background is black.

Quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st · 7 days ago

Another technically excellent snow drop photo. But still doesn't quite give me the "wow" I'm looking for in a snow drop photo.

#Florespondence #BloomScrolling #Photography

A close up of a snow drop flower dropping in to shot from the right, against a black background

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@xenophora@mastodon.art · last week

A horizontal rectangle with a background like light brown suede or velvet. Two diagonal smaller panels, and two loops of bright green ribbon. Each pair at opposite corners. Four five-petaled flowers cut from a 1950s photo of assorted chocolates, three round 1940s brown buttons, plus a 1950s coffee pot and cup and saucer are arranged around the edge. A large pair of old lithographed brown eyes watch from the lower right. Old ad text: "Electric Percolator" plus, "And chewy centers-- 10 different centers, crunchy and chewy."

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@xenophora@mastodon.art · 2 weeks ago

A vertical mustard yellow rectangle with a curving vertical texture of fine lines. A woman's portrait made of large, pale green tropical leaves, bent yellow spoons, and three vari-sized oval wires. All the metal is gilded. Her hands, gray eyes, and pink lips are all from 1950s fashion photos. The hands reach towards here face and have pink nails to match her lips. She is flanked on either sides by two black and white fashion drawings of a 1950s woman in a modest dress. These women have green plastic bread ties for heads. Trim: a couple of tiny red "gems" on the portrait, some gray or green clouds in the background, and some bits of torn or cut text from diet ads.

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Quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st · 2 weeks ago

I'm not going to toot all the photos I took today. It was a lot. But I think this is the best one I got. Good separation from the background. Sharp focus of the centre of the flower, and much of the rest of the plant. Definition visible in the petals. And even a little water droplet. Not bad. Going in the "one of the better photos" pile.

#Florespondence #BloomScrolling #Photography

A lone snowdrop flower (Galanthus) against a black background. The stalk of the flower is visible with a curved arch over the top of the flower. Another leaf is just poking up in the bottom of shot. There's a droplet of water on the right hand most petal.

Quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st · 2 weeks ago

Long time followers will know of my quest each spring to take the perfect photo of a snow drop. Last nights snow gave me the opportunity to try a classic "snowdrop in the snow" photo. Unfortunately I couldn't get a good enough framing with the solitary snow drops I have. To get the snow in the framing just looks wrong. Still not a bad shot of a snowdrop. Not sure if it's my best photo to date tho.

#Florespondence #BloomScrolling #Photography

Close up of a snowdrop flower (Galanthus). The bloom and part of the stork is visible. The background is blurred with bokke. There's droplets of water just about visible on the nearest petal.

Fedi.Tips

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services · 2 weeks ago

Most hashtags are pretty obvious, you just put # in front of a topic. For example if a post is about coffee it might have the tag #Coffee

However, many popular hashtags have difficult-to-guess names, so I've started a list to help people discover them:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/fun-and-useful-hashtags-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-wider-fediverse

Copy-paste a hashtag into the search box in Mastodon if you want to browse or follow it.

If you have suggestions for non-obvious hashtags that should be added to the list, let me know in the replies 🙂

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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services replied · 2 weeks ago

p.s. Just to make clear what this list is for:

This isn't a list of all the hashtags people should use, because most of them are obvious and don't need a guide. Something like #Gardening is obvious and there's no need for anyone to tell you about it.

The point of this list is for unusual tags which aren't obvious. Things like #LichenSubscribe or #Florespondence aren't tags you could guess the existence of, you would have to be told about them. That's the point of this list.

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Amandine

@eco_amandine@mastodon.cr · 2 weeks ago

Happy with my little garden #Gardening #Jardineria #bloomscrolling #florespondence #HuertosUrbanos

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Amandine

@eco_amandine@mastodon.cr · 2 weeks ago

Happy with my little garden #Gardening #Jardineria #bloomscrolling #florespondence #HuertosUrbanos

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Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · 2 weeks ago

NatureMapr is closing down, so I’m going to have to start using something else to record sightings. I’m using Merlin Bird ID already, but I also want to ID insects and lizards and plants. Should I use iNaturalist, or something else? Mostly I see things in #Canberra but also sometimes elsewhere in NSW.

#lepidoptera #lizard #florespondence #birds

Emma Davidson

@emmadavidson@aus.social · last month

Started some cuttings of correa, hakea (or maybe it’s an acacia?), crowea, silver banksia, and indigo (I think?) on the balcony to add to the guerilla gardening stash. Hoping that in two or three months, they’ll be ready to plant out in reserves and green strips, where they’ll provide food for local birds and insects.
#gardening #florespondence #ClimateAction #bees #birds #butterflies