Wild grape
Every so often I get a hankering for the "macro" mode on my ancient Coolpix 950. I think it's the shallow depth of focus that I can't get (or haven't figured out how to get) with the Lumix FZ7 that I normally use.
Pictured here is a remnant of a wild grape vine that was growing on a fence in front of our building and was then ripped out. Some of you might have seen my older picture of it: 20081030 First snow of 2008.
20090303 Nikon Coolpix 950
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Macro ... not Av ... right ... I am learning all this, so serious question.
Hi Julie, nice to see you again! :-)
Just the 'macro' setting on the camera. The 10 year old LCD display is too dark and the camera turns off way too frequently (to save battery power) to fiddle around with the aperture value. There's a so-called 'sweet spot' setting in the macro mode where the camera will focus down to 0.8" and I've had really good results with it. I'm looking forward to playing around with more manual controls when I finally get a dSLR or similar.
I thoght I reccgnised it as a grapevine! Tough things these!
I rediscover Villigen. The pictures are always so beautiful and varied
Hi Martin
See the picture on the link:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4EC1hClhtb0/SQzJwVvT-EI/AAAAAAAACks/tmb7ZZKG7K0/s400/IMG_0720.jpg
It's the wild form.
Wellingtonia
Hi Martin, thank you for writing. Tough things for sure, whatever they are. ;-)
Hello Bergson: That is such a nice thing to say. Thank you very much. :-)
Hi Wellingtonia,
I'm glad to see you here because I wanted to follow up on something from my October post. Back then, I had identified this plant incorrectly as ivy and you had pointed out that ivy stays green all winter. This stayed in my mind a long time because I was sure I had seen something called ivy turn red in Autumn in the New England region in the US. But I didn't find a photo quickly and then I forgot all about it. Well, now I've found it for you. It's called Boston ivy. It's not a true ivy and it is actually related to the grape plant. Here are some photos, the third one in the row (click here) shows the fall foliage.
Now that I think about it, the term Ivy League, if it originally had anything to do with the vines growing on the facades of New England university buildings, might be a misnomer.
In the mood for macro mode, not bad at all.
It's such a cool image. You will have fun when you do get a dslr, and I predict some stunning results.
poetry.....sheer poetry.......
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