[Leica] Late Friday flower.

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Ted, drifting a little OT here, but hey it is the LUG.
The information about the walk on stones is very interesting.
It sounds like a Zen garden sort of tradition.
Your no. 2 son has used them creatively.
My walk on stones are pre-cast concrete, but they do lead to the shady hut 
set in tropical garden and with a beer fridge.

Cheers
Hoppy

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Late Friday flower.

Hoppy said:
Subject: RE: [Leica] Late Friday flower.


> Ted, that's meticulous and impressive. The background almost seems to be 
> lunar. Certainly highlights the flower beautifully, of
> course, both with the neutral grey and the OOF smoothnes.
> Regarding the time taken, it would have still been Friday somewhere, using 
> the accepted LUG time system.<<<

Thank you kind sir. The grey "moon like" object in the background is a 
native Indian walking stone that normally is placed in the garden as a walk 
on stepping stone.

However number 2 son, that doesn't mean he's any lesser than his older 
brother, it seems I always have to clarify that he's second born! ;-) Or you 
know who..... she etc .:-)  So Scott set most of the walk on stones on edge 
in the garden..... he says " they look much better!"  So that's the kind of 
lunar effect of the background.

Glad you liked it, I don't do them very often but it usually happens like 
this... I go out to have a look at the property, actually to find out if the 
deer have been foraging off the flowers and some little thing catches my 
eye.

"Oh that looks interesting?" I go inside get the Leicanon 20D ASA 100 and 
whatever Leica lenses I think I might need and go "click, click!" ;-) That's 
it.:-)

You see the old KISS thing works forever! ;-)

ted