Location Taken: Baddeck, Nova Scotia
Time Taken: July 2012
I’m not sure what plant this is. It’s in the budding phase, not the flowering, and it’s really difficult to identify on leaves alone.
Still, even without flowers, this is a beautiful plant.
Yesterday, I talked about getting the focus slightly off. Today is an example of getting the focus perfect. The main bud-stalk is crisp and clear, showing detail down to the minute hairs on the stalk. The background blurs, which in turn brings even more focus to the stalk, especially as the stalk tip is right in front of the furthest-back part of the photo.
This stalk was only a few inches tall. In order to get it perfectly in focus, I had to adjust my camera to a setting that only has perfect focus for a centimeter or two. And I don’t use a tripod, so I have to hold my hands steady lest I incur even more blur from the slightest shift.
All so I can show off the true beauty of a plant lots of people walked right past without noticing.
Hollyhock. I can’t tell if it would be single or double blooms, though.
I had a suspicion you’d know. :3 But you weren’t awake to ask when I wrote it, and none of my plant-identification sites could handle it properly. (I really need to find a decent one, rather than the kinda-maybe-sorta adequate ones I keep finding.)
Actually, the previous comment was me. I hadn’t noticed that your father had commented from this machine.