Bill Jennings's Photoblog
Frosted Borage
Posted by Bill Jennings ((Bay Area Northern Calif), United States) on 6 July 2009 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.
From the garden, one unusually cold morning.
Just made it home after a month of travel - posted a few photos from my journey to within 48 miles of the antartica circle: at nearly the longest day of the year: hence, there was 21 hours a day of sunlight...
Thank you for your patience while I was out of touch.
I do hope you followed Bob Kelly's blog (my roommate) while he is still traveling - he is now on Easter Island - and will be updating his blog for some time to come - please check it out!
@BLISTR: thank you Blistr - god has the credit for making this one !
dj.tigersprout from New York City, United States
wow! what a texture!! what detail!! i was thinking it was a starfish!!! :)
6 Jul 2009 5:31am
@dj.tigersprout: It could be a starfish: I saw some this weekend at the Monterey Bay Aquarium that looked very similar...
zOOm from Paris, France
Very nice details indeed ! A nice cristal sculpture indeed. :-)
6 Jul 2009 7:06am
@zOOm: Thanks zOOm, I was stunned to see it - especially in our warm neighborhood.
Marie-Hélène Ammor from Casablanca/Paris, Morocco
Wow...superb it seems to be an iced monster !
6 Jul 2009 11:48am
@Marie-Hélène Ammor: Amazing how things look under a macro lens !
Mirko Herzner from Mühlheim am Main, Germany
Cool detail in this shot. Works good in b/w.
6 Jul 2009 4:49pm
@Mirko Herzner: Thanks Mirko, especially about your comment on the B/W treatment/processing.
@Steve Rice: Nice pun Steve!!! thanks for the kind words.
@Sugata: Thanks, that's a real nice complement - I wish I could say I see more at time of taking the photo : most often, I notice the images at time I edit them in PS...
@Sarah: Thank you Sarah. You must see so much more frost than I, being in Switzerland - in the bay area of california, especially in summer when this flower is in bloom - it's quite rare.
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
1/50 second
F/16.0
ISO 200
180 mm