Fully-functioning Twitter and I won’t deny, it is where most of my gardening friends are. But Mastodon was a lifeline for me at the weekend and so I shall not be fickle and abandon it. I hope there are #gardening and #flowers people I can connect with on here too.
We've just returned from our trip to the Netherlands, and I'm starting to post new photos! Of course, there was no way to not take a film roll and an analog camera. 📷 It was the first time I shoot photos with a rangefinder, if you like it, please stay tuned because there will be more to come! I took this shot in Amsterdam with the Zorki 4 camera (an old Soviet rangefinder) from 1966. 🥰
Gear:
• Zorki 4 (KMZ, 1966)
• Jupiter-8 50 mm f/2 (KMZ, 1967)
• Kodak Professional Portra 400/36
My favorite international grocery store has a bed full of these. I collected a couple seed pods no one was going to miss, planted them in the fall by the street where it gets no water or fert. Then two different utilities companies tore up the ground twice in winter. Just one plant came up.
Yesterday a good friend of mine lent me his vintage Contax/Yashica mount 50mm f/1.7 Zeiss Planar lens (late 70’s early 80’d vintage?) I was shooting flowers in the Beaches district in Toronto. I love how this lens renders wide-open! It will be hard to give this lens back! #Photography#color#flowers#Zeiss#Toronto
Spring has begun and magnolias have bloomed beautifully. I just mounted an old $20 Soviet lens to my Sony camera and took some photos. Check out the spring dreamy look! 🌸 Thank you for being there!
Gear:
• Sony α6400
• Jupiter-8 50 mm f/2 (KMZ, 1967)
• L39 to Sony E-Mount Adapter
Giving it another go with an Abutilon picsoni "Thompson's Maple". I dug the mother of all holes, amended the soil like heck, positioned the root ball, and back-filled. Followed by repeated watering. It's somewhat sheltered by an old Mock Orange. #gardening#perrenials#flowers#California
Yesterday I went to Cradle Mountain (where I saw a baby wombat) and noticed a plant on the Dove Lake track that I didn't know. Turns out it is a Green Mountainlily, a plant endemic to Tasmania that has only one close relative species which grows on New Caledonia.
It is an ancient species, dating back 120 million years and is easy to miss as it doesn't look anything special.