My #Hoya cinnamomifolia is blooming! This is one of my oldest #hoyas and it rarely #flowers for me. I don't think it is a difficult #plant, I just think I'm neglectful.
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
Due date che, forse, alcuni di voi ricordano bene: 26 novembre 1989 e 17 novembre 1991. Sono le serate in cui una band rock, ancora poco conosciuta, si esibiva live per la prima volta in Italia scegliendo la #Brianza come tappa.
This was part of my flower a day project, taken with a #Helios442 lens, manual settings and focus. This #vintageLens gives a distinctive look and feel to the images that I really like for flower photography.
Original post is here, you can find endless blooms to scroll through taken in the same style : https://www.elliekennard.ca/echinacea/
Death Valley is alive this year. A #super#bloom is the latest sign.
In California’s Death Valley region, the last few months have been remarkably loud.
And the latest bellow is still ringing out, with the area’s #native#wildflowers bursting into bloom.
The flowers have filled a place best known for its shades of browns and grays with brilliant blasts of yellow and purple and sprinkles of pink and cream.
This display comes just weeks after the 🔹resurrection of a long-dead lake,🔹 which filled the park’s Badwater Basin and drew visitors from across the country for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to paddle across a body of water rarely revived since prehistoric days.
These fleeting phenomena can both be traced to the unusual and record-setting precipitation that has inundated the state since August, when Hurricane Hilary gave Death Valley its #wettest#day ever.
Subsequent storms dumped even more rain on the desert, eventually 🌟dragging it out of a years-long #megadrought.🌟
Good point:
"The industry could prioritize using less energy, build more efficient models and rethink how it designs and uses data centres. As the BigScience project in France demonstrated with its BLOOM model, it is possible to build a model of a similar size to OpenAI’s GPT-3 with a much lower carbon footprint. But that’s not what’s happening in the industry at large." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x #AI#generativeAI#energy#bloom#chatgpt#openai#nature
Our Epiphyllum (orchid cacti) is sure giving her best effort to finally bloom. We have been waiting for years. Amazing that this is happening just a few weeks after our freak hailstorm (26-May-23) that beat the crap out of our tropical garden.
forgot to set date and time on camera, mainly cause i really only did it once. It must have been without battery for too long and reset the date to my photos to Dec 12 2012. now i have to update this tag on about 100 photos i took think i will just use VB i can write that in a min to go through the whole folder. just have to remember the property names to change so the meta date is correct too.... #Peonies#Spring2024#Flowers#Bloom