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camera oops

Have you ever made a mis­take while using a cam­era and ended up lik­ing the “bad” photo best?

I had bor­rowed John’s dig­i­tal point and shoot and had aimed the thing at one of the local native plants, a bloom­ing bush poppy, Den­drome­con rigida. The cam­era took for­ever to focus, and I thought it’d done its thing. But the flash went off as I was mov­ing to put the cam­era back in my pocket.

The result­ing photo com­bines a blurred ren­di­tion of the plant and mulch with just a lit­tle bit of sub­ject mat­ter frozen in place by the flash. It’s noth­ing you’d use to iden­tify the plant, but I like it as a photo…

April 26 2009 | Categories: gardening • photography | Tags: bush poppy • Dendromecon rigida • photographic mistakes | 7 Comments »