Nerine notes in MA
AW (Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:28:20 PDT)
Your cut stem blooms look beautiful, Matt. They are not the easiest
subjects for photographing.
Andrew Wilson
San Diego
Well, as long as we are all chatting about Nerine, I might as well
share my images on my Flickr page from last week.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/exploraculture/page2/
I tried photographing all of my collection this year, since most
bloomed, so that I could have an image with the name tag, and the
blossom, but they are so challenging to photograph. I spent three days
shooting each stem with a label, but they looked nothing like the real,
live, blossom.
I finally decided to just pick them all, and arrange them on a board
in the garden, arranged in floral foam by color. I figured that a nice
photoshoot was worth a few seeds!
Matt Mattus
Worcester, MA USA
Zone 5b