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Friday Slide Show: Apple Blossoms
26 April 2024
Without our noticing it, the old apple tree has blossomed. We hadn't noticed because after last year, we'd given it up for dead. There just wasn't much life in the old wood.
It will be interesting to see what happens this year.
We've been assaulted by gophers. Not just our yard. Not just our neighborhood. Not just our city. The entire peninsula seems to have been invaded by the destructive little beasts.
The trunk of our lemon tree was stripped bare by the things. And the roots of the apple tree were not missed either.
But here it is April and here are the blossoms.
We thought we'd be clever and use Macro mode on the Apple 15 Pro Max to get our shots this year.
That didn't go very well, we realized as we edited the images in Lightroom. Depth of field was very shallow and focus was more off than on. There was only one image that we really liked (and it's the one that leads our show).
So we went back out to the garden just as the sun was coming out with our Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm II R kit lens with a 10x Lensbaby macro converter screwed into the lens.
Now we were getting somewhere.
We're so used to swiveling the EVF up to get low shots that we didn't think of turning it off and using the LCD to compose with the camera away from our face. Shooting macros in a tree, that's not a bad approach.
But we managed. And we really liked what we saw when it came up on the screen.
So give this round to the 14-year-old Olympus.
