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Rain covered blossoms of a Red Oleander plant. Macro Floral Photography, Floral Photography, Macro Photography

Red Oleander Blossom

"And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The much anticipate three CD install of Linux I performed is corrupt. This is a fantastic discovery considering the time spent, err... wasted and the fact that the last time I did a Linux uninstall the bugger decided to corrupt windows on the way out. It was a spite thing I swear. All I want to be able to do is test my development projects against Konqueror and have some peace that sites are working in Macintosh environments. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to do this.

Rain covered blossoms of a Red Oleander plant I photographed earlier in the year. The plant arrived on the door step in an emaciated state. What started out as just three shoots and a few flowers quickly became a tree of red and green under the watchful eye of mom's green thumb. Not that her thumb actually has eyes or is in fact green...

Nikon D70 | 200 | 1/30 | f5.6

  • Lens: Nikon 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D AF
  • Flash: None
  • Tripod: None
  • Lighting: Ambient Sunlight
  • Post Pro: Levels & Color Balance
  • Weather: Rain
  • Time of Day: Afternoon
  • Location: Milton, Ontario, Canada

Posted on January 3, 2006 9:27 AM | | Comments (10) |

Comments

J&J's Mom

Gorgeous! Happy New Year Paul!

Posted at January 3, 2006 8:21 PM

Haas

Amazing snap

Posted at January 4, 2006 12:18 AM

Chantal

The clearity of the water drop is great.

Posted at January 4, 2006 6:56 AM

Mike (exscientia)

THAT , my friend, is a GREAT shot.

Posted at January 4, 2006 9:17 AM

geoff

Happy New Year my dear Friend! I love this shot... gorgeous stuff!

Posted at January 4, 2006 9:34 AM

Ben

Beautiful, as ever Paul.

Posted at January 4, 2006 10:21 AM

Dorko

oOo. That is very nice. Love the Longfellow quote you placed with this...
(Mike - exscientia, sent me this way)
May you find your 'peace' with Linux!

Posted at January 4, 2006 12:29 PM

deb

Brilliant photograph!!

Posted at January 4, 2006 3:00 PM

Paul Sveda

Thanks all...

I never know what people will resonate with in a photo. Its kind of a pleasent surprise to find out what you thought was an okay'ish shot actualy worked. Its just as surprising though and a reminder how much I have to learn when what I thought was a great shot falls on its face! :)

Cheers.

P.

Posted at January 4, 2006 5:12 PM

Edo

I can't speak anything. GREAT Paul.

Posted at January 5, 2006 5:07 AM