I just got me a Lensbaby Composer lens and of course had to experiment taking pictures of some of my flowering peyote plants. Even though the subject line mentions “tilt-shift” the Composer technically only qualifies for the “tilt” part (a rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane) and actually doesn’t “shift” (i.e. doesn’t allow for movement of the lens parallel to the image plane) but I’ll stick to the “tilt-shift” label as it is often used to specifically refer to the use of tilt for selective focus as illustrated in the photo above.
Adding the Lensbaby fisheye optic to the Composer allows for an even more distorted and warped view on reality.
I never managed to get a single flower out of any caespitosa. This spring is beginning ok, though, with fricii and williamsii already taking turns in blooming... let's see how it turns out :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, beautiful blog, man!
-Juan
Seems like the latest addition to your family is quite a handfull. ;)
ReplyDeleteJuan, I also find caespitosa notoriously difficult to flower- I have not seen a single flower in my plants growing on their own roots, and only very few in my grafted specimen. The above plants are grafted jourdaniana and regular williamsii; both varieties flower quite freely.
ReplyDeleteShe is, Z, she is ;-) I've re-read my "Intermission" post and realize it can be a bit ambiguous - the beautiful flower I'm referring to is a woman that means the world to me; and takes a lot of my time ;-) Lately we have travelled for almost two months, leaving me little time for the blog - but I'll see if I can find time for updating it soon ;-)
it looks like a cactus
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a very nice and interesting blog!
ReplyDeleteRegards,
David