flowers

Various early summer photos, July 3, 2025

Like the title says, everything from flowers to (toy) bombs.

The toy bomb was kind of weird.

A toy bomb placed on a railing in Hume Park.
A toy bomb placed on a railing in Hume Park.
Greenery along the Brunette River.
Greenery along the Brunette River.
Brunette River looking west.
Brunette River looking west.
A pink rose on Fader Street.
A pink rose on Fader Street.
Fun fact: This used to be cut grass. It's been left to return to a wilder state.
Fun fact: This used to be cut grass. It’s been left to return to a wilder state.
Early summer flowers, June 23, 2025.
Early summer flowers, June 23, 2025.

Dinosaurs clash (and other photos)

From around the neighbourhood today:

Prehistoric battle on Fader Street, shot with my prehistoric iPhone 12.
Lower Hume Park looking very green and jungle-like, thanks to perspective.
Wildflowers.
Brunette River, looking east.
Brunette River, lookinhg west. The vegetation is now hiding the construction of the SkyTrain maintenance yard.
Light and shadow in Lower Hume Park, ready to be a phone wallaper.

As Sinistar would say…

Yes, I am back from the world of barfing, barfing and then barfing just a little more.

I was able to get out and aboot today (to a doctor appointment, ironically), and took a few photos. Here they are!

Fresh-painted hydrant!
Non-painted flower.
A sticker accurately claiming “We outside.”

A field of daisies, May 4, 2025

I still don’t know what the box on the pole is. It was put up sometime last year. Maybe it’s for very thin birds.

This is in Lower Hume Park and the daisies will likely be gone the next time they mow the field, but it looks pretty right now.

Spring flowers

Like the title says. Photos shot on my iPhone 12 on a pleasantly warm mid-April afternoon.

The last one I had to adjust the vibrance down because the camera on my phone starts shrieking in horror when it sees red, which is apparently a common phenomenon, as reds tend to oversaturate the sensor on the camera. The fix is one of those very obvious things: reduce the red in the photograph (or reduce the vibrancy, which achieves mostly the same thing).

Flowers, April 9, 2025

My iPhone 12 apparently couldn’t handle these flowers, so I had to adjust the vibrancy down to get it closer to what a human eye would see:

And then the phone, with no horizon line for reference, rotated this photo from its landscape orientation to portrait, so I had to set it back, then tamp down the ultrabright white of the petals. At least doing these things makes me feel I’m contributing to the photography process, beyond just aiming the camera lens at something.