flowers

Snakes and flowers

It’s the new board game sensation!

Not really, I just have pictures of a garter snake (that I saw on the trail post-run yesterday) and some white flowers in a yard on Fader Street.

The snake was completely indifferent to my presence, so I was able to get in close for a good shot (this one is cropped, I didn’t get that close).

The flowers were not going to slither away, so I got even closer to them.

Power flower

All of these close-up shots of flowers I take are probably my way of subconsciously saying I want a macro lens or a smartphone that has macro capabilities. I love seeing this weird, heightened sense of reality that you don’t get by just walking by a flower and thinking, “That’s nice-looking.” I also think it’s funny how some of the shots I take actually look better than reality when viewed through the “viewfinder”, which in this case is the iPhone’s display. The HDR in particular makes everything look more vivid. Maybe too vivid? Maybe. But maybe not, because the colors and lighting are so very pretty.

Daisy (2001 joke here)

Also, holy cats, 2001: A Space Odyssey was depicting a future that is already 21 years in the past. Based on current smart home technology, the main reason an AI wouldn’t open the pod bay doors is because of:

  • Communication outage with server
  • Didn’t understand your perfectly spoken English (substitute any other language here as needed)
  • Sudden power outage
  • All of the above, cycling through at random

Anyway, here’s a photo of a daisy I took at Lower Hume Park. I tweaked it a bit in Pixelmator Pro to make it more dramatic and stuff.

Photo of the Day: Flower up close and personal

Removing the date from the title of the post because I am more often that not posting these photos later than the day on which they were taken, making the title a LIE and a SHAM.

This was taken at the Nature house at Burnaby Lake on August 14, 2021. I basically wanted to get as close as I could and as straight-on to the flower as possible.

Taken with an iPhone 12