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Beautiful shots and colors, Ian, and helped by the context of the information (I feel wiser after viewing your post!).

 

Your info pack stirred my memories of magnificent wildflower outbreaks in the Murchison / Ashburton areas of Western Australia when the right environmental conditions occur. Rolling bare hills covered in an artist's palette of colors, seeming both bizarre, and natural at the same time. I remember meeting apiarists from Southern farms making trips North with semi-trailers holding their beehives whenever a good wildflower season was underway.

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I bought an OM2n a couple of years ago and never got around to playing with it. I was so jealous of my brother's OM1 back in the early seventies, and I'm beginning to remember why. Those microprisms make focusing so easy for old eyes!

 

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I'm going for my last opera weekend in Toronto next week, and I'm thinking I shall take this little beauty just for fun.

 

C.

Nice to see that reawakening, Chris. I think you should accept the challenge you just laid down to yourself*

 

* Note: In full declaration, I have a vested interest in wanting to see the outcome...

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You're getting to be very good at these shots, Wayne. I like them a lot.

 

The hopscotch has me intrigued - You appear to have a different layout in the New World.

 

If the footpath in front of my parents' house in the 1960's serves me right, Godzone Country determined the orthodox structure to be:

 

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Immediately following my encounter with the gentleman in previous post, I ran into this young man who peddled right up and asked if he could have my camera. I struck a bargain: he lets me take his photograph, and I let him use the camera to take a shot of me...

Excellent, Wayne. You may have sown the seeds for a future convert.

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I bought an OM2n a couple of years ago and never got around to playing with it. I was so jealous of my brother's OM1 back in the early seventies, and I'm beginning to remember why. Those microprisms make focusing so easy for old eyes!

 

50/1.4, XP2, HC-110, X1:

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Orchid by chrism229, on Flickr

 

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Dobson's Creek by chrism229, on Flickr

 

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Malagash beach by chrism229, on Flickr

 

I'm going for my last opera weekend in Toronto next week, and I'm thinking I shall take this little beauty just for fun.

 

C.

 

Very lovely tones and framing. 

Was this shot with your OM2n ?

thanks

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Beautiful shots and colors, Ian, and helped by the context of the information (I feel wiser after viewing your post!).

 

Your info pack stirred my memories of magnificent wildflower outbreaks in the Murchison / Ashburton areas of Western Australia when the right environmental conditions occur. Rolling bare hills covered in an artist's palette of colors, seeming both bizarre, and natural at the same time. I remember meeting apiarists from Southern farms making trips North with semi-trailers holding their beehives whenever a good wildflower season was underway.

 

 

Thanks Eoin. Yes, desert flowerings are usually very special and is an event I'd certainly like to see in person one day (the displays you describe sound wonderful). I can only real speak first hand about the annual flowerings of wild flowers and blossoms that I know and love but, knowing that these displays are so transient (sometimes the flowers start to fade or the blossom falls after only a few days), I find these events both uplifting and heartbreaking at the same time. I find the more I know about and appreciate wild flowers (and butterflies too), the more I have learned to appreciate "the now". Already, this year the early spring flowers (celandines and primroses) have largely gone and others like the cowslip are beginning to look a little tired. The pasque flowers I've shown above have gone too. It will soon by orchid season but if you blink too long you miss them for another year. :)

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Too much chit chat and not enough photos. :)

 

Back to flowers. In the UK the Pasque flower is now uncommon and is limited to chalk or limestone grassland that is grazed just right (not too much, not too little). Therfield Heath in Hertfordshire has probably the best remaining display of these flowers – certainly it must have the greatest numbers in one place – and this year's show was stunning by any measure. 

 

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W O N D E R F U L Ian

Great pictures color , contrast , contre-jour

Really nice

Thanks Ian to show us what we can do with film

Rg

Henry

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