Aaaaand more picspam...

[catspaw]

...yes, yes, I can hear the groans from here, shutup, you don't need to click on the cut... ;-)

Another three-way today ;-) Me, nicci_mac and ximeria at the Botanic Gardens. Xim showed me the other day how to use the macro properly, so this was a great excuse *g*



First though, a picture of the glasshouses that we spent all of our time in today. Just because it's a lovely building.



The flowers in all the different habitats were utterly glorious. There were cacti and succulents, and strelitzias, and orchids galore, and really odd yellow bud-type things, lord alone knows what they were.













Edit Xim found out what the odd yellow bud things are (all hail Ximeria and the power of her google fu) - a variety of ginger, apparently :-)

The temperate houses had some little gems too.




But my absolute favourite picture of the day was this one. I just love love LOVE how the water turned out, like old 1950s squiggly wallpaper (except not that vile mustard yellow *g*).

Comments

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

Nope. :) I love it when the camera captures what you see and the advent of digital, with those live windows, is probably the best thing since sliced bread. No mystery wasting of film. ;)

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, digital mightily rocks. If nothing else, it turns photography into an affordable hobby, not just the preserve of those with either their own dark room or very deep pockets :-)

[riverfox.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And saves us all from rushing to the photo lab only to find that the technician has screwed up your pictures. *sighs* If only they'd had digital cameras back when I was traveling around in the Army.

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Just think of the photos you would have had.