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aloe/sun
And, to wind things up from my visit to the Springs Preserve, here’s one last plant. The plant’s nice but really the best part is the way the sun was hitting it, making that new green growth just about glow.
Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 2.15.2024
ICM + the yucca
Oh, and that new lens? Also it does a lovely job with a bit of intentional camera movement.
In case you’d been lying awake at night wondering.
Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 2.15.2024
thatch + barrel
When I was traveling with a photography group last fall, a friend of mine let me borrow a lens – it was a very nice lens and I could tell why he was making it real clear that he’d loaned it to me. It was a 56mm, f1.2, and: wow!
And then, of course you know what happened: I had to get one for my very own. And I used it all day on my visit to the botanical garden; as it turns out, shooting short depth of field added some interest to these images that other lenses wouldn’t have gotten.
Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 2.15.2024
spalling
Oh, so I lied yesterday when I said I was only posting one photo of an agave. I clearly meant I’d be posting more than one.
But this one’s got the added interest of the way the clay pot is chipping apart. That’s really the reason I made the image – well, OK: it was the second reason.
Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 2.15.2024
impressed
A thing I’ve recently noticed that I like is going to botanical gardens when I’m traveling. It’s a nice way to get outside and see plants I may not be used to looking at, and to pretend that I am, in fact, the kind of person who likes yard work.
During a visit to the Springs Preserve, I was entirely enchanted at the way the unfolding spears of the agave plants embossed their shapes onto the adjacent spears. I think probably half the photos I made that day were of various agave…but (so far) I’m just posting this one.
Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 2.15.2024
One Day | One Image 