Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: painted daisies

A year ago today I used a different crop of this photo for my February flower. This repeat was more or less planned. A Flower a Day for February .

As you can see, calling this a "flower bed" is a bit of a stretch. Somehow we arranged for these Painted Daisies to share a corner with random weeds, tall grass, and milkweed. The door into the garage opens, by the way, but you can't get in or out through here because the way's blocked by old appliances. We occasionally decide to let the wind blow through, and in winter we run a power cable out to the backyard birdbath's heater.

Our Painted Daisies are open, now, too. Experimenting this morning with a replacement lens on my V1; the original 10-30 mm broke (a completely typical failure , I see) and I've hustled up a replacement because it's pretty much my default lens. This one's white, which looks a bit odd on the black camera, but the main thing is that it evidently works well.

Ours are a little thin on the ground, this year, but what few we have are pretty.

The garden we planted last spring. The bluebird's a sculpture/ornament, not a real bird. Photographs can distort reality, despite folks claims to the contrary. This photo makes the garden look far more densely-packed than it actually is; it will be a couple years before we're fully satisfied with the arrangement. On the other hand we only lost one plant over the winter; we've replaced that.

A year ago, we'd about written this plant off; the weeds had plainly gotten to it. As you can see, it's come back very nicely. Gardening's fun that way.

Summer, 2002

A flower a day for January ....

A flower a day for January ....

A Flower a Day for February .

A Flower a Day for February .

Because none of the outtakes from last June 5 are worth sharing, you get this flower shot. Inevitably, since I was mostly shooting flowers a year ago, while I figured out the Nikon 1. As I noted yesterday, it generally took me a few days to get comfortable with the month's 366 Snaps camera. While I'd taken lots of photos with an Olympus C-50, I'd last used that camera seriously in 2005. So the first few days of June were definitely a learning experience. Last June 5 I drove around the block section for 366 Snaps , taking photos of the local farms and sky. The result was 13 photographs, only one of which could possibly be called "publishable." ========== I take lots of "field with sky" photographs, most of 'em framed to demonstrate depth of field by showing layers of scenic features. The daily (it's below, in the first comment) could be considered such a shot. The camera's pointed toward the Village of Mulliken across the Spitzley ( originally Potter ) land east of town. And there's a train on the old PM mainline. This is the only 366 Snaps photo with an actual train. It's a terrible train shot, and except for the sky only a marginal photograph. There are a few other shots in the photo-a-day set which reveal my railfan tendencies (I tend to call m'self a "recovering railfan"), but no others show actual trains. Joan bought me a scanner for m' birthday. I expect I'll succumb someday soon. ========== This photograph is an outtake (well, not really; it was taken on the same date, though) from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 13 Title of " roll :" Clouds & Farm Equipment Other photos taken on 6/5/2012: The Nikon 1 V1 got a fairly serious workout, between the Daily Flower Census and a couple hundred bird shots. Many of the bird photos were of woodpeckers.