Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: seeds

Gone to seed a few weeks back....

Our milkweeds have gone to seed.

The cardinals, in particular, are pleased it's there.

@ Cheboygan State Park. This little guy and his mates kept us entertained all week.

I'm not entirely pleased with this photo, but was delighted to find the bird on our pedestal feeder. (& no, the name doesn't seem to make sense.) Same bird, better picture.

Evidently Baker Sanctuary's better shielded than our yard.

A flower a day for January .... Before.

A flower a day for January .... After.

The previous day's excellent light was still with us a year ago, so I celebrated in the yard. The Butterfly Weed's flyaway seeds are always tempting to photograph, but difficult to photograph--and to process--well. I tried several approaches to processing the photo above before selecting this version. Not bad for what amounts to a toy camera. ========== I posted a shot of Joan's tomatoes to 366 Snaps ; that shot's below. I think it probably speaks for itself. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 36 Title of " roll :" Around the Yard Other photos taken on 9/16/2012: Joan used some of the tomatoes to make chili. I took photographs.

One aspect of the self-imposed "change cameras every month" edict was that in about half of the months I'd find myself (re)learning the controls and quirks of the new device. In some instances--both Fujis, this Olympus, the Androids--the adaptation period took several days. This unfamiliarity sometimes interacted badly with my (also self-imposed) 15-photo "daily limit".... Last June 4 I had a definite idea for a 366 Snaps photograph--do something with Joan's brand-new tomato cages--and caught a useful image with my first shot. The next three photos, also of the cages, were less successful. I then wandered the yard mostly shooting pix of the flower beds. These were uniformly badly framed, and poorly focused. Not my most interesting photo session, I'm afraid. Then I filled the bird feeders, and took this photo of the birdseed on the pedestal feeder. I'm publishing it in color because, well, it's better in color. My Facebook friends may recognize this pic, as I used it for my cover photo a year ago today. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 13 Title of " roll :" Around Home Other photos taken on 6/4/2012: Roses and peonies and poppies--of such was the Daily Flower Census composed. The folder contains a few pix I'd shot the day before as Joan got the veggies in shape.