Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
Some folks have commented that they like the old-timey effect of my bloom day scans. That’s not intentional, I assure you. It’s due to using a crummy hand-me-down scanner and not having good imaging software on my home machine.
I took yesterday’s scan to work with me today and adjusted it with PhotoShop to try to get the colors closer to what the flowers actually looked like.
This is an improvement, but the bleeding heart still isn’t near as vibrant as it is in real life.
This month’s installment. It’s getting to be a little much for a single platenful.
Update [5/15/2008]: See new and improved version above.
Some more pix from this weekend …
No, I didn’t write down the variety. But I like these daffodils a lot.
A friend brought us a bucket of cut daffodils. I floated some in this old cow waterer. I played with a longer shot of those here.
The bluer side of bluebells (Mertensia).
Slightly different shot of the daffs.
Made some bad images trying to capture the cow waterer full of tulip flowers with the tulips in the background. But sometimes when you try to rescue images in PhotoShop, you come up with some interesting effects. (I had questions about how I got these images of koi and shebunkins at night.) I’ll post a regular close-up of the bowl-o-tulips shortly.
Every year when their daffodils peak, Nina Bassuk (faculty member in our Department of Horticulture) and Peter Trowbridge (chair of Landscape Architecture) kindly hold a Sunday brunch for their students, co-workers and friends to come see their gardens.
Why time it to the daffodils? Because they’ve planted about 100,000 of them over the years.
But there’s always much more to see at Peter and Nina’s (and interesting folks to meet and greet) than just the daffodils. Here are just a few highlights.
I’ve got my blue bottle tree and decorations. Nina and Peter have a new feature with blue pots.
Also new this year is a rebuilt wall. The old wall that was here and blown out in places had a certain charm. But this new one and the new bed in front of it are spectacular.
I tried to get Mimi and Mango to pose on these steps to further accentuate the symmetry…
But they were too busy having fun to take my ham bribes.
