Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
My monthly efforts with plants and a cheap scanner.
Sorry these are late. Busy spring. And it’s not like I’ve been spending a lot of time in the garden, either. Can barely stay ahead of the grass, much less the weeds. Oh well.
Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here.
Leucojum vernum and thalia daffs
Dicentra spectabilis complete with water and pollen, which is pretty much what this spring has been about.
April bloom day is always one of my favorites. I can concentrate all the little gems from around an otherwise pretty bleak (though greening-up quickly) landscape onto the scanner bed. Only thing better is getting down on my belly to shoot these gems in situ.
Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here.
In reverse order. (I am reminded that often less is more.) Eranthis warmed inside to open. Begonia and forced tulips from Hortus Forum, Cornell’s undergraduate horticulture club. Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here.
I moved this amaryllis out of the cold back bedroom two weeks before bloom day. But it still took forever to move from bud to bloom. Oh well. Better late than never. Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here.
Thanks, as usual, for Carol for hosting at May Dreams. More scans here. Flower scanning directions are here.
Slim pickin’s around here. (Sweet potato, begonia, violets, lantana.) Just wasn’t in the mood for one of those sullen dead plants scan.
Some details …
I also fiddled around some with the same material using David Perry’s ‘Macro in a Mason jar’ technique. I still have a few technical bugs to work out. I’m not real proud of my efforts, but will probably scoot over to Gardening Gone Wild to enter in the ‘Picture This’ photo contest that David is judging.
