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Honey Bees have taken over my salt water pool
Comments (23)It's not just salt water they want. We have a fresh water pool and it's not so much the water, but the white pipe around the return from the pool filter. My husband made valves where the water returns to the pool with 2 different shut offs. Depending how you adjust them one pipe returns the water directly in the pool. One has a spray head that sprays the water into the air over the pool to keep the water cooler in the summer because it gets way too warm if not. We live in South Texas, enough said and with adjustment it also makes water run down the slide.. The honey bees congregate all around the center of that pipe and more and more keep coming. Last year it was the white stair rail going into the pool, however we've been blessed so far, they are not aggressive at all. When I hook up the pool vacuum, I have to have my face ,hands and arms right in the middle of them swarming around me to get it hooked up and they haven't even attempted to bother me, Thank God!! I was a little concerned at first, but so far so good. Anyway, just saying, it's not the salt....See MorePlant photography
Comments (3)Reproducing colors exactly from a plant to a digital camera and then to print is very difficult for many reasons. The time of day, the season that the photo is taken (spring vs summer vs fall) the light is reflected and absorbed in the garden and then backlit on the computer and reproduced in print and then interpreted by the eye. Lots of places it is changed although very slightly. Also the calibration of your monitor also affects the final color. It can appear perfect on your computer and still be off to the printers computer. Matching to paint samples will help as will your photo editor. If you are using a PC, I would suggest using Zoner editing software. It is much easier to use than Photoshop and is the most popular editor in Europe - but does not work on Macs. Like Photoshop, there is are temperature and vivid sliders to help get it correct but it takes time. Also taking the photos in shade - not full sun - will help the purples and blues. They are very difficult to render correctly! It is a matter of how the reds are recorded on digital media. To add to the confusion, the color that I call purple, may be magenta to the next person. I am a professional photographer, and painted for years and found that most color names are just approximations of the mix of primaries, red, green and yellow. Here is a link that might be useful: AccessibleGardens...See MoreFor those interested in Civil War photography
Comments (4)Those are really interesting. Amazing how much is the same in those pictures. Death and the Civil War is on American Experience on PBS (tonight for me). I have my DVR set to tape it, it looks very interesting. The sheer amount of deaths is astounding. That and the fact is they really don't know how many died. Here is a link that might be useful: Death and the Civil War...See MoreWildflower photography advice
Comments (2)FWIW, I've been taking a lot of flower pictures with a Canon Digital Rebel and Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX macro lens. I usually don't use a tripod, though that depends on lighting and personal preference. Most of my SW plant pictures at www.polyploid.net were taken with the Digital Rebel and Sigma 105mm. For greater magnifications I sometimes use extension tubes, which are hollow tubes mounted between the lens and the camera body that decrease the minimum focus distance of the lens, apart from that the only thing I use often on plant pictures is a flash on a hotshoe cord. Close-up filters are lenses that screw onto the end of another lens, basically just a magnifying glass that screws on. They will give you greater magnification, but usually with poor image quality. I don't take pictures of birds, so can't help on that one. What I do know is that any lens longer than 300mm is going to be either very expensive, or give crappy pictures. Patrick Alexander...See MoreLars
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