Have you ever made a mistake while using a camera and ended up liking the “bad” photo best?
I had borrowed John’s digital point and shoot and had aimed the thing at one of the local native plants, a blooming bush poppy, Dendromecon rigida. The camera took forever to focus, and I thought it’d done its thing. But the flash went off as I was moving to put the camera back in my pocket.
The resulting photo combines a blurred rendition of the plant and mulch with just a little bit of subject matter frozen in place by the flash. It’s nothing you’d use to identify the plant, but I like it as a photo…
It’s partly a testament to the bush poppy’s bloom color I think. They have one of the prettiest yellows of any plant anywhere.
Yes, I’ve had that happen too. It’s one of the things that make photography so much fun! I like the artistic quality to your ‘oops’ photo.
Ryan, I agree about the clarity of yellow of these plants–not greenish, or orangeish, but pure, bright yellow.
Sande, thank you. It’s great to remain open to interesting accidents.
Interesting James. Hey, I have about 400 of those for sale real cheap! 😉
But it is Impressionistic almost. The composition has that extremely bright yellow center and the rest you fill in.
Steve, I bet you’ve got some winners in your “reject” pile!
Fun idea, creating an “action shot” out of a plant (even if it was unintentional).
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