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Posted by Susan Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2008-05-07, 05:31:14

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I had a very good shopping day yesterday. I needed a new camera for the up-coming trip. We have been looking at different cameras for well over two years and just weren't finding one that fit us. One trip to the National Camera Exchange got me the camera I was looking for: Coolpix P50.

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Posted by Sylvana Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, photos on 2008-05-06, 06:57:09

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I had a very good shopping day yesterday. I needed a new camera for the up-coming trip. We have been looking at different cameras for well over two years and just weren't finding one that fit us. One trip to the National Camera Exchange got me the camera I was looking for: Coolpix P50.

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Posted by Sylvana Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, photos on 2008-05-06, 06:57:09

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Cameras are my weakness, I used a SLR, a Pentax K1000 for years. I bought my first digital camera in 1997, it took a picture at 600 X 460 pixels or some such, but I love my toys. I have had several digital cameras since. One of my friends calls me Best Buy Betty..........lol.........and no my name is not Betty but I do love Best Buy.

My latest camera is a Nikon P5100, it takes great pictures, the above photos were in a magazine, I took a picture of the picture :)

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Posted by Iowa Gardening Woman Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, tools on 2008-04-09, 05:38:47

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Two different cameras. One a nice point and shoot and the other a higher-end digital SLR with an expensive “L” series lens attached. In this case that comes to about thirty-five hundred dollars difference in equipment costs.
It should be pretty easy to tell the difference. Shouldn’t it?
So go ahead.

reBlogged to photos tools on Mar 27, 2008, 5:55PM

Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, tools on 2008-03-28, 18:03:04

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Here is the online link to this week's The List: Top Home & Garden Events on page 24 of today's print edition in the Washington Examiner. You can find the Examiner in the many red street-boxes around town. I saved a screen capture of the listing as a JPG and posted it here -- which you can click on to read at 100%. . . .

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, shows on 2008-03-28, 17:59:15

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I have been taking a lot of pictures, but I am afraid I left my very nice camera on my US Airways flight in Phoenix and they are yet to find it. It was a Saturday flight and they sent the plane back to the hanger after we unloaded. My camera was up in the overhead storage. They assured me they would go look for it and call me back......

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Posted by Bulb Hunter Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, tools on 2008-03-26, 06:01:33

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Time-lapse photography has always impressed me. I just imagined there was someone spending a lot of time behind a camera taking heaps of photos as a flower began to bloom or an egg started to crack open. It seemed logical to capture these incredible events, but who really has the patience for this stuff?

Well it seems that one guy, Ross Ching, not only has the patience for it but is also willing to explain how he does it. If you're wondering whether he has any credibility check out his latest work Eclectic 2.0. While the images are stunning it simply takes your breath away when you realise that this was all performed using his DSLR and not a video camera. . .

reBlogged to photos tools on Mar 23, 2008, 7:03PM

Posted by scrobins@westnet.com.au (Stuart) Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, tools on 2008-03-25, 05:53:53

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Not since I was eight or nine would I have tried to use a sledge hammer to drive finish nails into detailed trim boards on a carpentry project.
And If I ever to decide to pony up the money for one of those beautiful, thin-walled copper egg-beating bowls, you can bet I won’t be using it to boil water on the hot coals of a camp fire. . . .

reBlogged to photos tools on Mar 24, 2008, 12:56PM

Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, tools on 2008-03-25, 05:49:37

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If you get your hands on a copy of today's Homes & Gardens of the Northwest put out by the Oregonian, check out the full page photo on the inside of the back page. You'll find a spring scene from my garden taken a couple of years ago. Deep burgundy playing against poppy chartreuse and cool blues ... spring, spring, spring!

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Posted by Darcy Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardens, photos on 2008-03-21, 06:19:50

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I've had a good quality digital camera for some time, but with a rather cheap lens (I know this is backwards from the way you're supposed to do things in photography). This lens has some strange Cyrillic writing on it that I suspect indicates it was manufactured in Kazakhstan. Well, today the Fed Ex man delivered my fancy new macro close-up lens. Of course he had to arrive with the package requiring a signature just as I was high up on the roof shoveling snow and ice off. . . .

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Posted by IBOY Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2008-03-15, 00:23:33

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You are invited to PhotoSynthesis, an exhibition of the winning images from the Second Annual Washington Gardener Photo Contest. All 16 stunning photos were taken in DC-area gardens. Both inspirational and educational, this show represents the best of garden photography in the greater DC metropolitan region. . . .

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2008-03-01, 19:00:43

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Earlier this winter I had a surprise email from a publisher. It turns out I sold my first photograph. (Yeahh!!!!) The publisher found the photo at my Flickr site. I'm not even sure what photo it is but it shows plants mulched with salt marsh hay. The photo is now in a paperback book titled "Complete Guide to Perennials (Miracle Gro)". . . .

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Posted by carletongardener Reblogged by Old Roses to books, photos on 2008-02-27, 18:00:28

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The list of 2008 Washington Gardener Photo Contest Winners is now posted on our web site here. The winners were shown and announced on Saturday, 1/26 at the 2008 Washington Gardener Seed Exchange. They will all be published in the March/April 2008 issue of Washington Gardener Magazine. They will also be on display at an upcoming photo show so you can view them in superb quality. . . .

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to magazine, photos on 2008-02-06, 07:19:49

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The entry period for the 2008 Washington Gardener Photo Contest has ended.

We had over 300 photo entries and, once again, I'm SO glad I'm not the judge. I scrolled through the entries and grabbed this one at random to show as an example of the quality of entrants we received. It is by Ed Knepley for the Garden Creatures category. . . .

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2008-01-22, 18:56:24

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In a crazy, bold and unprecedented move, Seattle photographer David Perry scored the rare cover/feat

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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, squash on 2008-01-21, 18:24:34

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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Posted by Chris Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2008-01-17, 05:43:54

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"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

~ Henry David Thoreau

There was a book I remember hearing about last year that fascinated me. Discovering Nature's Alphabet is a collection of photographic images by husband and wife team, Krystina Castella and Brian Boyl. In each photograph, natural elements form a letter of the alphabet. . . .

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Posted by Kylee Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, whimsy on 2008-01-15, 18:11:31

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Entries for our 2nd Annual Washington Gardener Photo Contest are now starting to roll in. There is still plenty of time to prepare and get your entries in to us by January 19. See the full contest details and entry form posted here. . . .

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2008-01-15, 18:08:20

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Posted by WashingtonGardener Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, photos, whimsy on 2007-12-20, 14:42:18

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Update 2007.12.10: I gave them permission to use the photo - a view of Governor's Island from Red Hook - and they included it. I got an email this evening notifying me that one of my Flickr photos has been short-listed for inclusion in a Schmap...

reBlogged to photos

Posted by Xris (Flatbush Gardener) Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-12-12, 00:28:48

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I posted on November 11, about my Picasa account. I had reached approximately 70% of my storage space in seven months and had duplicates of many pictures on Picasa. Annie in Austin, graciously looked at my blog to try to figure out my problem. She saw that my pictures were about 80% larger in pixels than those on her blog. . . .

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Posted by Robin's Nesting Place Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs, photos on 2007-11-24, 00:17:16

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-11-09, 00:28:21

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I have posted new pictures in the blog sidebar.  Or you can click here.

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Posted by Lesli Peterson Reblogged by Old Roses to blogs, photos on 2007-11-07, 00:46:56

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These are the winners of the Sept picture contest - check 'em out. . . .

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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-10-27, 00:31:23

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I love the macro feature of my camera but the camera I love to use best, a Panasonic DMC FX3, can't focus very closely, only about 2" from the subject. The other camera I bought mostly because of it's close macro ability and superior optics has proven to be a cumbersome beast so I rarely use it. That camera a Canon A620 is by no means a large camera and tiny compared to a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex camera. Without add on lenses can focus down to an incredible 1cm which is about 3/8", giving you an extreme macro view of the subject which I wish the Pansonic could do. . . .

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Posted by Ki Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, tools on 2007-10-18, 18:53:28

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I've been trying to clean up my computer files for the last several days. I have thousands upon thousands of pictures of flowers and nature related things that I have uploaded since I began blogging. I usually take pictures everyday and some days I will take about a hundred or more pictures, sometimes with more than one camera. So many of those are just taking up memory space on my computer. I mean, how many blurry pictures of pink tulips do I need to keep? Really, how many good pictures of pink tulips do I even need to keep? I think I might have a problem. I hope I'm not the only one who does this.

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Posted by Robin's Nesting Place Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-09-22, 06:25:38

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I hope you'll upload your best garden pictures here for our September Photo Contest. .

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Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-09-06, 06:24:42

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Posted by Susan Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers, photos on 2007-08-16, 06:15:59

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We are using the scanner as a camera. Put the flower or other material on a flatbed scanner, don't close the cover, scan it and see what happens. These are things we learn about at

Gardeners Gumbo

We talk gardening, but also share photos of pets, family, flowers, vacations. We talk about our fun times, our not so fun times. We get info about most any question we have from members who are experts.

Come join us. We would love to see and meet you.

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Posted by Jan Goldfield Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-08-09, 18:49:53

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My pocket camera a Nikon S-1, that I take on dogwalks, was too finicky and frustrating to use. Granted it was small and thin so easily pocketable but lacked image stabilization so I often ended up with blurred images in spite of it having blur detection ability. I would often get the message "the image is blurred, do you want to keep the photo" so I would have to take the picture again with often the same results and still have some blurred pictures that the camera missed detecting. . . .

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Posted by Ki Reblogged by Old Roses to photos, weeds, wildflowers on 2007-08-09, 18:49:39

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Photo assistants have teased me many times over the years because I instinctively adjust my posture

reBlogged to photos on Aug 6, 2007, 12:11PM

Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-08-07, 18:51:56

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The National Gardening Assoc is having a photo contest for kid’s gardening. You can check out the details right here.

The neat thing is that they’re offering $250. for a first prize. Go for it gentle readers!

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Posted by Doug Reblogged by Old Roses to Gardening, kids, photos on 2007-06-13, 18:04:53

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Posted by Xris Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-06-03, 00:13:19

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Several people have commented asking how I am able to take pictures of the baby robins that I've posted a few times. I'll attempt to provide some step-by-step instructions here. . . .

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Posted by Carol Reblogged by Old Roses to birds, photos on 2007-05-25, 19:01:13

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Hey all of you garden bloggers , both indoors and out, here's a fun contest to enter : Mrbrownthumb is calling for entries in the Houseplant Photo Contest. Please visit him at http://www.mrbrownthumb.blogspot.com for all the details.

He's asked me to be one of the judges. It should be a lot of fun. We both look forward to seeing your lovely photos.

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Posted by Carolyn gail Reblogged by Old Roses to houseplants, photos on 2007-05-18, 18:32:50

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This past weekend I was preparing my houseplants to summer outdoors and grow outside the confines of the indoor garden. During the summer my houseplants go outside and become part of the garden in some way. While I was rinsing down plant leaves with the garden hose and checking on their general health I started thinking of all of the houseplant entries I've seen on other garden blogs and the searches for houseplant information that bring people to my blog. . . .

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Posted by MrBrownThumb Reblogged by Old Roses to books, houseplants, photos on 2007-04-26, 17:06:00

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Posted by Xris Reblogged by Old Roses to botanical_garden, photos on 2007-04-04, 00:02:22

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Here begins a series of articles in response to readers' interest in knowing more about general landscape photographs and residential landscaping pictures online

reBlogged to photos on Mar 31, 2007, 4:00AM

Posted by Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-04-02, 23:45:48

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The other day I made a post about a photo contest. I do hope that some of you might want to enter the contest. All you need to do is use your creativity and your sense of humor and take a photo of a...

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Posted by Tricia Reblogged by Old Roses to fruit, photos on 2007-03-30, 16:45:10

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Washington Gardener editor Kathy Jentz has done it again - another successful event, this one showcasing winners of the first-ever DC Garden Photography Contest.  Great turn-out, great photos, and lots of energy.  Yes, she's doing it again next year and keep that in mind this season when you're snapping photos anywhere near Washington, D.C.  (Kathy's all about LOCAL.)  Categories will be Garden Views, Small Wonders and Garden Creatures.

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Posted by Susan Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-03-28, 16:49:09

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Miss Marge of Weiser ID let me know that my photos weren’t showing up on the this page. Well, mea culpa, my bad, I hadn’t uploaded them. Yikes!

I did get that taken care of yesterday, and again they didn’t show up for your viewing pleasure, BUT, Cold Climate Gardening tells me they should appear sometime today. Apparently there is a time lag after you upload and until they appear on the Flickr badge. . . .

reBlogged to photos on Feb 27, 2007, 10:21AM

Posted by Mary Ann Reblogged by Old Roses to photos on 2007-02-28, 23:57:37

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