I must not be living right. Took 114 photos yesterday of Merrikech, Tiara, Grand Marnier, Creamcicle, Peaches & Cream and Pink Favorite, Ecuador Pink, Pink Beauty and Butterfly. NONE of them came out. I took them in the greenhouse with the black background. It did not dawn on me that the humidity was making the lens fog. Every photo is fogged over. Today it is so windy that can't take photos. Some of these I have waited a year and half to see them bloom and they will not be there tomorrow or will be wilted. SIGH!!
Pictures didn't turn out
You are having almost as much luck as I am. No blooms all summer, too hot and dry, then buds dropped off when it went down to 48 degrees, now one oldtimer is blooming, others just ready to open, 31 or lower tonight!! Guess we don't hold our mouth right???
What a bummer Barb. Seems like there's always sumthin to spoil our fun. I hope the blooms last so you can get another chance.
BWard, your luck sounds like mine. I found out about the lens fogging last year. It's terribly windy here today, blew some more brugs over, I just left them laying.
Not good luck for you, Barb and Hibiscus. I don't have anything left outside to blow over Susie. Just too cold here so everything is in the two garages. Heating the greenhouse until I can get the cuttings into the basement. Just seems too early to me, but I'm probably just not looking forward to winter.
oh Barbara, sorry. which ones had you waited on so long??
Thanks for the lens fogging tip.....sorry you had to learn the hard way....that's would be a real bummer!
I spent most of today chopping up all my brugs and packing up the cuttings I had promised folks. Glad brug clean-up only comes once a year:)
Owen
Oh no! That's too bad. Maybe they will still be out tomorrow and you'll have another chance to take some pics.
This is the first time Merrikech, Tiara, Grand Marnier and Creamcicle have bloomed. Merrikech looks some where between Milk N Honey, U Conn Treasures or Cypress Garden. Attaching a photo of Tiara-I beleive it is suppose to change colors??? Sorry about the bad photo.
I am so sorry to hear this. All the work and anticipiation and then all foggy pictures ... Last time I went to visit the tropical house in Copenhagen Botanical Garden I took out the camera to let it adjust to the humidity. It took a quarter of an hour, but them the lens was clear. The fog on the lens is due to temperature difference between the camera and the GH atmosphere.
Tiara--fogged!!
LOL Tonny--Are you a punster?
I am so sorry you didn't get the photo's of your blooms. I have to set my camera out side for 30 minutes before I can take photo's. It is so hot and humid here. I have to drive with no a/c when out birdwatching or the lens fogs and I miss the shot.
I don't know - I think they look magical like this. I like them.
Barb . . how frustrating to have taken all those pictures and the lens to be fogged. I was wondering if a camera store might have something to wipe on the lens to stop this from occurring. I hope that you will be able to take some more before the blooms are gone. Your pictures are always so pretty.
BrugNanny, good idea. Will have to check. Thanks for the kind words.
Barb always takes great pics...now if we could develop the
"Lexicon of Brugmansias" with about 300 pics of all the known and grown brugmansias.Would make a great coffee table book. :-)