My Amateur Art & Photo Blog

Holy Hedera The sun catching the changing color of the leaves of this ivy I thought looked interested against the wall of this neighborhood church. Note: Hedera is the latin name for Ivy, and yes I had to look that up. Taken with the  Canon PowerShot SX230HS  in landscape mode, flash did not fire. Cropped for aspect in p ost processing to avoid overhead cables showing, their shadow can still be seen in the shot.

Japanese Andromeda Staying close to home again with today's shot of this Japanese Andromeda in our front yard that is still showing signs of new life. In fact it seems to be thriving in the very erratic, warm and humid fall Boston weather that we have been getting of late. Shot from the front room of our home towards the street. Opting for portrait mode on my P&S I focused on one of the new buds and was pleased that the SX230 was able to blur out the background, something normally I would only aim to achieve on my Pentax DSLR. Taken with the  Canon PowerShot SX230HS  in portrait mode, flash did not fire. P ost processing for tone correction only.

House Plant The heat wave continues and it was just too dang hot to be outside today so this is a photo of one of the plants we have laying around; one of the few that our cats haven't eaten! Taken with the Pentax K200d with its kit lens mounted to a Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AL lens and using the +10 closeup filter.

Alien Plant Actually it's dried eucalyptus plant stems but Alien Plant seems to describe this frame better don't you think? Taken with the Canon PowerShot SX230HS in portrait mode, no post processing.