NEW RULES- Open photo assignment- Share your favorite random pics

Seasoning some soil over the winter for the upcoming season.

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Due to politics we are back to acid rain and acid snow so I try to use it to my advantage.(maybe don't try this). Throughout the winter the snow will rinse the soil and if any salt build up the acid snowmelt will wash it away and lower the PH! Hopefully you live where there is lots of snow! lol

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We're getting closer but it was sleeting out yesterday. Last night it was 29F/1.6C and there was snow on the car. Still a little cold to grow. Actually a lot cold to grow. Got to get the soil out of the containers and gussy it up a bit. Getting ready to spring clean the deck.

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Had some unexpected company. Maybe the largest 'Tom' I've seen ! (y)

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I thought I saw a little green and sure enough...one of those seeded plants had dropped some seeds. Not sure having seeds out all winter is a good thing? Maybe it's like being in a freezer? Just more stuff not to do, kids.
This one...holy schnikes...the first set of leaves ain't even out of the shell yet and it already has trichomes! It's gonna be a beast. Maybe the soil is good? lol Well, if it survives all this weather it might get big by starting so early. In that case I will give it to @eazynz! With one caveat. No delivery, you got to come pick it up! Man, that soil looks good enough to eat! No sterilized potting soil for this guy girl them.

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Update: Now have 7 seedlings in one container and 1 seedling in another! What are they and will they survive? Only1 container had Afghan Haze and two with Early Queen. One container must be Early Queen and the other is 50/50 of either one. Kinda messing with my plan as I had not counted on these. 🤔

Longball
 
Wobby said:
Lowenzahn, a great green, root for beverages and fascinator for children and like minded adults 👍
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My kids (and me ;)) love it when the 'Löwenzahn' turns into a 'Pusteblume' :)
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Mt. Cleveland - named in honor of President Grover Cleveland. It's a bit of a below average mountain as President Cleveland is typically ranked as a below-average U.S. president, due to his handling of the Panic of 1893 and the legacy of the Dawes Act, which subdivided Native American tribal communal landholdings into individual allotments. This policy led to Native Americans ceding control of about two-thirds of their land.

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Mt. Cleveland

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Creepin' Charlie

Creeping Charlie, also known as Lionshead, is a low-growing, invasive perennial weed that is common in lawns and gardens. It's a member of the mint family, known for its minty odor when crushed or cut. Creeping Charlie spreads through both seeds and runners that root at their nodes. It's an aggressive weed that thrives in shade and can easily take over, crowding out desirable grasses. I didn't know all that. I just wanted to take a picture of the pretty, little purple flower.

Creepin' Charlie and it's pretty, little purple flower. Flower looks a little small to get a good picture of it. :unsure:

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Creepin' Charlie

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About as close as I can get for now!

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Longball
 
@musashi said: "To my eyes there are definite advantages to photo merging. Macros by optical definition don’t seem to have as much DOF like a 35mm has for instance. My 2 cents. Which FX did you end up buying @longball?"

Hi musashi! :)

I moved this over to the photography thread so as not to pollute Ptree's great grow/picture thread. I 100% agree that Macros by optical definition don’t seem to have as much DOF like a 35mm has for instance. Of course the other side of that 2 cent piece says that by the same optical definition a 35mm cannot take a good in-focus Macro picture. It's good to know these things if you want to take great pictures.

I thought buying a FX camera would be cut and dry but instead it led down a very expensive rabbit hole. I starting to get good with my camera(lessons and such) and learned that I had a crop-sensor camera. Never heard of such a thing. Once I learned about camera sensors and stuff I decided to get a 'full frame' sensor to go with my crop sensor camera. This would cover almost all types of photography. The first question to answer was; DSLR or Mirrorless? Most have stopped making DSLR's. Most camera research is going into mirrorless and phone camera's.

I spent plenty of time researching to make a reasonably informed decision. My photography teacher said he could help better if I had a goal or type of photography that I liked. Macro, Astrophotography, Portraits, Landscapes, Wildlife, Sports? I told him Macro Photography that I can blow up to poster size or bigger that will be tack sharp in focus. A Hasselblad Medium Format camera would do the trick....for $40,000USD! Nope!
Hasselblad has started making a DSLR for $12,000USD! Nope!

About this time I dropped and broke my camera and lens. The camera seems unfixable. My whole grow was on the SD card which I didn't get back for months. That why I am posting up pictures nowadays. Anyway, now I am up the creek with no paddle and no camera, what to do? Do I now buy 2 camera's? $$$$$ I had thousands of dollars worth of DX lenses. I could/should buy another crop-sensor camera as I had the lenses. The camera was a Nikon D7500 and the lens was a Nikon Nikkor 105mm 1:1 macro lens. I bought those on your advice so I guess it is because of you that I am on this photo journey! :p:love:

In doing research on a full frame camera I kept running into reviews saying how great the D7500 camera was for a crop sensor camera and the Nikon Nikkor 105mm 1:1 macros lens was Nikon's best macro lens. That combo takes beautiful pictures, even my teacher was impressed. You certainly steered me in the right direction there, musashi! Thank you so much! The pictures are so sweet that I said the hell with it. I went to Nikon and bought a brandy new D7500. I learned how to break it, now I'll learn how to not break it!

I still wanted a full frame and so many reviews voted the Nikon D850 as the best DSLR ever made. The next best camera that 'might' take as nice as pictures as the D850 costs $5,000USD more. So I went with the D850 and bought a nice Nikon Nikkor 24-70mm 2.8 lens. Sweet! Still in the learning stages of using it. I have a shit-ton of macro work with the crop-sensor keeping me busy. Another great thing about the D850 is it accepts the DX crop sensor lenses. All Nikons use the same lens mount so the lens are interchangeable. There is a setting on the D850 to let the camera know you are using a DX lens. That's great!

Ok, back to where we started with macro and photo merging. With macro you'll need to photo merge to get some depth of field. it's not that hard. The bud is not moving. Not hard to take a picture of something not moving? Next you take a number of pictures from different distances of something that is not moving and merge the photos together to get some depth of field. You can mount your camera on a tripod and rail. The rail allows you to move your camera in pre-measured increments. For example, each picture could be moved exactly 1mm until you get the final shot. The bud ain't moving and your picture distance is scientifically measured. Not rocket science, folks. You biggest skill needed is patience. And good software.

This macro picture was taken with the D7500 crop-sensor camera and the Nikon Nikkor 105mm 1:1 macros lens. It takes really beautiful pictures. In this case the subject was pretty much moving so focus stacking is out of the question and getting a decent Depth of Field would be a matter of luck. For this picture I used a single point of focus and set the camera to high speed shooting which is 8 pictures a second. As the camera is hand held, I am always moving a little and the subject is always moving a little. Hopefully by taking all those pictures at some point we will move together and get a in focus picture with a reasonable depth of field. This could happen on the first picture but it never does. To get this single picture took two sunny afternoons being surrounded by thousand of bees and I must of taken close to 500 pictures to get a single one. That, my friends, is macro photography.

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Sometime the subject don't mind sitting for a pose. Single slice macro, no photo stacking.

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Longball
 
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