Recently, a friend from work [hi, Kate!] advised that she had shown this blog to another friend [hi, Kate's friend!] who also gardens and photographs flowers. We basked momentarily in their compliments, and then hastened to state that there is no skill involved here and the results displayed are entirely accidental. Although we are not too sure about that business concerning the monkey given a typewriter eventually writing Hamlet, we know from personal experience that any fool with enough patience and a digital camera tricked out with a good macro lens will eventually take a decent picture.
This is what we do. We take a lot of pictures from different angles and distances, unload them from the camera onto the computer, then look them over and hope for at least one good shot. The advent of digital has meant we are more often satisfied than disappointed with the results. Occasionally, however, we are surprised. Which brings us to this shot.
This is a flower from Arabian Jasmine (Jasminum sambac), a rambling vine. The flowers are quite small--a bit bigger than a pencil eraser--but produce an intense scent which just manages to stay on the good side of that fine line between fragrant and stinky.
This is a "lucky shot." Art by accident, not design. The only skill involved was in picking this one picture from a group of others.
Nevertheless, we are very proud of it.
