Look but toxic so touch with care, and be there early. They bloom at night and wither at the touch of the morning dew.
After all that how could you not photograph them.
Best viewed large.
Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100. Finished in ON1, Topaz, DxO Silver Efex.
Suzy is having a good year. Brutal sun must agree with them.
Both photographs were finished using DxO Filmpack. I tend to bounce between multiple photo software when developing an image. It’s actually not much different than staying in a single app when they integrate correctly. No software does everything the best, so to me it makes sense having a few different tools.
People have a love/hate relationship with Lightroom (me too) but Adobe systems will play well with others. That may be part of their secret sauce, after all they do own the general market.
ON1 ‘kind of’ has decent integration. You need to figure work arounds and patience to use it though. They tend to break and change things with their updates. But like Lightroom you can work with most any file type which is required during integration.
The other photography software stop at RAW files.
Both photographs here were done with a combination of systems.
Specs; OM-1 (1), OM 12-100 f4, ON1, Topaz, DxO Filmpack.
The home was built in 1820. That’s pretty old. Charleston is at sea level so not many basements around town. It’s a short cut to the old carriage house and enslaved quarters. Looking around as you pass through you can get some interesting photographs.
I like old rockers, have one just like this…well a better seat.
An unexpected continuation of a previous article, The Stare. A few more from the other day.
Both of the Alligators below were young, certainly this.
We knew where to look for them since Ellen had spotted a large group of newly hatched gators here a week or so ago.
At this stage they grow very fast, I’m not sure how you would know how old they are.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II. Finished with ON1, Topaz.
These two Black-bellied Whistling Ducks flew in low over this marsh. I followed them in the view finder hoping they would turn towards our river dike.
Of they turned to a dry spot further from us. I took the shots anyway. The sun was higher and the humid heat was about to cook us.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 II. Finished with ON1, Topaz, DxO Color Efex.
The Killdeer are pretty common, I have seen them most of my life. I’m never surprised to see them in any environment. Years ago we lived in a condo, typical condo flat neighborhood. A 1/2 acre of open land was near an entrance…Killdeer lived there. 😆
This was taken along a dike when the marsh water was very low. I was hoping he would fly, but instead he did the typical Killdeer scamper. Fast runners and I missed it entirely.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, Leica 100-400. Finished in ON1 Photo RAW.
I do love an old big porch filled with rockers.
People sit around and ‘solve the problems of the world’, without ever leaving the chair.
This is a porch that came close to doing just that.
In 1777 the Marquis de La Fayette sat here after landing in the US colonies in the south rather than the northern ports where the British expected him. He went on to lead the Continental Army during the US revolution.
Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, was here often in 1779 after the siege of Savannah while being pursued by British forces. Marion and his militia hid in the swamps and marshes behind this plantation while fighting the first guerrilla warfare campaign.
George Washington stayed here during his tour of the original US following his term as President. He had meetings with veterans of the southern campaign here.
The poet laureate Archibald Rutledge was the last of his family to own Hampton Plantation. In 1971 the state of South Carolina purchased the land.
I’ve written about this before, it still amazes me after hundreds of years of history you too can just sit on the porch (usually by yourself).
A single bud, I think a Plate Hibiscus.
There are large bushes along the side of a swamp pond on the Magnolia Plantation property. I never really paid much attention to the area until recently.
The flowers are huge!
