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Random Dark Photos

Simon — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:49:57 +0000

I felt like playing around with my camera by taking a few more long time exposures (ten to fifteen seconds) of dark scenes where the light source might be my glow brick or some other faint source.

African Sundew Plants

Simon — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:35:12 +0000

I have experimentally planted some of my African Cape Sundew’s offspring (drosera capensis) down by our garden pond where they seem to have settled in quite nicely with the thousands of flies that hover about around there. I found a broken pot in which to plant them, that I partially buried on its side so that a bit of water would be pooled in it, but also begin draining off if the level gets too high.

However, missing my previous artistic influences on the garden in the form of large bamboo sculptures, I couldn’t help but take this a bit further and decided to make a tripod from branches over the top and hang a white stone above them. Incidentally, the stone seems to warm up in the sun and attract flies to its surface.

(Here’s a zoomed-out shot of the entire lot.)

And a few days later!

Bottled Grass in the Earth Hour Darkness

Simon — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:23:07 +0000

Some grass had taken seed in with my glass bowl of Cape Sundew (drosera capensis) and rather than unearthing it and killing it, I decided to re-home it in a decorative blue glass bottle, where it has been growing happily ever since.

Anyway once I had replanted it, and during the Earth Hour lights-out business, I played about with my camera by taking a few long time exposures of it illuminated by nothing but a torch…