Hosta 'Neptune' 31 May 2025 photograph Fuji X-E3

 

Rosa 'Sombreul' & Hosta 'Netptune' 31 May 2025 - scan

It was about 11 years ago the my Rosemary told me, “Alex you cannot keep going to Argentina and bribing officials at the airport not to X-ray your film. You must get a digital camera.” This I did and Jeff Gin at Leo’s Camera sold me a Fuji X-E1. Since then I purchased an X-E3 and now I shoot both film and digital.

It may have been sometime in 1991 when Rosmary told me we were going to a meeting of the Vancouver Rose Society at VanDusen’s  Floral Hall. I told her, “Why have you brought me here to sit on an uncomfortable chair and look at 100 bad rose projected slides?"

It was then when I decided I would never actually  photograph  individual plants but only their overall presence in the garden.

By 2001 I had, on a fluke of inspiration inspired by summer boredom, that I scanned my first rose.

Now in 2025 I have come to understand that my absolutism is suspect. Part of this has been the inspiration of using my Jeff Gin gift, a Lensbaby for my digital camera that produces startling and lovely results.

Today it rained most of the day so few from the Vancouver Rose Society came to my open garden. Waiting for people that never came I got a tad sad and decided to putter with my Fuji X-E3 in the garden. I saw a lovely composition of the striking Hosta ‘Neptune’. It would have been impossible for me to remove the hosta from the ground and put it on the scanner. I like the photograph.

Letting go of my absolutism not to photograph individual plants of my garden further led me to obsessively also scan the hosta.

It was fun and it was a lesson learned. As  always somehow close my blogs – Rosemary would have smiled.

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scanned as slides with scanner lid down

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