Christmas day

The camera on my telephone really struggling in the uncertain light of 0800 or so Christmas morning. The idea was to capture the fact that the flower shoot on the aloe is now starting to show its head above the parapet, is actually taller than the next door leaf. An idea which does not come off, with the shoot being more or less in the middle of the snap, as intended, but with very uncertain focus and a strange hood appearing above.

Looking more closely, I think the hood, what looks like a bud below and to the right and the dark vertical stripe below, together make up the growing flower shoot. With what looks like a parallelogram of shadow below and to the right actually being the next door leaf.

In this case, enlarging the full screen version on my laptop adds little. Perhaps in these lighting condition the resolution just isn't there.

Altogether a rather odd rendering of the scene. A salutary reminder of the ways colours move around through the many layers of processing involved here. Note the lightening of the green here, compared with that of the earlier snaps of the series.

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