Effectivenessity

Sometimes I take pictures because something sticks out. Like this orange saw palmetto branch in among all the green ones. And then sometimes I get the picture on my screen and decide what's obvious to me out in the wild doesn't seem so obvious when it's digitized.

So here's another version that I made using Picasa. Very cool. Lots of fun. Almost postcard worthy.

And then here's one more version that I used Picasa's Picnik software to play with. Yow!

Duck, duck, duck, goose!

I've finally figured out what the deal is with the macro setting on this camera. It focuses only exactly in the middle of the picture frame, which is maddening for someone like me, who likes to offset her subjects according to the rule of thirds. But at last I was able to get some pictures using the macro that were in focus. Then I just cropped them to offset the flowers (and the grasshopper). The last photo is a bit indelicate. Just a heads up.