A rose I picked a few days ago.

Grampa Don

Grampa Don

Yep, that's me
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RadishRose said:
Save the rosebush!

Are you an artist, @Grampa Don ?
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That's a tough old rose bush. I can't even remember when we planted it.

I have no artistic talent. My Dad took up oil painting in his later years, and some of his work is nice. Both of my sons are very talented. But, it skipped me. I could botch up a paint by numbers.
 
@ RadishRose Those are classics. You don't see the lever fills much anymore. Now there are several different ways to fill a fountain pen.

I bought a cheap Chinese pen a little over a year ago, and I enjoyed using so much I soon bought another, then another, then another, etc. If I start looking on E-bay, I'll see one and go "OOO that's pretty, and only a couple bucks." Then I got a couple as gifts. So, now I have 22 of them.

And, then there are inks. You wouldn't believe how many colors there are. I only have 6 of those and one on order. But, I'm small potatoes as a fountain pen collector, and mine are all cheap. Some people have hundreds.

Here's a forum I belong to if you're curious about the hobby.
 
Grampa Don said:
@ RadishRose Those are classics. You don't see the lever fills much anymore. Now there are several different ways to fill a fountain pen.

I bought a cheap Chinese pen a little over a year ago, and I enjoyed using so much I soon bought another, then another, then another, etc. If I start looking on E-bay, I'll see one and go "OOO that's pretty, and only a couple bucks." Then I got a couple as gifts. So, now I have 22 of them.

And, then there are inks. You wouldn't believe how many colors there are. I only have 6 of those and one on order. But, I'm small potatoes as a fountain pen collector, and mine are all cheap. Some people have hundreds.

Here's a forum I belong to if you're curious about the hobby.
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Thanks, Don. The forum you posted doesn't show a lot unless you join, but I liked looking around a bit.

I don't want to collect pens, but what I saw on Pinterest today just delighted me! I feel something drawing me in.........

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Close-up of a rose from May 2021 at the colorful 5.5 acre San Jose Municipal Rose Garden that has nearly 200 varieties of roses. Peak bloom is usually last two weeks of April through the first two weeks of May so is just a month away. I expect to work a number of any near still mornings with my Benbo tripod mounted A6000 with a 56mm Sigma, close-ups processed with focus stack blending. This is a downsized crop from a 3800x4100 pixel full image that shows the whole pink rose blended in Photoshop from a combination of 35 individual shots in order to maximize sharpness.
 
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Grampa Don said:
@David777 Great image. My shot was taken with my Canon A520, 4 megapixel, hand held with no processing. I got it for $12 on E-bay and repaired it.
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It is something how good a 4 megapixel picture can look. The feeling is that more pixels make a better picture, but my 20 megapixel camera's pictures are not that much different from my 4 megapixel camera.
 
David777 said:
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Close-up of a rose from May 2021 at the colorful 5.5 acre San Jose Municipal Rose Garden that has nearly 200 varieties of roses. Peak bloom is usually last two weeks of April through the first two weeks of May so is just a month away. I expect to work a number of any near still mornings with my Benbo tripod mounted A6000 with a 56mm Sigma, close-ups processed with focus stack blending. This is a downsized crop from a 3800x4100 pixel full image that shows the whole pink rose blended in Photoshop from a combination of 35 individual shots in order to maximize sharpness.
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Spectacular!
 
Chet said:
It is something how good a 4 megapixel picture can look. The feeling is that more pixels make a better picture, but my 20 megapixel camera's pictures are not that much different from my 4 megapixel camera.
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It kind of depends on how much you crop and the final image size. For snapshots and computer screens, 4 is OK. Here is a shot with a 2 megapixel phone camera. After a little sharpening, it's not great, but the lens probably isn't either.

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I have an early Kodak DC-120 digital camera with 1.2 megapixels. Here is a shot taken with it.

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Grampa Don said:
It kind of depends on how much you crop and the final image size. For snapshots and computer screens, 4 is OK. Here is a shot with a 2 megapixel phone camera. After a little sharpening, it's not great, but the lens probably isn't either.

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I have an early Kodak DC-120 digital camera with 1.2 megapixels. Here is a shot taken with it.

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I like that one a LOT!! Oink, oink! šŸ˜‰
 
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