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| Mexican Fence cactus, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019. |
Easter afternoon was the first visit to Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens for both me and a new Tucson friend, "Stu."
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| Mexican Fence cactus, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019. |
Stu, a professional photographer, brought one of his cameras, as did I.
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| Mexican Fence cactus, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019. |
By the time we arrived at the corral surrounded by Mexican Fence cactus, my camera eye felt weary. But then Stu took a close-up of red fingertip buds that popped from one of the tall, slender cacti, and it was a wow! The textured red buds, and the sharp shadows they cast against that green, lush flesh of the cactus, ooh, I had to have them for my very own.
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| Mexican Fence cactus, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019. |
I took several.
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| Mexican Fence cactus, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019. |
I was a bit besotted.
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| Mexican Fence cactus, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019. |
The sun was wicked bright on the cactus corral and I asked Stu about how he dealt with that because the common wisdom, of course, is that this kind of light doesn't make for good photos. Or better said: This kind of light makes it more difficult to get good photos.
Stu said a past photography instructor told her students: "Don't be a slave to light. Control it."
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| Mexican Fence cactus, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019. |
A samurai photographer. I liked it.
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| Mexican Fence cactus, Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. April 2019. |
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