PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Duckweed

 
We had been so plagued with duckweed on our small pond that we just
declared the war over and lost interest in the pond. By late Spring, it
was a sea of green and might as well have been filled with cement. Other
than frogs, we could see nothing in the way of life in the pond.

js

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 Jack-
A few years ago, I put in a very small pond in my backyard.  When it
was completed, I sent off to a pond supply company for some Duckweed.
I think it makes a pond look natural, and Koi and Gold Fish love it as
a treat.

I think I paid around $24.00 for the supply including the shipping.

The fish ate the Duckweed in short order, and I'm now without any.

Your picture makes me envious - I'm betting you could put an ad up on
Ebay, and become a Duckweed Baron.

Myrl Jeffcoat
http://www.myrljeffcoat.com

 
Far as I can tell, these "photo of the week" postings are automated, mostly
for self-glorification, should he stumble upon a well taken photo. Walking
up to a pond, and pressing a button on a point and shoot does not make you a
photographer. Furthermore a year's worth of poorly taken photos posted
weekly on usenet does not meet the definition of a photo of the week.

-S

 Snooze wrote:


Wake up Mr Snooze.... the only thing automated seems to be your sour grapes.

js





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Then please enlighten me, exactly how do these pictures qualify as being
"photo of the week"?
http://schmidling.com/duckwd1.jpg
http://schmidling.com/duckwd2.jpg

I mean, besides walking up to the edge of the pond, and pressing a button on
a point and shoot?

The lack of resolution limits an in-depth critique, but here goes.
1. Appears to have some motion blur, a tripod would have helped.
2. Impossible to tell that it's a picture of a pond, if we didn't know it
was duckweed, we'd think it was a forest meadow.
3. if the picture was taken lower and closer to the foreshore, we'd get more
detail of the pond surface.
4. longer exposure would have improved the detail on the far left shore, or
the use of photoediting software.

As for the picture of the paddle boat, highly uninteresting subject matter,
and even less photographic detail, even the ripples are blurry. Could you
even tell that the person is scooping up duckweed, and not some fish? Clumps
of duckweed look more like clumps of algae.

The phrase photo of the week implies you'll showcase your best 52
photographs, not 52 haphazardly taken photos. Unless this was one of your 52
best photos.


-S