Plant Photo with the 8mm Fisheye

Crumby was so hoping that the 8mm fisheye would be good for taking pictures of entire plants. But at first he was disappointed. Then he quit taking plant pictures because the weather got super hot with no rain for months on end. And plants generally lacked that photogenic quality that the average photographer is on the look out for. Or, to put it another way, the plants mostly looked dead.

Yet who is to say Stinky Valley is not beautiful? Here we espy lucerne (the French common name), also known as alfalfa (Medicago sativa), blooming vigorously up against the public school building. The nearby impervious cover (school building) and partial shade may account for this lucerne’s vigor. Yet how did it get here? Nobody knows. But it’s the only lucerne for many miles in any direction.

The pop up flash in combination with the 8mm lends a goofy effect to an already goofy picture. Espy that arm snaking out. That arm needed to fix to hold the lucerne steady in the furiously blowing hot wind that seldom ceases to afflict these miserable parts.