The first figs ripened yesterday. With three trees I'll have hundred of figs over the next few weeks. Plenty for me and for birds too. I shot the photo above with my Pentax Option W90 camera. It is a good camera, not a great camera. But I am learning how to use it a little better. (Now that I think of it, the flower photographs I posted a while ago were with the same camera, so maybe it is a better camera than I think.)
Bruce shot the photo of me, below, using the camera in the water off of Dobbins Island on day six of the spring trip. It is a good camera for being around water, for being wet and for being bounced around on hard decks. When Bruce and I travel together we bring that camera plus one of Bruce's professional level cameras. When I sail solo I bring just the Optio W90 - a second non-waterproof camera would be too much to worry about when I'm sailing by myself.
But I think I've got the hang of the Optio W90 well enough that I should get some good photographs. I hope so. In the meantime I see that the W90 has already been supplanted by Pentax's new camera, the Pentax Optio WG-1. It is hard to keep up when it comes to digital cameras.
steve
3 comments:
Who's the white dude in the water?
The delicious and amazing world of figs: "...the fig as eaten is actually the infructescence of the tree, known as a false fruit or multiple fruit, in which the flowers and seeds are borne. Sometimes people incorrectly refer to it as the flower, but it is a hollow-ended stem containing many flowers, as one may see by splitting a fig open. The flower is not visible, as it blooms inside the fruit. The small orifice (ostiole) visible on the middle of the fruit is a narrow passage, which allows a very specialized wasp, the fig wasp, to enter the fruit and pollinate the flower, whereafter the fruit grows seeds." --Wikipedia
Baydog,
dunno.
Paul,
that is fascinating. I will think of that every time I pick a fruit off the tree.
steve
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