Front porch fuchsia

[Adsos Letter]

Sitting on the front porch yesterday, enjoying the rain, and this caught my eye. Spring is coming.

[Lindsay]

1. Pretty.

The red and white ones are my favorite.

[Adsos Letter]

2. They are.

I only recently learned how many varieties and colors of fuchsias there. This year I'm going to ask the nurseryman to order in some of the pure white, and the peach toned ones.

I have one that has miniature purple and red blossoms, but it won't bloom until later in summer.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. How lovely, my dear Adsos Letter!

The photo is wonderful, full of sharp crisp details and colors!

Thanks for sharing!

[Adsos Letter]

4. Thanks, Peggy.

I think I see better on rainy days.

[magicarpet]

5. Two feet of snow on the ground up here...

.... it is a ways before we get to enjoy flower blooms.

Thanks for sharing yours.
Nice photo.

[Adsos Letter]

11. We're getting some pretty good rain.

With more on the way through next week. Other than that, our temperatures are starting to drift into the 70's.

Thanks for looking and commenting.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Excellent photo: composition, lighting, timing

Photoshop out the fuzzy orange ring top center, and darken the distracting fuzzy white triangle top right.

I'd likely also lighten it slightly, especially the highlights, to make the white of the fuscia whiter.

Then it would be just about perfect.

[Adsos Letter]

12. Thank you for the critique.

Constructive criticism is always welcome, and was done a lot more in this group in the past.

[Adsos Letter]

19. I need to remember to check images against my cell phone.

On my computer the white looks great, as does the overall exposure and contrast, but on the I-phone 7+ screen it looks as you described.

This is the frustration of displaying on screens of different quality, and that are probably not fine tuned in the same way. I never seem to get the gamma, gray, etc. dialed in correctly on my laptop.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. I'm viewing on a calibrated & profiled large hi-res desktop display. That should be your standard.

If it looks as I describe here and on iPhone, then I think your computer display is set more for game play than for photography.

I calibrate the display and the photos look almost the same on this and my Samsung pocket computer (with phone app) and my tablet.

[irisblue]

7. I have had many hanging baskets of fuchsias. Soo beautiful. Thanks for the picture

[Adsos Letter]

13. I have four fuchsia plants at the moment.

They did really well on the porch this past winter, even when our temps dropped. I'd really like to put one in the ground but I'm afraid our winter frosts would kill it.

[calimary]

8. Dayum! Looks like a picture postcard!

I love fuchsias! This is beautiful, Adsos Letter. Thanks for posting it for the rest of us!

[Adsos Letter]

14. Thank you, calimary.

Fuchsias seem to be plants that most people like. I would really like to get some of the more pastel varieties.

[handmade34]

9. excellent photo

...please send some of your spring this way












as for here... I can't clean the back deck because there is no place to put the snow... and it keeps coming...

from my kitchen window...

[Adsos Letter]

15. That's a lovely image.

The snow on the roof, and the red against all of that white stuff.

We're just getting our rains and hoping that they continue for awhile, as we didn't get much over the past fall and winter.

[matt819]

10. Obviously not in New England

Sitting on the porch requires shoveling. And parkas.

Flowers? Now? Not quite.

[Adsos Letter]

16. San Francisco Bay Area.

I don't think our temps dipped below the 30's this past winter, and it was rare when they did.

One of my daughters lives down in San Diego (I'm heading down there next week for a few days) and when it drops into the 50's people start to panic.

Good luck, and I wish for you a lovely spring.

[CrispyQ]

17. I was expecting a photo of a hot pink front door.

I've been in DIY mode & everything is about painting lately. Lovely photo.

[Adsos Letter]

18. LOL!

I was a painter for 35 years. Have fun with it.

[Mira]

21. OMG - just now saw this

perfect placement, and wonderful photograph. Love the muted but live color.

[Adsos Letter]

22. Thanks, Mira.

It was a natural arrangement, just caught my eye as I was sitting there.