Botanicals: Gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides). 

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These are placeholder images while my camera returns to rehab. I think the problem may be one of malaise. Here’s this amazing camera, brain the size of a small planet, and I tell it to take pictures of flowers and bugs. Call that job satisfaction? It also complains a lot about terrible pain in the diodes down its left side.

In the meantime, here are more imaging experiments with the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Scanner with GPP ® (Genuine People Personality) technology. They are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike real photographs. 

With apologies to Douglas Adams. 

Botanicals: Gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides). 

Please click to enlarge.

These are placeholder images while my camera returns to rehab. I think the problem may be one of malaise. Here’s this amazing camera, brain the size of a small planet, and I tell it to take pictures of flowers and bugs. Call that job satisfaction? It also complains a lot about terrible pain in the diodes down its left side.

In the meantime, here are more imaging experiments with the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Scanner with GPP ® (Genuine People Personality) technology. They are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike real photographs. 

With apologies to Douglas Adams. 

Botanicals: Pansy (Viola sp.).

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Etymology Note: Pansy is derived from the French word pensée, from penser, “to think.” In Victorian-era floriography, pansies represent a somewhat bland “thinking of you” kind of sentiment.