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Fiesta #2 --- Digital Camera Exploration

For the single object assignment, I decided to take a few pictures of my hen and chicks plant --- one of the few plants I've managed to keep alive for more than three months. Additional information of this plant can be located on the [|Wikipedia] website.

This is a medium shot from the top of the plant. Since I wasn't using a tripod the image was slightly blury. I attempted to sharpen the image using GIMP.

This is a close up. I was surprised by the detail -- I used a Canon PowerShot A410 and don't regularly use this camera for tight shots. I never noticed the hairs along the edges of the leaves until I uploaded the image on my computer.

This plant isn't very tall and only one bud peaks over the top of the planter.

And of course, here's one from the top. I struggled with using GIMP to crop this image. It's a nice program in that it replicates the look and feel of Photoshop, but downloading it was awkward and I had to go back to the GIMP website to download the help manual. I eventually was able to figure it out.

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