Comments on: Chestnut on a Bed of Moss (with desktop-background bonus)

by: fish

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:35:00 +0000

this is a powerful lens , but in the first pic ,it seems have a poor performs when the view is out of the focus ，may be beacause of the ISO 8oo.

big ISO cause CCD noise, especially when ISO is larger then 800.

To let the photo more like a Painting, i think you should turn down the ISO

by: Peter

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:35:58 +0000

Grandma Friedl’s absolutely right, of course.

‘Wort’ seems to imply a medicinal use, as in the “doctrine of signatures”, whereby a plant that was thought to resemble a diseased bodily organ was considered a cure for its ills - lungwort, liverwort (some sorts of liverwort are big flat things, not at all like mosses) and, presumably, spleenwort and stitchwort. Funny, we seem almost to have come back to the Moss Gardening book ;o)

I presume “you kids” didn’t drink your milk, either!

by: Grandma Friedl

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:13:51 +0000

Jeff, he said “Liverworts”, “not Liverwords.” Oh, I see, yes, “wort” makes it sound sooo much less unappealing —Jeffy (”Wort” means “plant” and usually follows a descriptive word…”Lungwort”, “Spiderwort” etc. ) (Is that right, Peter?) I remember how all you kids hated liver of any kind and fooled me into thinking you ate what was served by dropping it into your milk when I wasn’t looking. I learned this many, many years later… Peter and I seem to like the same things. I too liked the shot of the steps…reminded me of those I built down b y the creek years ago.

by: Peter

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:24:39 +0000

Now that’s what I call service! Many thanks.

by: Peter

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:34:17 +0000

Nope, mosses are mosses and ferns are ferns! At least some of this is mosses, but some may be leafy liverworts. Plenty of ferns in the second photograph.

Those mysteriously inviting steps may become my new desktop - it’s a lovely, mesmerizing, enticing photograph — and my natural habitat!

“Leafy Liverwords?” I’ll stick with calling them “moss”

I went ahead and added desktop-background sizes (both standard and widescreen) for your downloading pleasure. —Jeffrey