So pretty!

Gotta love those Kodak moments. Thanks.

tj

Beautiful..the title of your post made me curious..the pics are outstanding..

Serendipity!

What a great picture!

I might take this pic & edit the background, blow it up & frame it but the colors so bright not sure where I would hang it in my house lol

Right! Maybe I will then :) love to see your grandmas house- she sounds like she has awesome character:)

Hi Rachel,

" I might take this pic & edit the background, blow it up & frame
it but the colors so bright not sure where I would hang it in my house. "

I see you have cropped your pictures at the sides to achieve Portrait formats. Portrait format pictures don't expand well here. If they actually are in Landscape format, or can be cropped into Landscape format, they can expand here when clicked on to fill a normal landscape computer monitor screen, like this example.

Click on it to see a larger version, and for a still larger version, hit your F11 key to hide your Browser's heading. You can get the headings back by hitting F11 again and close the big picture by clicking on the X in the upper-right corner.

You can subdue over-bright colors in post processing in most image processing software. However, I hardly ever do that.

Back to my zinnia patch. See you later over in the "It can be fun to breed your own zinnias" message thread.

ZM

Zen - thanks again for your info but you totally lost me!! Lol - unfortunately, your reply went way over my head :( when I post my pics on any thread in houzz it squishes them! I don't know why & it's annoying. I just recently found out if I click on any squished pic, wether mine or another's, it shows up normal. I don't have access to computer, only my cell phone. I thought I could take it to Walgreens to upload n edit the pic ?? I'm not good at photography nor do I understand photography language. I stepped outside saw the butterfly land on the daisy so I grabbed my cell, zoomed in close & snapped this pic. I apologize but youll have to clarify what you mean bc u totally lost me :( by the way what a BEAUTIFUL ZINNIA PIC !! Looks totally professional :) :) awesome job !! Teach me :)

Hi Rachel,

I wondered why all the portrait format stuff was showing up. I don't have a cell phone, and I am currently ignorant of them. But I suspect you can take landscape format on a cellphone. First try turning your phone such that the long way runs from left to right instead of from up to down. In other words, rotate your phone 90 degrees.

Landscape format means that the picture is wider than it is tall and portrait format means that the picture is taller than it is wide. This is a crop from your picture in landscape format.

If you were viewing this on a computer, if you click on it then it gets considerably bigger and F11 makes it a bit bigger yet -- like I explained above. But my explanation was for computers, not cellphones. Study your cellphone a bit and see if you can take landscape format pictures from it. It might be as simple as how you are holding the phone when you take the picture.

The uploaded size of that cropped picture is 1000 pixels wide by 800 pixels tall, because I upsampled (enlarged) the crop. Really, you should get a computer to post-process your photos. Your cellphone is taking great pictures. Can you print photos directly from your cellphone to a WiFi printer? Since I don't have a cellphone and you don't have a computer we are in kind of two different worlds. I wonder if Lizzie is also using just a cellphone.

ZM

Lol - I'm somewhat computer illiterate so Ive learned quickly to use a cell phone. I can do most on my cell that I could do on a computer which is pretty neat.- My son has a computer. Im sure he can help me print them out - I believe my cell has landscape format. It has a lot of settings in camera. I'll mess with it tomorrow to see what I can do. Once again, Thankyou for the info zen :) I haven't had much time to myself lately. That being said, I have yet to check ur response to my seed questions in your zinnia thread. I'll do that in am. I'm definitely ready to start germinating my seeds & there are many!! I recently finished tilling & amending 2 new gardens in my yard. I'm ecstatic to plant seeds & flowers in them- I do have to look up how to lay the stone pavers (on uneven ground) to edge one of the gardens :( to keep soil washing away from the rains bc it's on a slight slope. I only pray I do it right & it comes out looking somewhat professional!! I've edged gardens before but not on an uneven slope.

Hi Rachel,

I understand that you are very busy. Do take advantage of that Dahlia tip that Brock gave you, because almost all, if not all, dahlias suppliers are already out of that one. It's not inconceivable that a zinnia could be bred to look like that. Among other things, it would need some scabious genes.

ZM

Zen I did purchase some double white echinacea that look like platinum blonde :) but it's just not the same :( Looks like I might have to wait until next year.

Hey zen - do u remember where the dahlia tip is that Brock gave me ?? Ive looked everywhere & cant find it. I was going to check it out while I had some free time but can't find it. :(

Hi Rachel,

He suggested By Design Dahlias

As of this moment they still list Platinum Blonde - PB in their "Tubers Available" section.

ZM

Yes zen, she was willing to send me some !! I have to thank Brock !!! She was very sweet n willing to go out of her way to send me a platinum blonde tuber! however, we have restrictions on agriculture being shipped into Florida & she wasn't licensed to do so. Unfortunately, I'll have to wait until next spring but my platinum blonde will be that much more special.