NYC Mini-Meetup

digital flower · Apr 13, 2006

I recently had the pleasure of meeting LaFoto and her husband in NYC. We took a drive up to the Bronx. I didn't have much time but it was a lot of fun. LaFoto is as warm and friendly as her online personality! Here are a 2 pictures from our trip to Wave Hill.

Calliope · Apr 13, 2006

Great shots! I hope ya'll had a lot of fun!

Rob · Apr 13, 2006

Cool shots - even more so when you've met the subject! Is that you in the second one on the right??

Rob

mentos_007 · Apr 13, 2006

Rob said:
Cool shots - even more so when you've met the subject! Is that you in the second one on the right??

Rob

ditto

Chiller · Apr 13, 2006

Soo cool. Thanks for sharing.

Antarctican · Apr 13, 2006

Nice pic...thanks for sharing. Hmm, Lafoto wearing green, who woulda thought?

aprilraven · Apr 13, 2006

hey lafoto, your as bad about green as i am black...???

good shots of new friends...gald ya'll all met...

LaFoto · Apr 13, 2006

Heya, cool, here they are, the pics from our prior-to-the-big-one-mini-meet-up!

Well, yes, I guess I am as bad about the green as you are about the black, though I have a RED winter coat, and I ought to have brought THAT. The New York weather was way too cold for the clothes that we had brought, brrr!
And that was a short but sweet and very nice mini-meet-up with Chris aka Digital_Flower_Pictures and he took us to this wonderful little botanic garden in the west Bronx where it is beautiful and nice and very peaceful .. and some of the flowers were even in bloom, not only in the hothouse, also outside. Not many as yet but some. I took some pics... am busy working on them, soon they should be up

. Also some of Chris aka Digital_Flower_Pictures ... I have a zoom lens, you know :greenpbl:

And John did a very good job, I must say. Thanks again to John (Chris's friend who works in that garden and who took the photo of the three of us).

digital flower · Apr 14, 2006

Rob said:
Cool shots - even more so when you've met the subject! Is that you in the second one on the right??

Rob

Yeah, thats's me aka Farmer Chris :lol:

LaFoto I think you look quite stylish in green

Here are a couple more pictures from the meet up :lol:

LaFoto · Apr 14, 2006

Here are mine, which never show me, though... so it is mostly just Andreas and Chris in talk about magnolia trees and star magnolias and such things

(This is not John, who kindly took the photo of the three of us with Chris's camera, and who knows our area here in Germany and has been through here, a pity that he is in none of our photos)

I never caught you looking, Chris... sheesh.

But I have MANY flower pics from this mini meet-up

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Wanna see, too?

digital flower · Apr 15, 2006

LaFoto said:
But I have MANY flower pics from this mini meet-up .
Wanna see, too?

Please post them. I would like to take a look.

LaFoto said:
This is not John, who kindly took the photo of the three of us with Chris's camera, and who knows our area here in Germany and has been through here, a pity that he is in none of our photos)

That's Scott Canning the director of horticulture. A very nice person and accomplished gardener. He is from Connecticut, too.
This John in the photo below. You know who thr others are :wink:

LaFoto · Apr 16, 2006

Ah, good, you did take a photo of John and the two of us after all. How nice. I really liked him! And to know that he's at least been through our village while on the train from Hamburg to Bremen is quite something

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Flower pics then? Will do ... just a little later, OK?

LaFoto · Apr 16, 2006

Ah, ok. "Later" is now already, I can just about squeeze in the resizing, uploading and linking process for the flower pics I've got (there actually are more, but not all came out in the way I had hoped they would

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Two examples from the beautiful cactus collection there in Wave Hill, the upper two done with the Powershot, and the third and all the following with the 350D and the 300mm lens, either in the macro function or just so...

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Greenhouse plants

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One of the miniature tulips in the wild garden

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Pink star magnolia

digital flower · Apr 17, 2006

LaFoto, thanks for sharing. These are wonderful. If I had to choose one it would probably be the second yellow cactus. The pink Hellebore (#5) is very nice also.

Aoide · Apr 17, 2006

Great to see these photos from the mini-meetup. Lafoto picture #2 of the cactus is really great. All your flower pictures are good, but #2 is a stand out.