This is a great collage. I like the personalized "broken glass" structure, which must have taken you some time to make up. I also like the unity of golden brown tones and the subject. I just googled the Queensland Herbarium : that is an interesting service, I am not sure we have anything like that in France. My bet would be that the one in the middle is the Good one.
Is this a guessing game? While all look pretty I'm having fun trying to decide which is the "good guy"! Like Etienne I like the golden hue you've unified the collage with. I think I agree with Junko- the bottom middle one seems to be more natural to me- if that makes any sense! Lovely presentation!
@etienne Hi Etienne - thanks for your thoughtful response. The collage did take quite a while but it let me use the photos at their largest sizes - they lost a lot of their detail otherwise. The Herbarium service is wonderful - especially for grasses - they are just so hard to ID. Once we knew the scientific names of the introduced ones we Googled them to see how invasive they were and whether or not they offered a food source to our native animals. The top right one was the native and luckily all of the others turned out to be not of great concern and some were food sources for birds. It was a great outcome! :)
@jyokota Hi Junko - thanks for your response. The native is the top right hand one. The one you chose is introduced and does spread quite quickly. However, it doesn't make a huge impenetrable mass and it does provide food for finches - so we've decided to not worry about it too much. Thanks for your interest. Cheers Rob
@olivetreeann Hi Ann - thanks for your interest and kind comments. The Good Guy is actually the rather unimpressive one on the top right. All of the others are introduced - but lucky I don't think any of them are going to prove to be a real problem and some of them are actually good food sources for the small birds. It was a pretty good report back actually. Thanks again for your interest. Cheers Rob
Hi again Junko - I'm afraid I'm not really much of a teacher for all of this - most of these are very new to us too - we have so many different grasses on the farm - it's very different to the Gold Coast. The one you picked is commonly called marsh bristlegrass and apparently it is native o North America - so it's no wonder you felt familiar with it. And it does make a nice photo in the evening light! :)
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Lovely tones in this beautiful collage. I don't see any difference between weeds and cultivated plants. They can both be very pretty, only weeds are sturdier and need no attention.
@onewing Thanks so much for all of this info Babs - and your book is absolutely fabulous. You've done such a wonderful job organizing your images into the matching groups and I think the cost is really worthwhile for what you have ended up with - it's a wonderful showcase for your beautiful photos. It will be interesting to see the quality of the Snapfish produce -(it still hasn't arrived) - but I fear it won't be anything like this. Thank you so much again! Cheers Rob
@shutterbug49 Hi Shutterbug - thanks for your kind comments. I did wonder if the collage may look strange with the odd shapes so your comment was much appreciated. :)
@pusspup How true Wylie - we were pretty pleased with the feedback though - nothing too serious. Just as well too - we already have our hands full fighting African Love Grass and Whiskey Grass. :)
June 13th, 2020
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Hope it works. You will see the cover of the book on the screen and to the right under the cover there are 3 icons, the third icon is to view the book full screen. Then you click on the > and it turns the pages. My books are 12" x 12" HD, lustre paper and have about 180 pages in each book. Hard cover picture. I usually finish the book and then wait for a special offer of 40% off and my books work out about $270. I think the full price would be over $400. It sounds expensive but when you think I have about 180 pages and 365 photos on 12 x 12 in pages it isn't so bad.
Hope the link works to view the book, don't for heaven sake click on the order a copy or it could make your eyes water, ha ha