I had a few things to run over to town this morning. While there I found seven years' worth of Cook's Illustrated in hard-bound volumes at the Salvation Army Thrift Store. At 50-cents each, I couldn't pass it up.
Anyway, on the return trip I came by way of Nordic Ave. and walked along the top of the beach, right next to the road. I wanted to see how the wildflowers were coming along this year. I found that they were just beginning to bloom, with a few plants here and there in full bloom.
I didn't have a decent camera with me; however, I did have my BlackBerry device with a built-in (arguably) 1.9 megapixel camera. In a pinch, you make do with what you have. Mainly I wanted to record the locations for some of the interesting flora so that on the next good day I could take my real cameras for better photos.
The BlackBerry photos are not great, but they are usable. They do seem to require quite a bit of color, brightness, shadow, contrast correction, and noise reduction. They also look a whole lot better when the resolution is reduced to about 800x800 (or less). I reduced the ones posted here to 450x600.
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