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Cellpic Sunday – Lincoln’s Sunken Gardens

A Sunken Garden View.

Lincoln, Nebraska.

During the winter of 1930-31, an abandoned dump site was recycled as part of a Depression-era city program for unemployed workers. Originally called the “Rock Garden,” the fountains and structures were terraced on 1.5 acres of land donated by local families. By the spring of 1931, the Gardens were in full bloom and open to the public. You can expect a future Travel Tuesday post of images captured in the garden, but for now, here’s a “teaser.” The Internet tells me after photo analysis that the plant with the broad leaves and orange-red flowers is 94% likely to be Canna ×hybrida Rodigas. Please correct me in the comments if I am wrong. I will severely chastise the AI at the site I used. >grin<

Captured with my Samsung S23U in late August, the image above is actually a two-image vertical panorama to allow me to get close for maximum detail and still feature the plants at the base of the display. Instead of a lower-resolution vertical image from my phone, the two images merged nicely in Luminar Neo and allowed me to create a 2K HD square crop for my Flickr site. After the merge, I used Neo’s Enhance AI to bring out the detail in the dark lower foreground and simultaneously bring out the blue visible in the partly cloudy sky. To view the image in 2K HD, click on it and it will link to the image on my Flickr site for pixel-peeping and exposure details.

I encourage fellow bloggers to create their own Cellpic Sunday posts. I never have a specific topic for this feature, and the only rules are that the photo must be captured with a cell phone, iPad, or another mobile device… If you have an image from a drone or even a dashcam, that’s acceptable as well. The second rule is to link your challenge response to this post or leave a comment here with a link to your post in the comment. Oh, and, you don’t have to post it on a Sunday.

John Steiner

33 comments

  19. I did pop over to Flickr to admire, but couldn’t comment because I’m not sure I still have an account with them. I do like cannas. We have the flame coloured one in our patio.

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