Dustin Diaz Photography

204/365. Don't be a flower — but you can still enjoy them.

A few things. Today was a crazy day at Twitter! We officially launched our new Twitter Search Widget! They are totally hot and sexy time. And thus now you know what has been causing my photos to get uploaded later and later this last couple weeks.

For those implementing it on their own website, I blogged about a few of the undocumented features, like for instance, the fullscreen view :)

On another topic, regarding the flower photo. As most folks here know... I'm one of those "I don't do flowers" kinda photographer.

Well, there's a backstory to this that relates to work and security... meaning that anyone who leaves their laptop unlocked and unattended is a potential candidate to get email sent from their email account to the rest of the office that says "I am a beautiful flower"

Thus, this is good advice: Don't be a flower.

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

Christmas Eve is in just a few hours. Erin bought these great plant seed berry thingies and set them on the table. I wandered about the living taking pictures of everything "except" this. I filtered through all the pictures on the camera and decided to take a few more. This shot was one of those and it turned out well. Merry Christmas Eve Everyone.
strobist info: SB600@1/8, to left — ceiling bounce

now that I think about it, I never made a wish.

I had to pull this one out of the weeds. I thought to myself, "this would make a good picture...." so I pulled it from the ground (they were dying anyway) and put it up against the trees (I must have looked like an idiot taking this shot), and snapped away.

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