More
Information About the
Dean Conklin Plumeria Grove
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Signs really help. Unfortunately,
not all the trees have signs like the one on the right.
You can also see the wood-chip mulch
that forms a thick layer around all the trees. There are also a lot
of fallen flowers on the ground. |
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Mary Moragne (sign)
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The "accession pictures" tend
to show individual flowers. Sometimes you need look up. The
color of the flowers contrasts nicely with the blue sky. |
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Kauka Wilder
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Lei Rainbow
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Intense Rainbow
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Sometimes you need to wait for the
flowers to open. Think of it as an excuse to get you back to the
garden. If you haven't figured it
out by now, this garden is a rare find. It has way too few
visitors. It is likely that you'll be able to enjoy this collection
all by yourself. Walk
among the trees. Marvel at the variety of colors. Get your
nose up close and smell the flowers. If
you are there when the garden is at peak flowering, this experience will
be a life-long memory. |
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Jean Moragne
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About this web page
All the plumeria photos were taken with a Sony Cybershot
DSC-F505 digital camera. The original images were saved with a resolution
of 1600 x 1200 pixels. Over 200 pictures were taken in a little more than
three hours. Each new tree photographed first had either its identifying
sign or tree tag photographed. This eliminated the need to take notes in the
field.
| Most of the plumeria trees
have not had their lower branches trimmed. This is very
helpful. (Most plumeria trees in gardens have been trimmed so that
it is very hard to get close to the flowers.)
The easy access to the flowers meant that it was
rarely necessary to even touch a branch to bring a flower closer.
This is another feature that makes this garden special. |
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A black velvet background (attached to fome core) was used
in several of the photos. Most pictures were taken with a hand-held
camera. A tripod was used with a few.
The camera images were stored on a series of 4, 16, 32 and
64 mb memory sticks. It took about 20 minutes to download the image files
to a Gateway 5150 laptop computer (using a custom BAT file).
Images were examined using ACDSee32, a superb image
viewer. The file names were changed from the sequential numbers produced
by the camera to names based on the tree accession number using ACDSee 32.
The set of images was then examined. Poor photos
were deleted. Then the most representative image for each accession was
copied to a new folder. Again, ACDSee 32 provided excellent support.
Two panoramic pictures were taken. The individual
images (four in one case and five in the other) were assembled using LivePicture
PhotoVista. After building the panoramic images, they were handled like
the other pictures.
The selected plumeria images were tone balanced using
Micrografx Picture Publisher. Then each image was made into a thumbnail
(300 x 225 pixels). After resizing, each thumbnail was sharpened.
The entire image renaming, selection, enhancement and
thumbnail generation took just over three hours.
Finally, the 45 selected pictures and their thumbnails
were assembled into these two web pages. That has taken just over three
hours. Microsoft FrontPage 2000 was used as the page editor. John
Murray's list proved to be very useful in this process.
Note: None of these images is copyrighted; all are
placed in the public domain.
Please feel free to use them. Credit is nice but not necessary.
K. W. Bridges
Honolulu, Hawaii
