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Wild flower
« on: June 04, 2024, 23:26:45 »
Today I photographed this flower from Murcia

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Re: Wild flower
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2024, 13:11:48 »
Very nice close-ups of the flowers Arturo. They look like flowers of the Caper bush (alcaparra?). First time I saw Caper flowers was in Italy where they grew on a wall - beautiful flowers with a nice scent.   

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Re: Wild flower
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2024, 14:53:55 »
While the flower and the close-ups are nice, I never understood why members post these high MPix images. They have to be strongly -- and badly --compressed jpgs in order to clear the storage size limit (2MB) thus enlarging them in a separate window will  not give good quality. In fact, by reducing pixel size to max. 2000pix on the long axis and processing files accordingly, you can have images posted that appear tack sharp and have vibrant colours, yet still clear the 2MB upper limit.

Why do we have the storage limit? that is to avoid overloading our server and exhaust our allotted storage space, which would entail even higher hosting fees. We barely scrape by at present as the majority of the users seem to be fine with using the site and won't care about the expenses they incur. This is not a sustainable approach in the longer run and we will either have to clean out images or make subscription mandatory.

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Re: Wild flower
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2024, 16:03:52 »
Very nice close-ups of the flowers Arturo. They look like flowers of the Caper bush (alcaparra?). First time I saw Caper flowers was in Italy where they grew on a wall - beautiful flowers with a nice scent.
Thanks, Lars, it is indeed a tapenera or alcaparra flower, a common plant in the Region of Murcia, where I live, here its fruit is collected to be pickled. I put a photo of the most complete flower.

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« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2024, 16:06:36 »
While the flower and the close-ups are nice, I never understood why members post these high MPix images. They have to be strongly -- and badly --compressed jpgs in order to clear the storage size limit (2MB) thus enlarging them in a separate window will  not give good quality. In fact, by reducing pixel size to max. 2000pix on the long axis and processing files accordingly, you can have images posted that appear tack sharp and have vibrant colours, yet still clear the 2MB upper limit.

Why do we have the storage limit? that is to avoid overloading our server and exhaust our allotted storage space, which would entail even higher hosting fees. We barely scrape by at present as the majority of the users seem to be fine with using the site and won't care about the expenses they incur. This i not a sustainable approach in the longer run and we will either have to clean out images or make subscription mandatory.
Sorry, Birna, I don't have the facility and I haven't controlled the size of the images well. I think I did this last one well. All the best.

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Re: Wild flower
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2024, 18:35:08 »
Thanks, Lars, it is indeed a tapenera or alcaparra flower, a common plant in the Region of Murcia, where I live, here its fruit is collected to be pickled. I put a photo of the most complete flower.

Thanks for the confirmation and the additional complete photo Arturo - very nice and it's exactly as I remember the flower. It has a unique taste as pickled - I've tasted it a few times.