Four years ago, I shared with you shots of lively lilacs along a wall here in my San Diego neighborhood of University Heights. What those photos lacked was context, which the Featured Image gives quite dramatically.
This afternoon, while talking to one of my sisters by phone, I came upon a young woman shooting photos of something behind me. I turned to see. Lilacs. Sis loves lilacs. So I pulled out Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, pointed, clicked, and texted. She was delighted.
The other shooter moved into the alley, and she is visible but not crisply and somewhat distortedly (because of the ultrawide-angle lens). Vitals: f/2.2, ISO 50, 1/1500 sec, 13mm (film equivalent); 1:19 p.m. PDT. Composed as captured.