Open 'n' Shut

    My sister bought this house plant (no, I do not know its name - and it isn't Arthur). She then noticed its shutting its leaves at night and opening them wide on the morrow. 

     Intrigued I wondered, I could video-record a time-lapse of the sleep-movement (nyctinasty is the name of the phenomenon), but that would tie up the portion of the kitchen demarcating the dining room, preventing access to the latter, and doing so for the entire duration. That would only be in the way and no good.

    So I instead set up my still camera* with the aim (no pun intended) to take only two photographs and construct a GIF. Carefully noting the camera's placement and position, I snapped the daytime shot, then broke up shop, keeping my physical presence on site to a minimum.

    Thus the space was open and free for business as usual. 

    Later that night, turning on the lights, I returned to the dining room, and following my notes, set the camera as close as I possibly could to its original spot. I was off, it turned out, only by a few centimeters. Next, adjusting for exposure, I released the shutter a second time. 

    After the shoot, I then brought the camera to my PC, and tweaked the files, to further align and finalize the transition between images.

    Here is the GIF:  

 

 

 *In actuality, the "camera" I used, was my Samsung A35 Smartphone, so kudos to my recently acquired, Movo PR-3 Rotating Smartphone Grip Handle Rig, making use of the cellphone possible. Additional kudos to PhotoFiltre Studio and PhotoScape X Pro for the finishing software.