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I'm still tinkering with my new camera and getting to know it and macro was the next thing I wanted to address, as it has a very long zoom range (30x) so needed some thought about how to get the best from the macro function. For this series of photos I was just thinking about abstract shapes and the gorgeous patterns you get to see when looking closer.
I've always had a particular fondness for spring flowers, I love to see bulbs emerging from the winter soil with their promise of warmer times and longer days to come; a welcome sight after a seemingly long, cold winter this year.
I'm especially fond of snowdrops, I love their delicate elegance and over the years I've planted more outside and they're now starting to naturalise and expand nicely - I'll get some photographs of those as soon as it stops raining and we get some light - as they're just about at their best now.
The structure of hyacinths has always fascinated me, the way all the little individual flowers bud and open and then curl back.
Each Christmas I am usually lucky to receive some of the bulb kits that you plant yourself and this year I have a pot of very delicate and paper-like white crocuses, some pink hyacinths and a scarlet red amaryllis - that has put out two flowers, but rather smaller than usual - but gorgeous nontheless - and each a slightly different colour too. They all seem to have peaked at the same time and I took the opportunity to grab some photographs before they fade.
I concentrated on this occasion on some abstract images from framing in tightly so that I could enjoy the lovely shapes and structures of the flowers. One of the aspects of photography that I enjoy is that you learn to see things differently and whilst working on a series of photographs like this, you simply look - and are therefore able to enjoy - that bit more. It gives you a legitimate excuse for doing so.
4 comments:
These are stunning boo! Such a beautiful red and I love the one where you are so close the petals are translucent.
hey gorgeous, I SO love these photos you take of flowers...every time I see them in your blog I feel they should be on canvas in someone's living room...they are amazing!
have a great Sunday sweetie ;o)
hugs
hello gorgeous xxx
Thanks both - I've lost my photography mojo a bit lately and want to get it back, but without trying too hard. So I'm just taking photos of everything without thinking too much.
Im soo loving these photos, i love the 3 set of lush deep pink flowers, I'm decorating my room at the mo and these would look amazing.
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