manchua
Bleeding Hearts
Bleeding Hearts flower (Dicentra Spectabilis). This picture was one of my very first forays into serious close-up flower photography. I had just read a book on nature photography and was using a really bad Sigma 70-250 zoom / "macro" UTM (that's not ultra-tonic motor, but rather universal thread mount, hehe) on a old Pentax. Unfortunately, because film = money = poor student, I didn't take that many shots of this. It was taken on a slightly foggy day in my backyard in Munich. The background is actually the very out-of-focus back porch. From reading about this plant, I understand that there are two varieties of it. One is pink and one is more blood red. What I like about the image is the arch and the progression of the buds in size. I suppose that the image might be more visually appealing if I flipped the transparency because the stem enters the picture on the right instead of the left and people's eyes tend to enter a picture from the left and move right...or so I was taught.
Bleeding Hearts
Bleeding Hearts flower (Dicentra Spectabilis). This picture was one of my very first forays into serious close-up flower photography. I had just read a book on nature photography and was using a really bad Sigma 70-250 zoom / "macro" UTM (that's not ultra-tonic motor, but rather universal thread mount, hehe) on a old Pentax. Unfortunately, because film = money = poor student, I didn't take that many shots of this. It was taken on a slightly foggy day in my backyard in Munich. The background is actually the very out-of-focus back porch. From reading about this plant, I understand that there are two varieties of it. One is pink and one is more blood red. What I like about the image is the arch and the progression of the buds in size. I suppose that the image might be more visually appealing if I flipped the transparency because the stem enters the picture on the right instead of the left and people's eyes tend to enter a picture from the left and move right...or so I was taught.