Calla lilies, Cairns Botanic Gardens

eating winter buds.

Soon the blossoms.

Bali, Indonesia

Succulent enjoying the hot, sunny, dry weather. Panasonic GF1 with 20mm 1.7 lens with extension tube.

pučící kaštan

On Beals Street, Brookline, MA

Taken with my new Nikon 200mm macro

In the backyard garden this morning after the rain.

This has to be my favorite from the senior portrait session I did today. Her name is Sydni, and I have taken some photos of her before. She texted me frantically on Friday asking to get some pictures done, so I fit her into my schedule that was in no way busy at all.

Pinetum,Anloo

Austin has become quite the enthused photographer in the last few weeks at the ripe old age of 4.

Non-HDR shot taken of him taking a shot of me taking a shot of him ;-)

Some may recognize this pond from a pic I posted last year. If you can believe it, this whole place is the grounds of a single restaurant in the *middle* of the city (right across the street from the main station). *Very* good traditional Japanese Kaiseki food. We always make it a point to eat here when passing through the area.

Shizuoka, Japan

From the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.

Camera: Nikon D700

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)

Aperture: f/4.0

Focal Length: 50 mm

ISO Speed: 200

Exposure Bias: 0 EV

In bud it's this dark maroon. In flower, a giddy pink.

speckled bush cricket nymph - old enough to tell it's female now (focus not perfect, but feature clear enough)

They start young in Sa Pa

A rose bud on a rose bush in my wife's flower garden.

A few more from the beautiful UWC Atlantic College last weekend. Facebook album can be found here [goo.gl/yeIjT] and a blog here [markonthelens.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/uwc-atlantic-college...]

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Macro of the tiny flower buds of a skimmia japonica rubella bush

Spring is coming!

Pink buds on one of my wife's azalea bushes.

Girl taking a picture of fountain at Lincoln Center, NYC.

Was out after work trying to come to a finality or point of no return decision hence the name of the flower I found.

The spring wildflower, Trillium, in bud

budding

Budding Mallow in the Mesquite Grove

My field maple bonsai budding. Spaanse Aak in Dutch (Acer campestre). In my garden in the Netherlands.

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