One inch Cyclamen bud at Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory on Belle Isle In the Detroit River. Best viewed in large size. Taken with Nikon D300, Sigma 180 macro, and SB-600 flash ( off Camera).

SF Botanical Gardens

in front of the mexican restaurant on the ocean (el chorlito)

A red version (hue changed digitally) of my blue watercolor, done by request to match a friend's living room scheme. A limited numbet of ATC will only be traded.

Gladiolus in bloom in my wife's flower garden.

October, 2014

This is unthinkable for March in these parts. It's beautiful, just unthinkable.

October, 2014

October, 2014

she's learning learning learning, but it's not like she can't put the camera down

October, 2014

One of five images from Sharon Audubon Center in Sharon, Connecticut, USA, seen during a visit on April 24, 2017. In past visits, I've seen them in full bloom in early to mid-May.

A bush budding in the cool of a spring night in my backyard.

Taken at my favorite nursery.

First buds in our yard.

View On Black

Voigtlander Makro Apo-Lanthar 125mm f2.5 SL

April 24 115/366 St. Lawrence Riverfront, end-of-day walk

This young lad was a legacy from the years I spent working at a children's home in south London and who used to visit me for a number of years after I left my job there. Here we are somewhere on Dartmoor I believe but the mists of time have clouded the exact location.

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A budding flower.

October, 2014

bud of a red flower at lalbagh flower show

We got my daughter a second hand camera for her birthday and she is surprisingly adept at using it - I guess 4 years of being constantly photographed and observing 2 parents take them has rubbed off! She is rather fussy about where things are in the frame!

Agapanthus, African Lilly

October, 2014

Bibai, Hokkaido.

Back mountain is Mt.Urausu.

Mamiya Universal Press, 100mm.

Negative ISO100

Spotted the flower buds on my plum tree, somehow getting some groovy bokeh in the background.

Hibiscus, Australian Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne).

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062/100 - 100 Possibilities Project - I used to lay in the floor and draw picture after picture. Now I often sit at my desk to draw. I was better on the floor, though.

Gladiolus planted in one of my wife's flower gardens.

October, 2014

Rose bush in my wife's flower garden.

Spring 2011, a flower bud is opening out , this heralds the arrival of more colourful days

15-08-14 Taken with a Canon 60D using a Tamron SP AF70-300mm VC USD Zoom lens.