Film expired in 2010 shot on 3/19.

garden macro

Taken in a country lane in Kinver UK

A closeup of a Backlit Daffodil this morning.

Sunday afternoon flower

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art created from my photos

Several years ago, I took the photos that I used to create this. I got very low and aimed up, trying to have only the sky behind them, but no matter what I did, there were parts of houses, fences, or trees in every image.

Finally I just took the best of the lot & cut the backgrounds from around the flowers and leaves. (I didn't know about the background erase tool in Photoshop, so it took a long time to do it.) Next time, I might take a large sheet of matboard with me to prop behind the flowers ---something with a contrasting color so I will be able to easily remove it in Photoshop.

I saw a video of a professional photographer who has poster-sized backgrounds of pale greenish blurred images which he places behind wildflowers. (He probably has a staff to carry those things to his photo shoots and hold them behind the flowers.) I would carry one to my back yard, but can't schlep that kind of prop when I'm taking a nature walk by myself.

I combined several daffodils from several different photos and sometimes copied them several times and/or overlapped them.

Then I rendered clouds in the background in Photoshop and added some transparent white over the background so the flowers stood out against it better.

I couldn't have taken these on the early-April 2016 day I posted this. We had an unusually warm winter. It felt like spring (sometimes summer) most of Jan thru Mar, but this year Winter = Spring = Winter. It has snowed four times in the first weeks of Apr. All of my daffodils and tulips are brown and withered.

All images used are my own.

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Daffodils are everywhere. They spread on their own and the Lady Gardner has transplanted some. In the upper-right corner are some Hellebores.

Daffodils

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The daffodils are blooming in our yard already. Series of three pictures of the same daffodil only taken from slightly different angles.

so happy to see that spring is finally coming!

@ Sagamihara

Spring Abounds

Table decorations at Zephaniah Farm Vineyard

Longwood Gardens.

Many thanks to all who take the time to view, comment and fave my images. Enjoy the day.

I took this facing the sun early in the morning,surprised i didn't get any Sun flare

Caroline and myself went for a spring walk in Hythe.

This is one of the many Daffodils we encountered on our walk.

Nikon SB-800 coming in from the left, and a little low, at 1/64th power.

fugitive daffodils along the bicycle trail

Now we know spring is here. The daffodils are running riot, both in front and in back.

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Daffodil backlit by the setting sun.

and friends

Nikon SB-800 pointed directly at subject, from below the camera at 1/32 power.

Spring Daffodil

Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring perennial plants in the Amaryllidaceae family. Various common names including daffodil, daffadowndilly, narcissus, and jonquil are used to describe all or some members of the genus.

Wikipedia

The Cranberries - Daffodil Lament

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I was given a bunch of daffodil's yesterday ....I was so surprised to get

them at this time of the year, they are smaller than the usual springtime ones,

but ever so pretty,

I love them and I hope that you like this one I am sharing with you,

Our first daffodils in our garden this year.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

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Early morning daffodils.

The daffodils are up, too! View On Black

Macro. Taken with FujiFilm FinePix S1000fd

Quite a few buds, but this is the only fully-bloomed Daffodil in the large historic garden. Shown against some very tiny blue flowers -- some kind of Squill perhaps -- which are blooming throughout the garden, and the woods beyond.

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Hoping the daffodils will be able to come out of hiding soon!

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