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My texture created withDistressed FX Plus and iColorama.
The skeletal remains of Hydrangeas offer beautiful shapes and textures to photograph long after the flowers have faded away.
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Taken in St. Alberts Botanical Garden in Edmonton, while visiting Monique.
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Macro Mondays theme this week: One colour
The brown tones of the dried hops remind me of pumpkin spice and everything nice about fall! HMM! Happy Macro Mondays!
Inspired for Macro Mondays. This week's theme: One colour
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Visiting Joshua Tree National Park, I loved all the shrubs and bushes that continued to have their dried flowers on their stems. While their colors may not be bright at this stage, the flowers are clearly visible on the many bushes in this picture.
Quite a number of Joshua Trees can also be seen in this photo.
I discovered a new way to photograph flowers - in ice!
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I am going on vacation tomorrow so will be off Flickr for awhile. See you when I get back!
Posted for Window Wednesday
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.
― Emily Dickinson
This picture selected for the theme branches and twigs in Smile on Saturday. Hope you enjoy. Happy Smile on Saturday for all of you. I took this shot just around the corner with a special trio plan lense. (See tags)
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Deep Dream Generator, JixiPix Impresso Pro and Pastello.
Some of the Hydrangeas are starting to change from their deep purple-blues to warm shades of yellows, pinks and greens. No amount of watering is going to reverse that inevitable decline, especially with the hot August weather daring me to use too much water.
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I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.
― Steve Goodier
There comes a time when nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love.
~Rumi
Some of you asked how the wedding went that I photographed a short time ago. It was so much fun and exceeded my expectations. I hope to be able to post a few photos from the wedding, with their permission, once I've delivered the finished images to the bride and groom on the weekend.
This was taken at Fort Casey State Park in Washington State last week.
I just happened to look up and several feet above me, I noticed that a dried bougainvillea blossom had dropped onto the leaf. I thought it was was quite pretty so I decided to take an image of it.
Background texture from Topaz Studio.
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There is nothing in the world that can be considered new. What really matters is our way of considering and seeing things around us. it is our vision of things that makes the difference
my dahlia blooms wilt quickly but the silver lining is their beauty even "past their expiration date"
33:52 Every day item
I hope this works for the theme...it's kind of my own interpretation. One of the most common flowers, I think, are gerbera daisies; we see them in every grocery store and florist and even though they are photographed, they are often ignored for more elegant flowers. So I bought a few gerbera daisies, and when their life was over, I decided to see what the petals looked like when I pulled them out. I had no idea they had fluffy threads (the seedheads) at the inside edge! I left them sitting around for awhile, and the threads opened up even more as the petals dried.
When we were away visiting family in early August, my son gave me his Kenko extension tubes, which I had been wanting to buy for my macro lens, and I was so pleased. I set up the tripod right close to my lightbox and dropped the tiny petals on a glass cutting board inside the lightbox. And this is the result. To me, it was simple gerbera daisies turned magically into something totally different.
Taken last year after a frosty night which finished off the cosmos flowers. At the moment everything on my balcony is still trying to hang on.
"ANYONE CAN LOVE A ROSE, BUT IT TAKES A LOT TO LOVE A LEAF. IT'S ORDINARY TO LOVE THE BEAUTIFUL, BUT IT'S BEAUTIFUL TO LOVE THE ORDINARY." - MJ Konan
My roses were beautiful for such a long time. Then as they dried up they retained their shape. Since our club has the theme of Wabi Sabi, I took a few shots of them in that state before peeling away a couple of layers. That’s when the more vibrant colors appeared in the center layers. One of the dried up leaves fell off the stem as I was peeling the layers of the petals on the bloom, so I left it under the rose. For Sliders Sunday, I added a few effects to go with the quote. HSS