More of a party outfit

and another

Taken at Lanhydrock, Cornwall - fallen rhododendron petals against a backdrop of lichen on the wall.

A bit of spring in my own front yard. Delicate things don't last long in the back yard (we have dogs).

We have bump! (foal due in April)

Studies of petals. Shot using extension tubes. Lighting-some window and some household lamp.

Petals blow away in the wind. On the sidewalk.

Last time you saw this, it had flames coming out of the centre, and was part of a much bigger thing.

Its a petal, a part of the 2012 Olympic cauldron. One was presented to each country taking part. I wonder what others have done with theirs?!

White petal garden flower

Dropped petals of a Wax Begonia brighten the litter beneath a hanging basket.

Petalling in progress here on the bed of clay.

they picked off.

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The aisle before the ceremony

Bougainvillea

Motion blur of flower Petals.

The peony bush in our garden was blossoming in profusion. These images offer an abstraction of their petals.

I am still learning how to effectively use the Raynox macro adapter. With f/6.3 on a medium telephoto lens, the DOF is so narrow that the resulting image has only a sliver of the petal in sharp focus. The result is a very impressionistic image, not typical of most macro adapters.

While reviewing the final RAW files, I realized that the white peony petals were beautiful abstractions of human interaction and I labelled them accordingly.

Sometimes I like to just pick a single subject and try to photograph it from as many different angles as possible to see if I can get anything different out of it. I think this is my favourite from my rose snapping session.

Untouched

My Mum used to call people closest to her "sunshine" miss you Mum. xx

up close and personal with a rose

Beautiful white flower bathed in blue light.

2 concerts

A macro of lotus

À Montréal...