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I was experimenting with the focus stacking technique to keep the background out of focus. This was the result.
Rose, rain droplets and leaf. A heart there too to all my Flickr friends that support my images thank you so much!!!!!
I took over 200 photos including this one on 27th June.
I love roses, and they are blooming in my city now.
You can see more detail on the original size.
"Which is loveliest in a rose? Its coy beauty when it's budding, or its splendor when it blows?"
(George Barlow 1847-1913)
I have a complicated relationship with the rose. When I was younger and more cynical, I disliked them - for the fact that they represented romantic love, and beauty, and all those other cliches. But I've softened, especially now we have our garden, which is full of roses of all hues and characters.
And in fact, if I had to pick any flower, I would probably pick a rose. Not elegant and effortlessly stylish like the tulip, or uncomplicated and girlish like the freesia, or exotic and unusual like the orchid, or perky and optimistic like the daffodil, the rose is very 'me'. It's neither in not out of fashion, just sort of there. It's not always pretty, but it can look rather splendid when it chooses. It needs cutting down to size now and again when it's getting too big for its boots (and is all the better for it). It's conventional in an old fashioned sort of way. It works really well alone, but isn't averse to company of its own sort. It's not exactly modest and can be a bit of a climber. It's high maintenance but thinks it's low maintenance. It also looks great in red.
2017 The International Rose Garden at Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park in Belfast is famous for its annual Rose Week event and International Rose Trials.
I would like to say thank you all my flickr friends and family for all prayers and support . My surgery has went well and I can walk better but can't sit to long so I don't know if I will be able to visit you or not but I do miss you all very much .I go Monday to get some of my staples out .Have a great day .Lots of hugs