flowers photos from my first beginnings. I used to take photos of EVERYTHING, but flowers are a favourite. I also used to be really into pink. Pink flowers, luckily, are everywhere!
did I mention my pink phase? yes. Here’s another pink ‘ne.
well, we’d had enough rain to make everything fresh n lovely. Call me grandma sunset- I just love the light on the path at sunset. I thought I’d had enough of flowers-but I squeezed another shot into the portfolio with ease!
At one time, Sacramento, California was known as the Camillia City. This macro came immediately after a brief rain shower.
A double Camellia. Camellia was named by Carl Linnaeus a Swedish botanist after Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel. This bloom occurs on an evergreen shrub in my garden
These shots were taken in various places in California but most come from right here in Sacramento, CA. PS I forgot about a TON of better images and must edit those for inclusion so here’s the deal: write down the names of the ones nearest and dearest to your heart and when I make exchanges, let me know if I nuked one of yours. I’ll try to replace it with another exchange.
One of the semi-lost photographs from an old trip to Capitol Park. Getting “semi-lost” is getting easier & easier when one has over 250GB of just flippin’ images! Anyway, there will obviously have to be additional calendars to cover the additional images so look for those soon. :-)
The effect is “coloured foil” in Corel’s PaintShop Pro XI.
Soft and glowing focus is from Corel PaintShop Pro XI
(Yes, I got help IDing the colours.) ;-)
Another view, in macro. I need to choose just one of the two with the same file name PA208178 so which one stays??? First five preferences get the call!
Two almost perfect blooms of beauty.
This beautiful rose was captured as it held tiny droplets of water in its lowest folds. I used a radial blur tool from Adobe PhotoShop Elements 3 to create an effect to compliment the direction and softness of the flower’s petals. Camera: Olympus IR-500
Another rose with gentle folds, this time left natural without effects.
This Heart Of A Flower was edited with a Gausian blur tool from Corel’s PaintShop Pro.
With just a hint of green allowed to remain, she stood regal in the garden.
One of the things most interesting about shooting flowers (for me, at least!) is finding the one(s) truly representative of the type and finding the most perfect ones of those. Sometimes, that means I have to cheat the composition a bit by manually moving the bloom into the best light or holding some other part of the plant out of the field of view. But in the end, I’m trying to shoot the best of the best and I’m not losing too much sleep over where my left hand was at the time. LOL!
More from the highly popular Hearts of Flowers series and some of the regular (non-macro) shots of flowers from around Sacramento, California and the California foothills & coastlines.
Georgia’s Autumn season brings beautiful camillia bushes into bloom. / /
Just so lovely, but not my flowers so I had to get in as many shots as I could, I will never see my lovely Camelia flower again.. / A close up showing the intricate centre of her delightful flower :O) / Stunning Art… / / Gorgeous card.. /
Anola Lizzard, camillia type kin to eguana. Climbs this tree, they prefer to be in wet climate like rain forests. He jumps, moves fast or slow. He turns from every shad of brown,yellow, to bright green. Harmless creature fun to watch. / Habitat-private Gourley Garden, right at the Foothills Parkway in Great Smoky Mountains of TN. We just happen to live near woodland, creeks, and added watergardens. They prefer to be in shrubs and trees. There are a lot around our home and a couple of times have gotten into the home. I would like to see more Anole Lizzards noticed, watched, photographed, and habitats created. Research says they hardly are seen drinking from large pools, their young can drown, on occasion they will. They are out there, Smokies are like a rainforest. / / Cannon Sure Shot S31S used to capture him. / JeffeeArt4u
Anole started to jump, when I was trying to take his picture. / Photo from my deck in Walland, TN Smoky Mountains. They are all around my house. They love shrubs, trees climbing and being wet. They eat bugs and are fun to photograph and watch.
there are alot of camillias and other such flowering trees in my back yard and mostly they are very still and very beautiful… this one however was subjected to serious camera movement and somehow it’s turned a pretty ordinary backyard bloom into a much more mysterious sort of image…. / . / . /
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