Warning: Bees love flowers too!
Submitting to Jude’s Macro in the Garden challenge.
Category: Photography
012 April: Macro in the Garden
Submitting to Jude’s Macro in the Garden challenge.
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The flower’s head droops.
Its petals weighty
with age
and fragile beauty.
Captured.
Its age
and fragile beauty
linger.
This is the final in my seven-day series of posts featuring flowers.
I love taking photos of flowers. There are challenges to photographing flowers. I think carefully about the story I want to tell through the image – usually one of fragility or subtlety or beauty; how much of the flower I want to capture; the angle I will shoot at (eye-level with the camera, or from on-high, or perhaps down low, or from the back …); the part of the flower to focus on; how to shade/light the flower to accentuate its core characteristics … and much (much) more.
The challenges, as well as the technical elements and the processing decisions, keep it interesting for me.
I hope this little series has allowed you to see flowers anew – in all their fragile, subtle beauty. Perhaps it has also inspired you to get your camera out, seek out a flower or two, and make some technical and aesthetic decisions of your own.
If it has, please feel free to share your images with me – I love to see how others interpret/represent the flowers around them.
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We emerge from the cool of the rainforest to the dusty heat of a different type of Australian landscape. Lizards stretch full length on the rocks above the waterfall and soak up the sun.
And paper daisies lift their heads and spread their warmth.
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Imagine a morning.
The sky is blue and wide
and the breeze is wistful
and perfumed.
We wander under the canopy of the rainforest,
And then out into the light.
And flowers.
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It’s a part of a flower that often remains unseen.
We are captured by the outer, showy petals
where the colour is.
But the insides are worthy of our focus too.
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The rain leaves a delightful legacy on its sunny yellow petals.
In the afternoon they were gone – both the rain and the flower.
One had moved on to bring relief to other gardens.
The other lay scattered over the path.
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Icons of Melbourne #7
Melbourne is known for its laneways, and the artworks that adorn the walls of many of them.
Hosier Lane, just off Flinders St, is one of the better-known laneways, particularly for its art. While I am interested in the works done by very talented artists, I am perhaps more interested in the ways others use the laneway.
That’s what this image represents for me … the use of the laneway as a backdrop for a hiphop video being produced on a quiet Sunday morning.
Tim’s interpretation of Hosier Lane is here.
Musings from the cold 