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Posted on April 16, 2017April 21, 2017 by Sharon

We went to Bendigo today – just because we could – and happened upon a huge Easter festival … markets, food trucks, rides for the kids, buskers, loads of vintage cars, and bus loads of people. We obviously hadn’t received the memo because we didn’t have our chairs – the streets were lined with people sitting on camp chairs or blankets, baskets of food and drink at their feet. It turned out they were waiting for the parade.

It was worth the wait! It lasted an hour and a half and finished with the longest Chinese dragon in the state (country/southern hemisphere).

Because we didn’t have chairs, we wandered around town and came across a conservatory … and in the conservatory were dahlias! (If you saw yesterday’s post, you’ll know why I was excited!). So, much sooner than I expected – here’s a close up of a dahlia!

Flowers, Photography

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Posted on April 9, 2017April 8, 2017 by Sharon

I’m away from home this week and so drawing from my archive. This is a flower I shot in the studio last year … I like the way the light seems to come from the inside of the flower.

Flowers, Melbourne

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Posted on March 15, 2017March 14, 2017 by Sharon

I wander past the Town Hall, and am greeted by sunflowers. Some of them are in the process of dying … but then again, aren’t we all?

Flowers, Photography

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Posted on February 28, 2017 by Sharon

Another shot of the flower from yesterday’s blog – this time with a slightly different composition. To me, this composition shows more of the delicacy of the petals and the tenuous nature of how they’re held together. Similar shot in one way, but a very different story if you look carefully.

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Flowers, Nature

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Posted on February 27, 2017 by Sharon

A return to a flower today. I was looking through my photos this afternoon and came across a series of photos I did a month or two ago that I didn’t like at all. But on looking at them again I have changed my mind. They’re okay-ish.

Here’s one example … I was trying to represent a flower from a different perspective – to tell a different story from the usual front-on shot with the whole flower in the frame. To me this shot is an explosion of colour and line and shape. What do you see?

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Flowers, Photography

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Posted on February 21, 2017 by Sharon

I feel it’s time for a flower. This flower is actually pink, but playing around in post-processing I was able to give it a very different look.

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Flowers, Learning

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Posted on January 22, 2017 by Sharon

I keep returning to the sunflowers – there’s something captivating about them: the depth of colour, the detail, the symmetry of each petal (or perhaps the lack of symmetry).

As I wrote in my long post on Monday last week, I enjoy the creative process. For me, photography isn’t capturing the scene in front of me – it’s not ‘taking a photo’ – it’s creating an image with a deliberate creativity that explores and plays and experiments with light and shape and form and style and depth.

What is photography to you?

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Flowers, Photography

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Posted on January 20, 2017 by Sharon

Another from my series of sunflower photos. Something to brighten up what has been a pretty dismal afternoon.

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Flowers, Photography

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Posted on January 18, 2017 by Sharon

Tim bought me some sunflowers and so I spent Saturday morning exploring them photographically. Here’s one of the many shots that resulted from that exploration.

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Flowers, Photography

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Posted on January 15, 2017 by Sharon

From the archive (2009).

Looking back at my early work has allowed me to reconnect with the elements of photography I enjoy the most, and has allowed me to find the excitement in creating images … an excitement I haven’t felt in a while. Stay tuned for new images. In the meantime, here’s an example of my early work when I was still new to photography.