These lovely flowers only live for about a day or so, but they really brighten up the front of our house.
Archive for the ‘closeup’ category
Cystis
July 26th, 2008Gerbera Petals
September 23rd, 2007 
petals, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.
Another flower picture, I know – this is boring. I bought a bunch of flowers yesterday, mainly for Jude to brighten up the house, but it also gives me some practice of taking macro pictures. It took about 50 shots on a Sunday morning to get one that I really liked. There’s a very fine line at F6.3
take me to your leader
September 16th, 2007
take me to your leader, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.
This is probably the best hand held picture I’ve taken so far. I used the Tamron 90mm macro lens with a very wide aperture, so the depth of field was tiny. I’m surprised I managed to get it without shaking the shot, but this was attempt no. 20 or so and it worked out nicely. The previous ones were all over the place.
It’s a rhododendron flower, for the curious.
traffic
August 19th, 2007 
traffic, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.
Our boy’s toy, or some at least. Desperate weather around here for August, so I thought I’d stay in the house and find something colourful. These were just the job.
Poppywasp
July 8th, 2007
