These lovely flowers only live for about a day or so, but they really brighten up the front of our house.

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, 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, 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.