These lovely flowers only live for about a day or so, but they really brighten up the front of our house.
Archive for the ‘flowers’ category
Cystis
July 26th, 2008Twins
June 1st, 2008 
twins, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.
I went out for a sudden walk this evening. Just was on the phone to her mother, the boys were watching Scooby Doo and I was at a bit of a loose end. Foolishly, I slapped the Tamron 90mm Macro lens onto the camera, but then walked down Gladstone Lane and tried to take some wide angle landscape shots – this didn’t work out. I’ll have to get back down there with the ’standard’ 18-200mm lens.
On the way home I found this pair in the hedgerow, so I played about with manual and auto focus for about 5 minutes until I got this. The DOF is a bit shallow which could be good or bad, it has it’s good points. I love the fact that the petals cling together in twos, as did the flowers themselves.
All in all, a nice change of pace from over the past few months. Work can only make you so happy.
sparkle
November 25th, 2007 
sparkle, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.
I spent a while playing with a bunch of flowers that I’d bought Judy. The pink Gerbera was striking, so I spent some time trying to capture that with my Tamron 90mm macro lens. The sun was streaming in the window, so there’s a few blown highlights on the waterdrops, but I’m pretty happy with it.
droplet
November 21st, 2007 
droplet, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.
An experiment in water drops on flowers using a Tamron 90mm macro lens.
hometime
November 21st, 2007 
hometime, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.
My favourite part of the day – going home. This is the Swansea train getting ready to leave Paddington Station.
