After many months of inaction, I finally managed to drag my self outside. Winter is over, Spring is spring and I came across this beautiful scene:
Archive for the ‘flowers’ category
Bluebells
June 18th, 2010Cystis
July 26th, 2008
These lovely flowers only live for about a day or so, but they really brighten up the front of our house.
Twins
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.
