Off to the park while the conditions were good and headed for the red roses. This is what I saw..
Photo 1: Dewdrops on a blooming red Rose
Photo 2: Cluster of Red Roses
Photo 3: Flying Red Rosebud
Photo 4: Dreamy dewdrops
Photo 5: Dewdrop Frosting
Getting together with a portrait photographer on my usual walk about the local park was lots of fun. Specimen spotting and talking to the sun to get the right light was also rather entertaining for her 2 year old charge who happened to be carrying a lovely sprig of lavender given to him by a passerby. When I got entranced by the blooms in the rose garden I also got caught on camera…
Photo 1: Caught in the Rose Garden
Photo 2: Fresh Yellow Rose
Photo 3: Rosey blues
Photo 4: After the rain
Photo 5: Rose refreshed
The Gardenia plant at our back door is steadily producing more blooms. I often take a look at them or just get a whiff of their sweet fragrance. I wanted to take a pic of one as tomorrow is my Mum’s first birthday since her death and they remind me of her and my grandfather. I think this is the best pic I’ve taken of one so far. Seems apt.
Photo 1: Sweet Gardenia for my Mum
Photo 2: Gardenia at the door
Photo 3: Gardenia bud in the rain
Photo 4: Gardenia downward
Photo 5: Gardenia upward
The showers increased in intensity last week for just one day, so I took a trip back to the rose garden in our local park to see what I could see.
Photo 1: Raindrops on a red rose
Photo 2: Rain on yellow roses
Photo 3: Pink Rose in the rain
Photo 4: View from the top
Photo 5: Rust rose and Grey skies
Photo 6: Weight of water
Photo 7: Rear view of a wet rose
Photo 8: Wet red rose
The delicate blooms of the Rose of Sharon are on show again on the creek trail close to our home. Conditions were not great for photos this morning as there was some wind but that just gave them a surreal look.
Photo 1: Rose of Sharon
Photo 2: Bud and bloom
Photo 3: Side by side
Photo 4: Blooming
Photo 5: Emerging
Photo 6: Visitor
Photo 7: Opening
Stopped at the rose garden in the local park this morning after going for a nice bike ride. Some rather lovely blooms. Flower gardens are my happy place!
Photo 1: Yellow roses
Photo 2:Pink and yellow rose
Photo 3: Pink and White Rose
Photo 4: Variegated rose
Photo 5: Orange mini tea roses
Photo 6: Orange roses
Photo 7: Red rose
Photo 8: Pink roses
I am often out in the garden in the morning with my camera to take advantage of the lovely light. This morning a local resident stopped to ask me whether I would take some portrait photos of his children. I told him I don’t shoot people..only flowers! Think I am going to make that into a t-shirt.
Photos from the garden this morning:
Photo 1: Betty Boop dreaming
Photo 2:Â Better Boop old and new
Photo 3: Abelia small and pretty
Photo 4: Rosebuds
Photo 5: Variegated Rose
Photo 6: Fading pink Rose
Photo 7: Betty Boop and buds
Photo 8: Sun bleached Betty Boop
I have been waiting to get my hands on a bunch of these beauties. Found some at a local supermarket yesterday. Lovely vibrant colour and they just look so different to the yellow I am accustomed too.
Photo 1: Orange Sunflower
Photo 2: Looking up
Photo 3: Side view
Photo 4: Side by side
Photo 5: Together
Photo 6: Pair
Photo 7: Sunny bunch
It was a bit breezy in the garden this morning so not great conditions for floral photography outdoors but there were still some lovely blooms to snap.
Photo 1: Hybrid Tea Roses
Photo 2: Betty Boop opening
Photo 3: Betty boop bud
Photo 4: Betty Boop bloom
Photo 5: Gardenia at the door
Photo 6: Bud over bloom
Photo 7: Frilly pink roses
Photo 8: Geraniums in bloom
Brugmansia, more commonly known as Angel’s Trumpets are well suited to their name and look positively angelic in the early morning light. Do not be deceived by their heavenly name and scent though as they are deadly poisonous so if you eat them you could meet your maker. This large shrub with it’s impressive blooms belongs to the Solanaceae family along with a plant called Deadly Nightshade for good reason, all parts of Brugmansia are poisonous, with the seeds and leaves being especially dangerous.
Photo 1:Â Angel’s Trumpets in Morning light
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Photo 2: Sunkissed Angel’s Trumpet
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Photo 3: Salutation
Photo 4:Angel’s Trumpet bud
Photo 5: Heavenly form
Photo 6: The spiral
Photo 7: Angel’s Trumpet
