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Pink Rose Swirl

When so many roses are blooming at once I don’t always notice the uniqueness of each bloom. I happened to see this low hanging pink bloom and bent down to take a look and noticed the magnificent symmetry of it’s centre swirl.

Photo 1: Pink Rose Swirl

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Photo 2:  Swirl to the left

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Photo 3: Swirl to the right

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Photo 4: Low hanging bloom

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Photo 5: Rosey Symmetry

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Tea Rose bush is blooming again

I had to do some significant pruning of the hybrid tea rose bush in the garden and was concerned about how it would recover in the drought. I am very happy to see that it is coping and producing lovely blooms again.

Photo 1: Tea Rose in the morning sun

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Photo 2: Bloom and buds

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Photo 3: Face down

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Photo 4: Rosey delight

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Photo 5: Rose opening

Tea rose 4Photo 6: Rose cluster

Tea rose 6Photo 7: Rose in Bloom

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Droplets, cobwebs and a pink Geranium

The cobwebs in the ivy provided a lovely settling spot for some water droplets. Clearly we have several spiders! To add a touch of a colour I added a pink Geranium. It was rather difficult to get the droplets on the web in focus as the slightest camera shake or breeze produced fuzzy smudges. Here are some of the results.

Photo 1: Wet spiderweb and pink Geranium

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Photo 2: Pink Geranium under web of droplets

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Photo 3: Sparkling droplets and Geranium

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Photo 4: Ivy, droplets and Pink Geranium

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Photo 5: Geranium on wet cobweb

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Photo 6: Droplet Shimmer

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Photo 7: Droplets on web over Ivy

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Pink Cistus – Rock Rose

Another beauty found growing along the Creek – think they have been cultivated though but they are still lovely flowers. Their petals appear crinkly like tissue paper after it’s used for wrapping and their orange and yellow centres contrast dramatically with the pink bloom.

Photo 1: Pink Cistus – Rock Rose

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Photo 2: Rock Roses back-to-back

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Photo 3: Rock Rose Bloom and bud

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Photo 4: Rock Rose cluster

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Photo 5: Rock Rose centre

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Photo 6: Single Rock Rose

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Photo 7: Rock Rose side view

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Photo 8: Rock Rose in bloom

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Butterflies on Thistles

On the creek trail not too far from our house I found a rather large thistle in bloom. While I was focussing on the bloom a lovely Painted Lady Butterfly came to feed off it and it was followed by some bees and a little Skipper butterfly as well. Thistles must taste good to bugs and they don’t seem to like sharing a bloom either.

Photo 1: Painted Lady Butterfly on Thistle

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Photo 2: Butterfly and Bee on Thistle

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Photo 3: Thistle bloom

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Photo 4: Thistle bud

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Photo 5: Two blooms, two bugs

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Photo 6:  Bee and Skipper butterfly on Thistle

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Photo 7: Bee on Thistle

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Photo 8: Butterfly and Thistle bloomButterfly on Thistle 3 low res

 

Graphic gradients

Every artist would like to create something unique. Something special and memorable that draws one nearer and is intriguing. In my quest to find that special something to make my images unique I keep experimenting. Today’s experiment is with radial gradient fills. Some of them I like, some of them I don’t but nothing ventured means nothing gained.

Photo 1: Peach pink Rose

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Photo 2: Blue Chrysanthemum

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Photo 3: Orange Rose

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Photo 4: Deep Pink RoseRose pink  V low res

Photo 5: Blue Iris

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Photo 6: Pale Pink Roses

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Photo 7: White Rose on Purple

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Hybrid Tea Rose

Another lovely addition to the garden is this hybrid tea rose. It has the loveliest pinkish-yellow-orange shading when it starts to bloom and then becomes the palest yellow to deep pink as it peaks.

Photo 1: Tea Rose in bloom

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Photo 2: Tea rose and bud

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Photo 3: Tea Rose opening

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Photo 4: Tea Rose new and oldRose tea 4 low res

Photo 5: Tea Rose single

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Photo 6: Tea Rose

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Photo 7: Tea Rose and companyRose tea low res

Sun-loving Gazanias

Striking Gazanias are also native to Southern Africa and are sometimes called African Daisies. My preference is for the striped versions as those are the flowers I recall from my childhood but this little patch of white and yellow was still delightful. They only open in full sun and that is when they thrive.

Photo 1: Sun-loving Gazanias

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Photo 2: Patch of Gazanias

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Photo 3: Single Yellow Gazania

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Photo 4: Single White Gazania

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Photo 5: Gazania Trio

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Photo 6: Gazanias blooming

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Photo 7: Gazania cluster

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Society Garlic in the Morning Light

There is a lovely patch of Gazanias flowering close to the school so I went out early to take some snaps. Unfortunately I was a bit too early and they needed more time to open. The Society Garlic growing close by looked so pretty in the morning sunlight though that I wasn’t too disappointed.

Photo 1: Society Garlic in the morning light

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Photo 2: Purple Society GarlicSociety Garlic 3 low res

Photo 3: Sociable Society Garlic

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Photo 4: Society Garlic Mood

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Photo 5: Society Garlic swayingSociety Garlic 5 low res

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