My neighbor, noted blogger and photographer Cindy Dyer, has a really cool garden on the side of her townhouse. Earlier this year I took a lot of photos of flowers and insects there, including one of my most popular postings on a mysterious creature on the lavender plant.
I hadn’t checked out the garden in a month or so and was surprised to see that some of the flowers were still blooming yesterday. I was especially drawn to a flower that looks a little bit like a sunflower—I am not sure exactly what it is. I tried to shoot different blooms from different angles to capture a sense of the depth of the flower. I don’t usually use flash with flowers, but I made some attempts with my built-in flash cranked down low,which I think accounts for the black background in some images.
Here are some of my favorite images of these flowers. They look like they might have been shot with a macro lens, but I was actually using a telephoto lens.
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I like the black background.
Thanks,Lyle. I think it may have been because I used flash. I’m still experimenting, though, so I am not always sure why I get some of the results that I get.
I agree that it was the flash.
That is so amazing this time of year. Enjoyed.
I’m surprised that it’s blooming so late.It could be that it is getting warmth from the house foundation, which is common in gardens close to the house.
That’s for all your continuing encouragement. I hadn’t really thought about the effect of the house’s foundation. We are regularly dropping below freezing at night but the daytime highs are still reaching the low 40’s.
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