Posted in Art, Flowers, Gardening, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, spring, tagged Alexandria VA, Canon 50D, green spring gardens, orange poppy, poppy, Tamron on May 20, 2014| 5 Comments »
There is something about orange poppies that really draws my attention. Maybe it’s their bright color or maybe it’s the unusual looking central column topped by a star. I remember being mesmerized by their beauty last year and I felt the same when they reappeared this year. Roses are nice, but this flower attracts me even more.
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Posted in Flowers, Gardening, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, tagged Canon 100mm macro lens, Canon Rebel XT, green spring gardens, orange poppy, peonies, pink peonies, poppy on May 23, 2013| 2 Comments »
Vibrant colors surrounded me this past weekend, when I visited a local garden, and this morning I felt like highlighting the beautiful pink and yellow of a pair of peonies and the contrasting orange and green in a close-up shot of an orange poppy.
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Posted in Bugs, Flowers, Gardening, Insects, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, wildlife, tagged ant, bee, canon 18-55mm lens, Canon Rebel XT, flowers, green spring gardens, hover fly, insects, orange poppy, poppy on August 3, 2012| 9 Comments »
Do you ever get in the mood for a single color? This evening I am in an orange mood. (As a disclaimer I should mention that I drive an orange car, so orange plays a larger role in my daily life than it probably does for most others.) To scratch that itch, I decided to post some photos from late May of an orange poppy and some of the insects that visited it.
May was the month when I first started getting more serious about photography and these photos were an early indication to me that I was improving. I still enjoy looking at them, remembering some of the early twists and turns of the photography journey on which I have embarked.
As I think back, I feel like I was just learning to walk. Now I can walk with much greater confidence. I look forward to being able to run.
Visiting bee
Visiting hoverfly (flower fly)
Visiting ant
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