Because pictures are sort of like breathing

[pecunium]

I worked some more on the stuff from yesterday.

The poppies in this series were shot a little earlier (perhaps half of an hour) and the light was warmer, harder and a trifle richer (there were scudding clouds, which changes the fill from skylight).

Crepe Paper



Crumpled


Ruffed Collar


The next one I really like, because of the way the seedpod seems to rise up, and congeal, out of the wash of color.

Bullseye


Now for something completely different

Succulent

Comments

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

You've decided me on the question of planting Papaver rhoeas this year; so very much going on there, visually!

Julia, bon voyage, and hope your travels are enriching

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Those were planted from a 1 lb bag of seeds I bought, four years ago, for cookery.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I've got a pint jar of saved seeds; I got out of growing poppies when I failed to get my spring weeding done early enough for the seedlings to survive. They are great floral models.

Your Bird of Paradise series the other day was dandy, but I saw it on the fly as I tried to get to seventeen other things.

Julia, finding this spring rather strenuous

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

One of the things I like about photos (and part of the answer to a friend's question on why I like macro) is they show things which the naked eye misses.

Freezing/isolating the blossom gives equal weight to everything you want to see in the picture, and time to peruse it.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

The poppy pictures are amazing.

I'm still waiting for most of the flowers to bloom in Ohio. Seeing your pictures just makes the itch to get out there with my camera stronger.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The spring blooms are pretty much gone. With a bit of care, were I in a place with my own yard, I could play with sun and water, a bit, to make for a longer season.

That or the timing of planting bulbs, which would require digging them up.

The only flowers I can keep going for most of the summer is California Poppies, because so long as they are watered enough, they will keep making flowers.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

When I was in California, I could keep cosmos, coreopsis, sweet peas and nasturtiums going all summer if I made sure to dead head them. But I had big gardens of my own there and I spent a lot of time on them.

Here I have wildflowers and a few flower beds the seniors who live here plant. I make do.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Bullseye ftw!

[tanithk.livejournal.com]

Wow. You make the kind of photos I want to make.

*lurker here - not sure how I got here originally, but I've been very moved by your essays on torture and your photographs*

*must get macro lens...*

Tanith

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Welcome, and feel free to make comment.

I just went and looked at Terrence Karney Photography and discovered I've not done a piece on the tools/techniques of macro.

When I get to Tennesee I need to rectify that.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I have a pretty good idea how you got here.

We blame Bear.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

"Succulent" really jumped out this time. I'm gussing it's because of the colour, pattern, but also it made me feel..relaxed. Happy, maybe.