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Black and White Daisies

Posted on July 31, 2019October 24, 2021 by Pegasene

A couple different varieties, rendered in black and white.

I love daisies.

I picked a bunch and spent an afternoon photographing them and editing the photos back in July of 2016. This was the high-contrast, black and white version.

Cosmic cosmos

Posted on July 30, 2019October 24, 2021 by Pegasene

Sometimes it’s just about what we like. I like cosmos. And I like this image.

Nor much more to it than that.

Did I mention I love daisies?

Posted on July 7, 2019October 24, 2021 by Pegasene

I can’t help it. They are what is blooming right now and I am constantly drawn back to them, no matter how many photos I’ve taken of them already.

I love their bright sunny faces.

I just remembered that they are from the family asteraceae, which includes sunflowers, calendula, echinacea, chrisanthamums, dahlias and zinnias, all of which I also love.

Guess you’ll be seeing a lot of asteraceae images from me.

Black eyed Susans forest

Posted on July 6, 2019October 24, 2021 by Pegasene

Bright golden black eyed Susans, shot from the side in the morning.

I really like this image, but it feels like something isn’t quite right to me…

I got excited photographing these because of the shapes and the early morning light and the lovely smeary background (thanks to my new 50mm Nikkor lens, which I ADORE). I had something in mind for how I wanted to process them, but it was a rather nebulous idea and I wasn’t able to match what I was feeling during the editing process.

Does that ever happen to you?

I had this image in my head that was bluish and very moody but nothing I did seemed to evoke that feeling so I gave up and just went with what what I felt looked best.

I still really like the image, it just didn’t turn out the way I had expected/hoped/tried.

Maybe I’ll visit it again at a later date with new eyes (or more experience) and match my vision for it.