creative pursuits
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.
I love being able to make images like this.
Morning sun shining through this random grass flower on our chain link fence.
Found this little plant growing on the wrong side of the window in our barn. It seems to be looking wistfully out the window at the outdoors where it should be growing. I edited it to accentuate the textures, contrast, bokeh and desatureted it to add a that feeling.
I spotted this leaf in a chair in our driveway this morning while on my way out the car. The stark contrast of the colors and watercolor pattern grabbed me and I had to photograph it.
I like how the light shines through my plant bowl in the morning.
Somewhat of a departure from my regular focal length, I brought it all the way out to 18 instead of 55 so I could get the other lilies in the background. I really like the result. Especially after tweaking it in Lightroom to bring up the clarity of the foremost lily.
I love it when an image jumps out at me. I had just gone outside to walk around in the backyard and look for something to photograph. I did half a lap and then went back to get a sip of water and saw this fantastic green shadow! It took some arranging but I like the lines and colors in the result (glad I turned the cap so that the star was upright as well). Quite pleased with this one.
Not one of my best, I admit. It was late and I needed something. I did, however, do some experimenting with camera settings though, so it wasn’t a complete blow-off. I played with my ISO to get the image.
A quick close up of a little snail in the low-tech planted bowl I set up. Even though it was a quick simple photo I rather like the colors and textures.
Now that I am getting the hang of Photoshop I am realizing that I can do some things in Photoshop as well. I did some layers on this so that I could blur the background better and get rid of some of the distractions. And, uncharacteristically did not desaturate at all!
This Luna Moth appeared at our side door this evening. I love the color, size and shape of these guys. One of my very favorite lepidopterans!
I love the color and lines in this image. Like many of my daily images, this one was an afterthought while I was photographing something else (columbine flowers) and I wound up liking it better than the images I was trying to make in the first place! This is also a rare (for me) time when I get to accentuate color before anything else. I brought down the contrast and warmed it up quite a bit and then actually increased the saturation and vibrance (I’m usually prone to desaturating and sometimes increasing vibrance). I really like the result. It’s a learning process!
We went to a public Garden today to see the lilacs and there were lots of other beautiful flowers as well. As it was sunny and midday many of my photos came out with harsh shadows. I like this one because of the clean, soft, green background and the one crisp flower in the front.