Found this bright little guy in the chive blossoms. I like the color contrast (and, of course, the flowers).
bookmark_borderBright Beetle
Tag: spring
bookmark_borderChive Buds
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!
bookmark_borderCherry Blossom
I can’t help it, I love these flowers. Anyway, nobody said I couldn’t photograph the same subjects over and over again. And today I wanted to photograph Sand Cherry blossoms. Again.
Because I love them.
bookmark_borderBacklit Dandelions
Took me way to long to decide which photo I wanted to put up for today’s post. Mostly because I wasn’t completely happy with either one! I like them both, but there was something about each that bothered me. So here we have the backlit dandelion flowers and below I have included the other two I was considering.
bookmark_borderSand Cherry Blossoms
One of my favorite blooming trees. I love the smell of these blossoms and I adore the fact that the leaves are burgundy! I always feel as though I have some beautiful exotic Japanese images after I photograph these.
bookmark_borderPurple Violets
I love that yard behind the porch gets covered with violets this time of year. When they are all in bloom it looks positively magical!
bookmark_borderBlades of Grass
This is a fistfull of grass I gathered for my rabbit’s evening snack tonight. Again I waited until later in the day to use my camera and I couldn’t decide what to photograph, but I liked the texture of the grass and I think it lent itself well to black and white.
bookmark_borderOvercast Violets
Some violets in flower under Moss (his leaves haven’t quite unfurled yet so it’s still pretty sunny there). I processed this image to enhance the look of the overcast afternoon. I’ve been sticking with about f5 in Aperture priority because I like blurry backgrounds, but I think I could have opened it up a bit more for this (especially seeing as though I had it all the way down to 35mm). I can’t wait to see what images like this one look like with a 50mm prime…
bookmark_borderBright Daffodils
Unlike the other images I made, I took this photo looking up with the grey sky in the background which enabled me to bring up the exposure in Lightroom brightening the Daffodils and turning the sky white (the first time I did that it was with irises in the snow, but I’m pleased this worked the same way!).
Some other images from today:
bookmark_borderNew Peppermint Leaves
This tough little sprig of peppermint is growing despite being hauled from the earth and transplanted twice. I’m very fond of the purple in the stem.
bookmark_borderAfternoon Ferns
New fern fronds growing at the base of Moss (the maple tree) caught in the afternoon sunlight.
bookmark_borderStarflower
Periwinkle flower after a brief rainstorm this afternoon.
bookmark_borderFiddlehead Conference
This was taken in late afternoon/early evening which gave a really nice lighting effect. Even though I photographed these same subjects last year I find that this lighting made for a much nicer image.
bookmark_borderEaster Eggs
Happy Easter! I love how my painted eggs came out but I had a terrific time trying to decide how I wanted to process this photo. I was pretty drawn to one version that made them look like golden eggs (below) but I really wanted the colors to come through because, well, they’re EASTER eggs and they’re supposed to be colorful.
bookmark_borderDried Hydrangea
Dried hydrangea tumbleweed I found while walking around on the first 70+ degree day of spring!