Jakesprinter always animates his challenges.
I respond unanimatedly. The topic this week is flowers, and what woman can resist that? This first picture came from Pikes Peak Market in Seattle. The assortment of flowers amazed us, and the price was so affordable that if I had shared a room with anyone, even for a few days, I would have purchased a bouquet.
My friend Sally and I went to an iris festival last year. Showy flowers like irises and roses seem to gravitate towards my camera. The sun was much too bright on this May afternoon, so I darkened this picture some.
Purple ruled my camera’s heart that day.
How much more difficult it was to take beautiful pictures of flowers among the wildflowers in the foothills last spring. This year I imagine there are none, and the grass is mostly dusty dried up blades.
Wait for it. Even my tripod got tired, but beauty is there.
When there are thousands of flowers from which to choose, is it any easier to find a good picture?
I looked through all my Botanical Garden pictures, and the same few are still my favorites. My camera wasn’t as picky with these gems. This time out, I picked a picture I haven’t shown you because it is so busy, and darkened the contrast to accommodate for too much sunshine. You can imagine how overpowering it is to walk into and entire garden this beautiful.
Flowers grab us and our cameras wherever they are.
Just so you know, our peach trees are starting to turn the fields pink here in Tulare County (no camera with me). Downtown Visalia and Woodlake are in bloom already. We are supposed to get snow in the mountains today which we need desperately. How is your weather today?
By the way, I finished self-editing my book after two fairly solid months of work. It turned out to be just over 61,000 words. I am now ready to send it to a real editor to have it hacked up a little more, then I plan to self-publish it. A friend asked me how I was going to market it. I feel like I’m having a baby that is obviously not going to be living on its own right away, and I hadn’t counted on it needing so much loving care!
If an object is translucent, it acts like a filter shadowing what is behind it. To me this looks like a little alien carrying a pappoose pointing its finger at something. We had gone to a Luau in Kauai. The grounds attracted us back the next day for closer inspection.
The height of these buildings made it almost impossible to photograph the entire building as we passed by slowly. Can you imagine how many windows are in the Chicago high-rise buildings? And each window represents many working Americans. Amazing isn’t it?
