Sunflower Heaven

Another Sunflower

More Sunflowers

Sunflowers

The season for these wonderful specimens of nature is just around the corner

Flowers 6/6

Photoshop Flowers

I don’t normally use Photoshop to process my images, but because it’s part of my subscription, I decided to go on a discovery mission and discovered a filter that enhances lines in images and gives them the perception of depth, like in an oil painting with brush strokes. It works so well with flowers, I

Flowers over the River

Love the color combinations from some of the flowers in the hanging baskets along the river and the bokeh spheres from the sun’s rays bouncing off the water in the first image

Flowers

When I shot the flowers yesterday, I tried using my 105mm macro lens for the closeups. But because it wasn’t calibrated with my D850, the images were unusable. I’ve since calibrated it using the D850 Auto AF Fine Tune and it appears to have been a success…

Flowers with an unexpected guest

Wild Flowers

Flowers

Flowers

Some of the flowers from the baskets the Parks & Recreation people added along the Wingfield Park park path. Shot with my 300mm lens, I was amazed how much detail it captured. Detail normally only a macro lens would capture

A sign of warmer weather is upon us…

…when the Parks and Recreation crew hang the flower pots along the Riverwalk and along the path in Wingfield Park. The pots will be watered weekly and the flowers will end up hanging down over the edge approx 6 feet by season’s end. I’m always surprised that, by season’s end, vandals haven’t decimated the pots.

Double Exposure Flowers

These images are of flowers using a double exposure effect with a film framing

Shriveling Irises

Flowers growing along the river seem scarce this year. Normally there’s an explosion of color popping up everywhere. It is Spring, after all. And those that are popping up are dying because of our recent crazy weather