Neighborhood Flowers

This, I might use in a poem sometime, because I like the contrast between the delicate blossoms, and impassable brick-wall background.

Sharp resolution on the tulip here!  It turned out this was a low wind day, so I wandered about my neighborhood grabbing these shots.  First I look to see if there’s a car in the driveway.  If not, I close in.  If anyone asks me what I’m doing, I tell them I’m working for National Geographic.  Then they want you to take pictures of their gardens too!  LOL!

I LOVE the spring because everything is so fresh and new!  It was at one of these spots where I lost my glasses it took me three months to replace…  I was literally bumping into people!  This shot?  I like the splash of pink in a sea of green!

I thought: [ If I crop it to straighten the tree and the house in the background, then the flowers will look crooked.]  So I decided to leave it as is.  I was getting down and dirty, so I could have lost my glasses here…  Someone’s wearing my spectacles!  Look at the angle of the sun’s shadow on the tree.  It’s around 11 am.

These are brand new!  And I like the contrasting black background as well…  Sometimes I don’t think of things until later.  Like that green stick leaning on the bottom left?  If I’d removed that, the picture would have made a perfect wallpaper for your icons.  You can always use your clone stamp in Photoshop and remove it yourself…  Would take three seconds, plush loading time for an enormous program.

As I tell all my followers, I own one of the best cameras in the world, always use a tripod, a shutter cable release, and my clearest 50mm macro lens, I use a sun shield and although I have auto focus on the lens, I turn that off because I find I can bring out much sharper detail if I sharpen manually!  And I am extremely patient and prolific with post processing…

These pictures, I provide for you absolutely free of charge, are for all in tents and porpoises, perfect to enlarge to 18″ x 24″, to maintain the proper aspect ratio, and costs, in Canada, about $21.95 each at that size.  Frames and a little cardboard backing can usually be gathered cheaply.  Hang one over your big shot fire-place!

Anyway, it’s my extreme pleasure as both a sucker and a pushover, to present you with what anyone would say are some great Spring flowers shots!  Enjoy the slide show, and leave a comment in the slide show if you decide to take one.  Thank you very much!  Come again!