Early in the morning, on my way home from work, I stopped at a bench to take a drink, and noticed what looked like a strange mist coming off some weeds. Upon closer inspection, I discovered it wasn’t a mist, it was pollen being kicked up by the bumble bees landing on them. Hay fever sufferers beware!
Sometimes the best pictures happen right after a rain storm, so don’t put away the camera when it rains.
This week I found a flower I’ve never seen. It was tiny, purple, and clustered. I did the usual research and found nothing in the books. I finally found it on the internet. It’s a flower called a blue bugle, and it grows wild in England and Ireland, but seems to enjoy the atmosphere of Maine.
This scene struck me as peaceful.
Spring is definitely one of my favorite seasons, photographically. It is a time of birth, and new growth, like these tulips.
This flower is the first one I’ve seen blooming this spring. This is another great reminder that Spring has finally arrived in Maine.
I just finished another section in my photography class, and the assignment was to photograph a still life. Considering the time of the year, I decided to put an Halloween spin on it. I think the end product came out to my liking, but I have to admit I had more fun arranging it.
Out of all the things that most people never see, including baby pigeons and foxes that climb trees, I’ve seen most of them, but the one thing I never expected to see I saw, and captured this week.
Today is a shot of a bumble bee sleeping, which gave me the opportunity to get several shots without the bee moving. How could I pass up the opportunity.
This week I was out shooting for my school assignments, when I happened on some cone flowers that were buzzing with bumble bees. With my love of shooting close ups, I couldn’t resist the opportunity. It wasn’t part of my school assignment, but you take the shots as they come.
This week I thought I would go a little more domestic, and shoot a couple of garden flowers. Wild flowers are my favorite flowers to photograph, but garden flowers make easy beautiful subjects. People love their gardens, and are proud to show off their landscaping skills, so getting permission to photograph them is no problem.
I had to look up the flower I’m using for today’s photograph, but I found is most lovely. For those who want to know what kind it is, it is a purple coneflower, aka Echinacea Purpurea.
