Pushing Up Daisies!

The last blog post of this school year is simply shots of daisies by the large loam pile in our field. I made the connection, as I was setting up these photos to post, to conversations with Dan Granholm this week and his pride in his daughter "Daisy" and her exploits as a soccer player. I totally get that he wants to spend more time with his family, and in hindsight I... well, it's always 20-20 isn't it?

So I guess this is a sort of dedication to the "Music Guy", and how much I will miss working with him. Sorry about the "pushing up daisies" title thing!

Another Floral Group

Here are blossoms from a bouquet at my house... I used some adjustments in iPhoto, any guesses as to what and how? Let's see what you can come up with just from looking at the finished piece. Please comment below and check out the other flowers shots at  http://chartliej.blogspot.com/  Thanks!

Floral Shots - Blossoms...

This spring got all the blossom "stuff" out early as we had a March heat wave, but lately the blooms have been in full flow everywhere. I'm going to post some shots I got the other day of general "groups" or wider scale blossoms, looking at POV, composition and soft light. These were all taken with a medium (40 - 50 mm) lens and tend to work with pattern of blossoms and/or leaves. As I get photos of plant life, I've discovered more and more an appreciation of the various leaf structures and how they work as backgrounds in certain compositions, but a "thickness" of blossoms can create their own backgrounds, echoing the focal points as well!