Flowers

Summer in the Garden

Sunflower and a bee.

Sunflower and a bee.

Of all the summer flowering annuals Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are known as the “Giants”. They can grow up to 35 cm wide on a tall branching plant that can reach up to 1.5 metres high!

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They can symbolise focus, healing and warmth. And in China symbolism extends beyond longevity to vitality, good fortune, happiness and intelligence.

Springtime in the Garden

3 daffodils in a blue setting

Daffodils

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Four spring daffodils in a complimentary color setting. Looking like golden yellow flying angels.

Daffodil in the Dunedin Botanic Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Various common names include daffodil, narcissus and jonquil.

Early Autumn Photography

Green leaves turning to the typical gold of autumn — Green turning to the typical gold of autumn.
Note the softness. In camera, which gives a sharper look in this case, of segments of background – bit like pieces of a jigsaw

Green leaves turning to the typical gold of autumn, in Wanaka — Soft, out of camera, and then applied again in software

Green leaves turning to the typical gold of autumn, in Wanaka. High key filter — High key filter, post processing

Not every moment of Easter weekend 2021 was spent in the woods…

An un-seasonal nor wester on Lake Wanaka, and a dog with a stick — An unseasonal nor-wester on Lake Wanaka.
But every dog has it’s day

A moody clouds as prelude to the official autumn season on Lake Wanaka — A moody prelude to the official autumn season on Lake Wanaka

Hand stand in the wind, Lake Wanaka — Hand stand in the wind – gusts of 120 km/hr!

Focus stack of two images combined. Autumn colors — Two images combined

Claret colored tree in autumn, with lichen on the trunk — Lichen with claret!

dead birch tree leaves — Perhaps more dead than an “alive autumn look

Pink rose in the rain, with rain drops — Be prepared to get wet in the quest for soft light

White peonei — Source image for the mandala style one below

Bright red autumn foliage — Non distracting background known as bokeh.
More easily achieved if the background is someway behind the subject.
Plus lens wide open

Pink rose close up with raindrops — Roses in certain light are not always as they seem

Orange rose in Dunedin Gardens

And lastly some odds and ends for the week

University of Otago Campus — University of Otago Campus. Post processing involved some playing with infra red

Computer manipulated image of a white peonei — Once was a peonei

Decorative blue piano in Cromwell Mall — Nothing to do with autumn, but seen in Cromwell town

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