King of the Road

A second image from the same set as the poppy, which was of a group of flowers growing wild at the side of the road, amongst them this dandelion.

Drive II

This is a slightly different treatment of the same flower as the in the previous post. Firstly, the depth of field in this image is quite shallow. Secondly, the post processing has resulted in a less contrasty image.

Something different next time.

Drive

This particular plan was growing on the drive, at the base of the garden wall. The image was made using a sheet of black paper as a background and available light.

I have a couple of other images using different treatments of this subject, which I may post shortly.

Fine and Dandelion

I like making images of dandelions - I find them very photogenic. This one is from the Clevedon Court set - perhaps the gardeners should get a grip?

Against the Clock

You know that you've let your garden go when you're making images of dandelion clocks which are growing in your flower beds.

The recent trip to Cannington has inspired me to return to a way of working which I'd abandoned some time ago - that is, to hand-hold the camera and use a wide aperture to keep the shutter speed up. The new innovation is to use live view with the camera at waist height, which avoids any undignified sprawling about.

This is much quicker than using a tripod, and very freeing. I'm not sure what it does for my hit rate, but it produces images which are quite different from the more formal studies that I've been producing for the past couple of years.