Flower photos, taken this summer in my garden. Enjoy!
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Hello BooTribbers! I’m posting two photo diaries: one of Bugs, and this one of Flowers. Unfortunately I have to run off to celebrate Thanksgiving in the non-internets part of the world, so I will miss talking with you all, and viewing everyone’s photo diaries. I’m looking forward to them all.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I sincerely thank all of you here for welcoming me in, and for being such a wonderful, supportive group of people. Booman Tribune is the best site on the ‘net, and it has everything to do with the people who commune and converse here, from the very tip top (Booman and susanhu) to the very newest member.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Cosmos
One of my first garden pictures. I loved the colour.
Oh wow!
This picture makes me wish I could get “small” and slide down that petal! The water and the color say Ahhhh :o)
Olivia, I hope you don’t mind that I’ve set this picture as my desktop backround. It’s so peaceful and delicious :o)
I don’t mind at all. It’s kinda cool knowing that a picture you snapped in your little corner of the world makes people feel good in their other little corners of the world!
Thanks so much for the compliments. Truly appeciated.
~olivia
Cosmos’ view of the sky
Loved the white and blue colours of this one.
I can just feel the sun on my face!
This photo is just stunning, especially in the larger version. Wonderful!
Wow Olivia! These pictures are soooo amazing. I always aspire to
shots like yours, but don’t come close.
I’ve been to some beautiful gardens in the world, but obviously you don’t have to
travel far to find inspiration. I remember an interview I heard with the artist,
David Hockney. When asked where he goes to find his constant inspiration, he repiled,
“Nature never lets you down.”
Aren’t we fortunate to be able to see all this around us!
Thanks for showing us all this beauty.
PS – If you ever want to come to NYC – I’ll show you (surprisingly) some of the most spectacular
gardening around
“Nature never lets you down.”
So true. I think sometimes I get so caught up in ‘life’ that I don’t take time to really look at what’s around me. But, when my camera’s in hand I do … so, there you go. Thanks so much for your kind words – truly appreciate them. And I’ll keep your offer in mind. :o)
~olivia
Pink rose
Love rose petals!
Hollyhock
The flowers are so strange … crinkly like paper.
Red rose
The bright red and bright yellow were quite a contrast.
Mallow and sky
The petals are so fine that they are see-through in the sun.
Pink rose, bottom view
I had just deadheaded this one, but it was still so beautiful from the bottom that I had to take a photo.
I love the sentiment in this photo. Beauty is where you find it. Thank you for having the eye to see beauty at this unusual angle.
So nice to meet you! :o)
Thank you so much for your lovely compliments.
One of the most beautiful sights I had this past summer while deadheading the rosebushes, was when I had filled a large – very large – bucket with spent blooms (I have a TON of roses). The bucket was filled with these blooms and petals – pinks, whites, reds, orange etc. It was technically ‘compost’ but it was so beautiful in colours, textures, etc. I wanted to take the bucket and spread it all over the yard but realized that work that would have required in clean up!
Oh, yay! Olivia photos! I’ve been waiting for you to post some. These are lovely. Your detail is so incredible it makes me a little afraid to open your bug photo diary! š
The bugs are mostly bees … and bees are good for the flowers!
Clematis
These guys were growing on my white bush. Lots of blooms, and they unfurled quickly.
That was supposed to be white ROSE bush! :^)
Rose and dew drops
Stunning w/ the dew in the morning sun.
OMG, that’s so beautiful.
As soon as I saw you had a diary about flower photos, I knew we were in for a treat. This one just takes my breath away. I remember either this – or one like it – in the cafe and was hoping to see it again here.
I must have this one…please let me have a copy!!! simply awesome. Great!!!!!!!!!!!
A tribute to purity of form.
If you’d like — or anyone else for that matter — I could send you the larger version of this one. It was one of the first photos I uploaded to flickr, and resized it myself so the larger version didn’t load. Let me know, and I can send it in an email! (My e/m is olivia in ottawa at yahoo.ca –> no spaces)
Thank you so much for the compliments!
~olivia
I experience a temple, a mosque, a synagogue, a cathedral, a palace…
all to be found in the textures, colors, and light from a rose covered in dew in early morning…
and if I breathe in and out and calm myself and keep going into the photo, it fills the whole moment – and I am enriched and full – contented.
Thank you.
Catnip seedlings
This one’s for catnip! (Grown for my fatcat, Noods.)
And I hope you don’t mind that I’ve set this one as my desktop.
… in fact, I’m honoured!
~olivia
Olivia = Georgia Okeefe with a camera…beautiful work!
Peace
That’s a compliment! Thank you dada! :o)
I agree completely with dada. Taking pictures of flowers and making them come out as gorgeous as you’ve done is much, much more difficult than it would seem. It also wants to make me go out and look at the flowers that are blooming in the apt. complex I live in and view them with a different eye.
Wow CI. The idea that it makes you want to look at flowers differently. That’s a tremendous compliment. Thank you.
~oliva
Just glorious photos! How do you get so close with a digital camera without it being fuzzy? Maybe my camera is too cheap to do this.
My camera has a great digital macro setting. The key is to not move at all while taking the pic b/c when it’s that close even slight hand tremors can make it blurry. Believe me, for every non-blurry there are about 50 blurries.
Thank you for the compliments!
I’m so sorry to rush off. I wish I could respond to everyone and hand out the 4s. Please feel free to look around me flickr site for a few other photos not posted here. Enjoy!
Olivia, you are a master. These are breathtaking. The contrast between diary entries today is fabulous. From large open vistas to delicate water drops bathed in warm color. I can’t wait to see your bugs!
I’d say less master – more student … always learning something new. :^) It makes me feel good that you (and others) appreciated them so much. I’m truly blown away by the amazing work that has been posted this past w/e!
I thought they would be — and I have a damn good imagination. Spectacular. I’m so glad you were able to do this before leaving.
This is AndiF, not katiebird.
Also, I should tell you that my husband looks at your flower and insect photos and is absolutely blown away by your talent (and ready to put away his macro lens but I told him he could blame his failures on his rotten wife who is too damn impatient to allow him to get great shots).
I was just browsing through Jim’s photos and they are gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. (And it’s good to see that you’ve finally got a name for your elusive flower!)
And your landscapes are breathtaking. I’ve been itching to experiment since that day you explained it to me … I fiddled w/ it this past w/e. You’ve inspired me anew!
Thank you! I’ve been spending some time looking around at the diaries now that I’m back (boy, a lot went on here over the last two days!!!), and it seems like the Photo Fair was a tremendous success.
I tried to look at as many as I could but could not view them all. I have to say, in the end, from what I did see, your photos are outstanding. There are exquisite, sensitive, well-composed, creative, artful and beautiful.
absolutely stunning, many thanks, and please keep on shooting, you make life much more loving ; )
So good to see you popping back in here every once in a while. Really miss ya!
When I was doing my line of greeting cards and stationery? I had to traipse about SoCal to find beautiful pics to take and here you had them all along. If I ever go back to doing that, I’m buying your photos. Very nice.
My other half (Puget4) is a long time gardner and once helped illustrate a book on perennials. She’s oo-ing and ah-ing in the extreme right now.
What a wonderful surprise to see Mrs. Gooserock! (I’m on my way now to view her photos.)
You diary is absolutely stunning. I’m so impressed w/ your great photo tricks. Thank you for sharing — not just in the Photo Fair, but every day in the Cafe!
Olivia, these are phenominal. I love your art and I NEED your camera. Thanks for seeing the beauty in the small.
“Beauty is everywhere.” (You!) Just viewed your photos, and you have captured some truly lovely photos. I appreciate your compliments.
Gorgeous colors and details.
They are all incredible, but the purple cosmos is my favorite, no, wait, it’s the hollyhock….maybe the rose…
Great photos!
I feel the same way. Each flower is my favourite … until I see the next one. :o)