Recently, I went to a new garden for me. Heronswood House and Gardens is down on the Mornington Peninsula and is now run by the Diggers’ Club. I’ve been a member of the Diggers Club for a few years now, but this was my first time actually going to one of the places they take care of. I joined to get seeds, really. They do run classes and stuff, but they are a long way from where I live, so I never attend any. I could probably do with going to some, my gardening is not great.
Anyway, let’s get back to the post.
I’m going to be doing three posts over the next three days on it, and today I just wanted to introduce you to Heronswood and look at some flowers. Tomorrow we will look at the house, and for Silent Sunday, we will take a stroll around the gardens.
I just wanted to show you some of the flowers that I managed to take while I was there. Most of these were taken with my wide-angle lens, the 16-55mm, as it was too windy for the macro lens. I did try at the start using it, but it was driving me crazy.
I didn’t want to take my tripod as it was a new place for me, and I wasn’t sure how they would feel about it. Maybe next time I will try taking it with me and see what they say. I’ve really got attached to the tripod and my macro lens.
I think the wide-angle did a pretty good job. I had a lot of fun trying different angles and playing around with the aperture. I was actually surprised how good the images taken with the it came out. I might have to experiment a lot more, I think.
Here is a small number of the flowers I captured.
Such beautiful blooms … that blue iris is a stunner!
Thank you Julie.
Gorgeous flower portraits, Leanne. Your editing with the dark background makes them pop. Beautiful work.🙂
Thank you Jane, I like that background.
These are lovely Leanne, especially that gorgeous iris with its delicate petals – you’ve captured the textures perfectly 🙂
Thank you Sarah, glad you liked them.
Beautiful images Leanne! You and your wide angle did a great job. I just got back yesterday afternoon. Sandy gave me your message. I just deleted about 2,000 emails without reading and I know some of yours were among them. It was great disconnecting!
Thank you Anne, I was surprised at how well the wide did, I guess you don’t always need a macro. I don’t know that I could disconnect like that, but I’m planning on doing a bit of it when I go to Tasmania next year.
You can do close ups with a non-macro lens, but not true macros.
Yeah true.
Those are all lovely flower photographs. I especially like the rose and the iris. So beautiful.
Thank you RJ, it is great to get a chance to photograph a lot of them.
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Thank you.
They are lovely! xx
Thank you Jo.
The blue iris is stunning.
Thank you Marie.
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You too, and thank you Graham.
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What glorious photos!
Thank you Margaret.
Real beauties, especially the iris!
Thank you Sandy.
That’s one of the loveliest blue iris images I’ve ever seen. I mean that sincerely as I know from my RBG days that they’re not the easiest flower to photograph.
I’ve been to Heronswood just once, back in the day (pre 2003) when I still had a car and could drive that distance from South Yarra. It’s a lovely garden (and so is Buda up in Castlemaine). Is Budu still open to the public?
It is a gorgeous colour, I’m wondering if I have one that colour in my garden. I was lucky with it, because the composition was right in front of me. I agree, they are not easy.
It is a lovely garden. I haven’t heard of that other place, but now I will have to look it up.
How did you go with the wind the other day, Wednesday. I was really wild, our ornamental pear tree dropped a big branch, had to spend yesterday cutting it up.
So beautiful!
Thank you Jean.
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these are beautiful
Thank you Beth.
Gorgeous blooms! That blue iris is stunning!
Thank you so much.