Floral Friday – A closer look at the Rudbeckia
I have my absolute favourite flowers, and then I have others that I love and want to photograph. I think Rudbeckias or cone flowers are somewhere in the middle. I have been trying to grown […]
Floral Friday – In the garden this week
Things are really looking up in the garden right now. There have been so many new flowers and the plants are just blooming. I think all the work I’ve been doing with watering and figuring […]
Floral Friday – More infrared photos from the garden
I hope you like seeing these because I suspect there is going to be a lot more infrared flowers. I think it is becoming one of my favourite ways to photograph flowers. Today I was […]
Floral Friday – Exploring the garden with the infrared camera
I’m still working on the garden, but have to admit the watering is going a lot better and I’m feeling more confident. Sadly many seeds I planted have done nothing and I’m starting to think […]
Floral Friday – Bringing in the New Year with some rain
It didn’t quite happen on New Years day but last Monday we got a lot of rain. It was glorious. It did seem like a while since we had any. It just rained and rained […]
Floral Friday – Looking back at my garden in 2024
What a year it is has been for my garden. I was so happy that there were nearly always flowers outside for me to take photos of. The biggest problem I had was remembering to […]
Looking back to when the lilac tree was flowering
Getting my lilac tree to grow and then have flowers was a great achievement for me. I love the colour and the smell of them. More were posted with this, so click here if you […]
Remembering back when I finally got this dahlia
This was so good and if you want to know more about it, then click here.
Floral Friday – Some favourites from this year
I thought it might be nice to just show you some of my favourite flowers that I have taken this year. These were nearly all taken in my garden, I think. It isn’t always easy […]
Trying something new
I wanted to start by saying that I hope everyone in the US had a good thanksgiving. Now this is a bit of a lazy post. I have been trying to figure out how to […]
Floral Friday – More from the garden
This week, we have had rain, rain, and then more rain. The humidity has also been disgusting for Melbourne. We are known more for our dry heat, which is what most of us are used […]
Floral Friday – More flowers with the infrared camera
When I first got an infrared camera I wondered if it would work for plants. I tried taking some photos with it in a rainforest and decided that it didn’t work and you couldn’t really […]
Finally the dahlias are starting to flower
A couple of the dahlias have started flowering and many of the others have got buds that are about to burst open. While there are others that are only just started to come up. Funny […]
Lens-Artists Challenge #325 – Gratitude or luck
This week Tina from Travels and Trifles is asking us about gratitude and what we are grateful for. I find this a hard concept to get my head around, as I don’t think we, as […]
Comparing phones with some flowers from the garden
Here is the post to compare the two phones. My previous phone was the Samsung A73 and now I have the Google Pixel 9. As I said yesterday the biggest reason for getting the new […]
Floral Friday – Flower photos from my phone
I don’t know if you remembered that a while back I showed you some photos taken with my husbands new phone. He got the Pixel 8 and when I saw how good the photos were, […]
Floral Friday – From one Friday with roses to the next
This week I have photos taken over the last week, but they are the same flowers. I decided to try setting up something inside for photos. I choose to pick some roses from my garden […]
Floral Friday – Looking back at older visits to mum’s garden
Since I’ve been helping my mum so much recently and last week I showed some photos from her garden, I thought today we could reflect on some images I’ve done in the past. I think […]