The close up of an orange lily

Summer Wallpapers - July

Ah, how the time flies... haven't posted anything here since spring? Honestly, I didn't have what to post, it was a rather busy period. But recently I brought the camera outside again, and decided to experiment with some wide wallpaper creation.
I was only satisfied with 2 of the photos, so I'm going to share them with you. Enjoy!

(click the images to get to the full-res version - when on Flickr, right click the image and select "Large 2048" for the highest available resolution)

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These are the original images:

Flowers in Focus

Since it's spring time, there's an explosion of beautiful flowers, some with calming fragrances. Perhaps I'm going to post more photos in this post if I'll take more shots. I may even delete some of the photos if I feel like I can do better and take more interesting photos of the same flowers.

Crocus Focus

Hyacinth( it's so close, can you smell it?)

Sunny Daffodil

Gentle Daisy

Spring is here!

A good indicator of spring has always been the snowdrop where I live. Although the temperatures are still quite low, spring is showing up shyly. I can't wait to bathe in the warm sun and start wearing some lighter clothes.
Here are some of the first snowdrops that appeared:

Beauties of mid-spring

Cherry flowers



Dandelion radiance


Crystal drops on the delicate blade of grass



Tableau de la forêt au printemps



Yellow blossoms


Blue fragility

Early spring

Watching the weather forecast... oh it's getting warmer! 15*C already :O ? I must get out!
*grabbing my camera
*head towards the nearby forest

I was hoping to photograph some snowdrops. Unfortunately, they have sprung much earlier, probably early February, because they like colder temperatures(they often get out even through snow).
I instead found lots of crocus flowers, and some primroses (primula vulgaris) here and there. I was disappointed for a moment(snowdrops are spring symbols after all!), but then I was happy that I found something to photograph anyway. Crocus flowers offer lively colours :).

Crocus flowers on the forest bed

 
I am not really pleased with my photograph above. Only when I arrived home I noticed that the bottom crocus, on which I focused, is not enough included in the frame. It bothers my eyes. I left too much blurred out space on the upper part. I hope it still presents the beauty of these flowers in a natural way.




As the "focus" suggests, my sole purpose of this photo was to present the pollen structure. If you zoom in a bit, you can actually see the grains of pollen. I think I could actually made it closer, but I wanted to include the flower petals so the image looks more natural. Actually, the petal from the left was touching the lens :)



This looks like a pretty generic flower macro, but photographing from this angle those common primroses (primula vulgaris) adds a bit of depth to them. They look a bit more beautiful in my opinion than watching them from above.



2 crocus flowers blooming on the same strain. It looks beautiful!





There are a lot of daisy flowers already on the fields, and, like anybody else, I almos passed near them without noticing. Perhaps because of their size they are most of the time unobserved. So I decided to give it a shot. I was surprised to see how beautiful and gentle they look from up close. It inspires perfection and happiness :).


Currently it's again rainy and cold outside :(. But in april I hope to make more photos of other beautiful flowers, like tulips, lily of the valley and daffodils( and of course, different tree flowers !)

I wish all a lovely warm, lovely spring. Have a nice day!

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