Last of the Season???

[Nina]

This is beautiful and very dramatic. I love this shot !

[Old Timer]

And one more from me, just 5 months to go!

Another very nice shot Jezz. Thanks for keeping things alive.

[kerriann85]

Reading this made me wonder what was left of my flowers. Thought this poor little guy's last gasp was kinda nice. He pretty well defines "last of the season"

[Jezz]

Thanks guys, its actually an apple bloom of one of my 20 year old apple bonsai which is one of my hobbies.
I really like that shot Kerriann, though it would have been nice to have gotten all the pettles in focus. just my opinion.

[Jezz]

And again with one more, i love macro, some of my favorite things are small.

[AuntieP]

I've been taking macro shots of flowers most of this summer, and now have a collection that I'm hoping to sell through my friend's florist shop. I've been using my old Zenit 12XP with a couple of macro extension tubes screwed on behind my standard lens. You get lovely shallow depth of field with them.

I've uploaded 2 onto the macro projects album, and hope to add more soon but it takes so long - actually I'm finding this site very slow to navigate (I'm on a dial-up connnection and have a rather slow PC, so please bear with me).

Here's my Hibiscus in Water, photographed floating in a pool with a fountain spraying it. Sorry about the black line at the top, it's down to the scanning and I've not sorted it yet.

[Old Timer]

Thanks for the post AnutieP. It is so nice to be able to have a place to catch a nice new flower everyday or so.

[megan]

Here is my contribution - these were on a bush on Shelter Island, Aug. 14. Many other clumps were already past their primes. Holga with 400 Portra VC.

Megan

[Jezz]

the quality of shots here is really good, keep them coming!
and a daish from me!

[Jezz]

Just throwing this in to keep this nearly dead thread going, Here is a pinwheel daisy.

[guruguy9]

Those are beautiful colors on the back side of the petals...please keep it going!

[Jakkar]

Before



and After

[Jezz]

Thanks guru, yeah they are gorgeous flowers.

And i love the before and after from Jakkar, though they seem a little dark on my monitor, but that is just my taste.