Flower magic.

Shooting flowers and plants with a macro lens is the best thing out. its gets even better if they are all on top of each other like these “Vygies” were in my garden. this was a fantastic idea to plant them this close (close together and close to home) because they look great together and it saved me some pertrol money in stead of having to drive out to the west coast for an hour!

What I found was that the flowers got quite abstract the closer I got because part of the petals became ridiculously out of focus (OOF) to a point where it started to look like abstract paintings and the colour fields of  Mark Rothco, just with some flowery details mixed in. Read more…