Red Blooms on the Deck

There weren’t only yellow blooms on Nancy’s (Jeff's sister) deck – she has some lovely red roses on her deck as well!  Take a look at these beauties!

Single Bud

I love the simplicity of a single rose bloom and was lucky enough to capture it in this image.  You can sort of see a blurred image of another flower growing off the deck along the wall running next to the deck.  But, the star of this image is the beautifully perfect red bud.

Two Buds

Here’s a lovely flower portrait of a red rose just starting to bloom and the companion bud next to it.  I think both of them are equally beautiful – what is and what will be.

Close Up

By photographing this in a bracketed fashion and processing it with my HDR (High Dynamic Range) software, you can really see the depth of color and texture that this bloom has to offer.  It’s almost past its prime, but there’s a different sort of beauty in that.

Enjoy!

 

Yellow Blooms on the Deck

While visiting Jeff’s sister and brother-in-law in the Seattle area, I played around with the auto bracketing feature on my camera and combined that with my HDR (High Dynamic Range) software to create some images that are more like what we actually see with our eyes, or can see if we slow down enough to really look.  That’s one of the things I love most about photography – it forces me to slow down and really see. All these blooms are of blowers that Jeff’s sister grows on the deck off the back of her house.  Take a look ~

Nancy’s Rose

I really like this image, even tho it’s not perfect.  The breeze was blowing ever so slightly, and so when the software combined my bracketed images, a sort of shadow effect was inadvertently created.  It makes it look almost dreamy.

Horizontal Rose

No breeze for this image!  I love the depth that’s created by combining images in the HDR software.  Don’t you feel like you could just bend down and smell the roses (literally)?  Watch out for the thorns, tho!

Rose Profile

This lovely profile image is of a rose just starting to bloom.  It will soon be joined by a few others, in bud or in earlier stages of blooming.  For whatever reason, this image just makes me feel calm and peaceful.

Hibiscus

Doesn't this image just seem like it’s reaching off the screen at you?  I get sort of mesmerized when I look at this image for a while.

Enjoy!