As the calendar turns to meterological summer it's time for a new place to share the flowers of the season.
I may need to search for different flowers since my favorite garden has been closed due to COVID-19 and is just reopening this week. Some perennials should pop up but the annuals have not been planted yet, hopefully soon.
Please share your summer flowers here!
A few days ago explored Wilder Ranch in Santa Cruz, California. So many different wildflowers were still in bloom. These were my favorites but I only had an iPhone to shoot.
Bougainvillea from my run yesterday:
The garden at the Stevens-Coolidge Place officially reopened for visitors this week but the open times are from 10 AM to 4 PM. Since my preferred visiting times are early in the morning and early in the evening I have continued to walk onto the property at other than open times.
Yesterday's visit showed bearded iris still in peak condition.
I have a Canon Eos R rental with a 28-70 f/2.0 (!!) so I took a couple snaps of flowers this a.m. This is at 70mm and f/4.0. How about that bokeh?
bokeh is sweet!
I'm torn, at first I thought I preferred the sharpness of the first photo but when I looked again I find that I really prefer the second photo. The step back from the flowers makes a better composition in my eye.
I don't think there is a right or wrong here, and I often have the same problem with my own images!
And I'm delighted you decided to share in this thread!
They’re both beautiful, but I prefer the top one because it’s closer to the most interesting part of the photo, which draws I want to look at closely.
My spouse is the gardener in our family - she has about 75 feet of day lilly beds along the west side of our barn - they just started blooming near the end of June - red, orange, yellow, pink...
Gorgeous!
