Experimenting – or Playing – with Photography. Part V, Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere

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follow url “I must have flowers, always, and always.” ~ Claude Monet

go site While I was visiting New York City and Long Island over the extended Labor Day weekend, our timing was perfect. The flowers put on a tremendous show for us. Everywhere we walked there were planters, gardens, even flowers floating with such grace and beauty in fountains.

https://www.wjsmithconstruction.com/greenville-home-additions/ I was with beloved family who I only see once or perhaps twice a year, and didn’t want me and my camera interrupting the flow. (Once my big camera is in my hands, this mysterious force takes over and I see photo ops constantly – not such a good plan with a group of four, including one pregnant daughter!) So I continued to “play” with photography while I was visiting family on Long Island. And yes, the cell phone camera can be a distraction, too! But not quite as bad, I’m told.

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source link “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” ~ Oscar Wilde

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https://thesentinelgroup.com/talcum-ovarian-cancer/ “Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.” ~ May Sarton

https://bettierose.co.uk/307_baker_fotor/ Never underestimate the power of a flower! I stopped to admire two planters of green-eyed Susans flanking the door of a jewelry shop I had no intention of visiting. Then a too fancy opal ring in the front window caught my eye. I had lost my wedding ring several months ago, and I’d been casually looking at opal rings (I’d decided to go with an opal my birthstone, not another diamond).

Order Soma 350Mg Online On the spur of the moment, we entered this very formal jewelry store. Not even my kind of store, I thought. But my daughter – shopper extraordinaire – found a black opal way in a back case, on sale, end of season, etc., etc. and the pieces fell into place.

source site So I thank this charming bunch of bright flowers, for I now have a replacement ring. Deeply grateful!

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go to link “Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”  ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

https://bettierose.co.uk/contact/ More Hydrangea, with a different color treatment…an unusual combination inspired from a shake of my camera and the serendipity of the Hipstamatic app…

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https://www.completerehabsolutions.com/services/ “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ~ Victor Hugo

enter site And Hydrangea in blue. Don’t they have just the most luscious colors – that pale blue with lavender and yellow highlight?

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