The benefits of a sunny morning after heavy rain are not only about taking close-up of snails but also the great opportunity to catch some beautiful rain drops on the petals of the roses in your garden.
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About a month ago a colleague from Fedora showed me a photo of a snail, where I liked the colors but not so much the composition and framing, so I had to wait a few weeks for a "decisive moment", allowing to show my own vision of a snail photo. And it came this sunny morning, after a night with heavy rain, the perfect opportunity for the snails to take a little walk:
Update: the high resolution of the photo(s) here were lost in an unfortunate accident(human error made by be) and a bit later the only copy remaining (resized for web use, hosted on flickr) was deleted by the yahoo bastards. I am very sad about the lost content, but is out of my control. My only hope is I will be able to replace them with more and better shots.
I got the opportunity for a second snail shoot.
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The flower is not that great and the photo is not either, but it is the first rose blossoming this year in my garden, it is a mark of the roses season start (a season which will probably last until the late autumn).
Update: the high resolution of the photo(s) here were lost in an unfortunate accident(human error made by be) and a bit later the only copy remaining (resized for web use, hosted on flickr) was deleted by the yahoo bastards. I am very sad about the lost content, but is out of my control. My only hope is I will be able to replace them with more and better shots.
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I find those iris flowers spectacular (photos taken in my garden):
And the rainy weather, bad for photography as it will keep you inside, can make miracles with those water drops:
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Closing my portrait series of photos taken at the car and bike salon, naturally I should choose the one I like the best. Why I label this one as the best may be probably a not easy psychological thing to answer.
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…big, clear eyes with a nice catchlight add a smile and the portrait is ready!
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I think the only way for me to take this portrait properly was using an external flash (strobe), of course, with all the needed precautions (softbox, bounced).
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Too much girl portraits lately? How about interrupting for a flower close-up? Yes, it is also from my garden and I don’t know its name…
Update: the high resolution of the photo(s) here were lost in an unfortunate accident(human error made by be) and a bit later the only copy remaining (resized for web use, hosted on flickr) was deleted by the yahoo bastards. I am very sad about the lost content, but is out of my control. My only hope is I will be able to replace them with more and better shots.
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Even if I am a hi-tech guy living in a digital world, I think some things are the best in their natural form, according to me the portraits below are somewhat ruined by the obviousness of the bad contact lenses. But arguably, this does not ruin the portraits, which remain an accurate testimony of the captured world, they ruin the image of the models.
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Another beautiful portrait, this time a blue eyed redhead wearing a red shirt. The operative word here is "red".
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The goth girl the other day was to much for you? Then let’s ease the pain with a complete opposite, a beautiful, sweet and delicate blonde, one of my favorite portraits (so far):
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A short pause from the beautiful girl portraits for some beautiful flowers: purple lilac.
When I was a kid, we used to vandalize the lilac flowers, searching for "lucky charms": flowers with a non-standard number of petals, anything else than 4, be it less or more.
And it happens a lot to find such "lucky" lilac flowers, but I think the tree from my garden is a mutant or something, you can find flowers with 3, 5, 6, 7 or even 8 petals.
And no, they are not lucky…
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There are various types of faces to show in a portrait photography, and everyone has his own preference: some prefer a "honest" trampy look, fantasizing about the possibilities, which in such cases may appear more realistic:
and some prefer the illusion of innocence, even if that is only a façade and they know it, fantasizing even more:
…and all of them are beautiful. Of course I have my own preferences, but I shoot and post all, trying to not make them obvious… what are yours?
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Continuing the beautiful portraits series, how about some blue eyed blondes?
Not bad at all… but some brown eyed brunettes?
Or a killer blue eyed brunette:
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After brown eyes, how about a taste of of blue? Yes. I thought so… but still not perfect, I could have cropped a bit from her neck and have more sharpness at the eyes (the photo is unaltered digitally).
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