One of the things I wanted to shoot was some daisies but finding only a few dried ones I started to worry about a missing opportunity. Until Saturday, when walking in the Herastrau Park I noticed the daisies, not some great ones but good enough for photography.
Now am I supposed to do something with its petals?
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We know the Black Locust flowers are used for honey making, but also the Linded tree blossom are used for a popular variety of honey. Now here is the dilemma: you can use linden flowers for a nice herbal tea, so you sweeten the linden tea with linden honey or with black locust honey?
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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Some time ago I set myself the target to try shooting a chicory flower as best an I can so a few days ago in the morning, I saw from the windows of the tram a chicory bush on the side of the road. It was to late to try something that day, and in the evening when returning was already too dark. The next day I was in a rush, so skipped again, but the third day I finally took the shoot: left the home earlier, walked instead of using the tram and enjoyed the photoshot:
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 to remake this shot.
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Lately I tried a few shoots of poppy flowers, but yesterday morning I had the opportunity for a composition about this. Made just in front of my house, early in the morning when leaving for work.
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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Lately I posted a lot of rose photos (and will continue to do so). Why? because my garden (backyard and not only) is full of those flowers, see below:
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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A memory of my childhood: jam made of roses. Actually this is "dulceață" in Romanian, which is not the same as "gem"(jam), is something sweeter. You use the petals, boil them with lemon, sugar and some water and the result is a delicious sweet fruit preserve.
Speaking about food produced by my garden, I had the first harvest of strawberries this year, they were a few and the photos are quite bad, but they are real strawberries, no chemicals, no nothing:
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I think those roses are pretty cool, I like them.
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I can’t say which honey is the best, but the one made from Black Locust flowers (Romanian: salcim) is really good, with nice flavor and color. So here is how it’s made: in late spring/early summer the bees are collecting the pollen from the flowers and then making the sweet thing. Mmmm… pancakes with black locust honey, aren’t you mouth watering?
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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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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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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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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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A short pause from posting photos of beautiful and sometime nasty girls for some other beautiful things, like spring blossom. Today is all about fruits: apples, quince and strawberries. Yummmy….
I am not afraid that be bar would be raised too much, I have some really beautiful portraits still awaiting to be posted…
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Blue Forget-me-not are one of my favourite flowers, no wonder I can’t stop my camera when viewing some…
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