Category: flower

Lego-like

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We’ve been landscaping around our home and dug up many of the perrennials for relocation. Some of the vegetation stobbornly holds ground like this tiny cluster of Forget-me-nots. Kind of reminded me of the lego clusters of flowers my kids played with (and I still have!)

Surprise bokeh

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In photography, bokeh ( /ˈboʊkə/ boh-kə, Japanese: [boke]) is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.”  Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—”good” and “bad” bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions. (Wikipedia)

I wasn’t trying to create this effect when shooting the irises just outside my front door the other morning, but was delighted to see the result.

What I was going for, besides the water droplets, was the hairy, caterpillar sections and their shadows.

Promising

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We’ve almost used up all of last year’s wild blueberries from the freezer.  I’m thankful to find wild blueberry blossoms in my yard indicating a bountiful harvest come.  Yum!

 

 

May 2011 desktop calendar

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Here’s a May calendar for you to place on your desktop. You can find a specific resolution here.

This picture was taken on Lily Pad Lake in Ignace last year. You can read about the circumstances of capturing this image here and here.