Gianna's Visions

[Gi_Venus]

Naked with music in the dark 2

 

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Fungus in the grass

 

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Sunset at Wickham Park

 

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Self portrait - left eye

 

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Lantana Flower

 

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Lantana close up

 

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Salvia coccinea

 

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Tagetes lionei

 

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It is amazing what may be under our noses and everyday we walk by never noticing that beauty lies before us in all kinds of places. This is a small yellow flower in the yard less than a centimeter across..not too noticeable until one takes a closer look, probably a species of Oxalis I will find out and amend this post later.

 

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How extravagant the Azalea blossom

 

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Lantana shot number three back ground colored out with black.

 

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Blooming Pineapple plant...yup I am going to have a pineapple.

 

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Another Oxalis species Got to love these little flowers.

 

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self portrait of an odd sort.

 

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Lilies

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

WOW!!!!

That is just gorgeous!

 

[Gi_Venus]

WOW!!!!

That is just gorgeous!

thank you Salvor At first look it was so so, but when the back ground clutter is cleared away it becomes striking.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

thank you Salvor At first look it was so so, but when the back ground clutter is cleared away it becomes striking.

One of my early photo classes we had to shoot three rolls focusing just on backgrounds. It was brutal but really helped learn to see every element of a photo.

 

[Gi_Venus]

One of my early photo classes we had to shoot three rolls focusing just on backgrounds. It was brutal but really helped learn to see every element of a photo.

lol I could benefit from such training. Many times I use the editing process to make a photo better when had I done it with greater planning and study I could have saved myself a lot of work. The use of lights and back drops for instance.

 

[Gi_Venus]

On the roadside are small flowers that grow....most of us are oblivious to them.
I do not know the names of the next two flowers that I will show here.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Satisfactory, Gi_Venus, most satisfactory. What camera/lens combination are you using for the macro shots? I'm impressed, really I am.

 

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Roadside Flower 2

 

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Satisfactory, Gi_Venus, most satisfactory. What camera/lens combination are you using for the macro shots? I'm impressed, really I am.

Thank you voluptuary_manque
I am using a digital camera Panasonic DMC-TZ3 Lumix with leica optics. I wish I had to money to invest in proper equitement. The focus is hit and miss meaning one relies on the cameras ability to focus on the object intended...very much a lesson in frustration. This particular camera does pretty good most of the time, my success rate is high. Todays challenge was high wind gusts whipping the little flowers about as I tried to shoot them. But I have to admit , I do not show my failures .

 

[Gi_Venus]

Sometimes something as simple as a leaf catches the eye, A young wild grape leaf.

 

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Male Cardinal