We had some more family birthdays to celebrate…
We went somewhere, which I will get to later…
I was playing around with the macro setting on my camera…
Which is weird, because I don’t actually have a macro lens…
Anyway, it does let you take nice close-ups, while making the backgrounds get all blurry…
Sometimes, if you aren’t the right distance away, it makes the foreground blurry too…
Well, that one I just used a regular setting, because those flowers were far away, but they did add a nice burst of color to that hillside…
I took all these just walking around the outside of my wife’s aunt and uncle’s house, not far from where we live, in San Diego…
Once again, I should probably apologize to all of you who live where there is five feet of snow on the ground…
Look, a bee! They aren’t extinct yet!
Okay, technically, those aren’t flowers at all…
But I always love taking pictures of flowers. My dad used to take lovely pictures of flowers.
But I really want to get a macro lens… then I could take like photos of individual water drops dripping off a leaf… super close-up… that would be sweet…
Until then, these will have to do.
Pouring My Art Out 
Great photos Arthur.
thanks
Nice shots. My camera has a “flower” setting that allows the same sort of background blurry effect. It’s hard to go wrong with good shots of flowers.
It is almost like taking advantage of nature…
A mackerel lense? Me son,me son. Is ya from the east, is ya?
Awesome flowers. We have them too – as soon as it warms up above -20 C, three feet of snow melts, we rake, we fertilize and we plant. And then about 3 months after that, just before it snows again, we will see at least two buds (and maybe a Fred or Danny too – Ha!)
I do want a mackerel lens… and a smelt lens, and a flounder lens…
Bwahahaha!
As an aside Art, i’m back doing a Sunday post over at MarkB’s http://markbialczak.com/2016/03/06/back-in-the-saddle/comment-page-1/#comment-77088 If you get a chance to drop by for a visit please do. Thanks!
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Pretty.
thanks