A Year in Pictures – Rosebud

[swan_tower]

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Not to be confused with a sled.

The roses were not yet properly in bloom at Filoli — we were there in tulip season — but this one rosebud had caught a bit of water in its opening petal, which made for a nice little detail shot.

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

How beautiful!

[squishymeister.livejournal.com]

This is a really nice composition! I especially like the complexity of your aperture range of background colours. You managed to get some detail in there while still getting the nice blurred effect. Well done!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That's all due to my father, who explained aperture and shutter speed and ISO to me, then gave me a (hand-me-down) camera where I could control those things. That lesson was a major leveling up in my photographic ability.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[squishymeister.livejournal.com]

I imagine there was the leveling up noise accompanies with the camera ;)

I've been picking up some basic photography skills as well, and I'm surprised by how much more fun (no idea if that's a grammatically correct sentence... you'd never know that I'm a language therapist) it is to take pictures with those technical tweaks! The pictures end up being much more artistic :)