bouquet on the limb

Is this a long shot of a bunch of flowers on a tree, or an extreme close up of a man's boutonniere (yes, I know what that word means) worn over his Hawaiian shirt?

shaded petals

I always think this flower looks shy.

warm embrace

Come on, doesn't this remind you of a hug?  Or a vicious web of deceit....  That's right, you hordes of tens of readers, I'm actually alive and we are off of robot-automated posts.  This is the legit stuff right here.  

tippity top

This is a shot looking directly down on a particularly tall, skinny flower.  The very tip is in focus, and the body quickly recedes into a blurred nothingness of orange and green.

up, up, and away

Yep, same flower.  Super fuzzy, but I like how the crest of the flower pedals kinda burst towards the top of the shot.

up, up

Same flower as earlier.  Actually, when I took these shots, I didn't look through the lens--I just held the camera down low and hoped for good stuff to come out of it.

up

The stem of a flower; the wind was blowing, and it created a nice blurred effect that I really like.

antennae II

In my theme of antennae, and of things that take a lot of effort to do relative to the gains, here's a picture of some honeysuckle.  These are my favorite flowers.  I used to spend hours at my grandma's and by our pond out back picking apart the stems, pulling out the interior strand of plant, and licking the tiny drop of honey-like dew from the core of these wonderful smelling buds.  After taking this picture, I tried to relive that moment, only to realize that you get a tiny, tiny amount of tasteful pleasure for a good deal of work.  It's kinda like watching Jurassic Park, and realizing that you misremember how awesome the graphics were....

shoo, fly

A little guy atop a little flower.  The tricky thing with a macro lens is that the range in which things are in focus is very, very narrow.  Fortunately, the wings, mouth and eyes are all pretty equally deep here and hence crisp: you can see the intricate film of his wings, the geometric patterns of his eyes, and the delicate parts of his tiny mouth.

what's up, buddy

This reminds me of gummy bears.  [Bud > hair > hairy bud > haribo > gummy bears.]

topical and girlie

A flower with a cat stalking it (or me) in one of the local gardens.  I'm all for gardens, but the folks out here in c-don seem borderline obsessive at times....

barbed wire love

OK, not really barbed wire, but the rusty fence and flowers gives that vibe. Despite the mistitle, there's a bonus at the end of this post for my punk rock friends.