Blogs tagged "Spring"

I am a beleaguered Brit, wondering where Spring has gone. My passion are flowers and insects. And I am getting bored. Any ideas?

Or at least snowdrops and crocuses seem to think it is! In front of the windmill near me there's a lawn with a lot of crocuses, and a few snowdrops, and it's beginning to look really good. It may be a bit early to enjoy really nice spring weather, but the sun did come out a few times today, so...

My second Photo365 picture of a daffodil. The last one was as the sun set, this one was late afternoon. The garden was full of colour the sun was brilliant, the sky deep blue. All the daffs were glowing. I took a variety of shots from low angles using the Olympus E-P2 and 17mm lens and deliberately ...

Later nights, daffodils and sunsets, all signs spring is here! And all captured in this shot taken 30min ago. I also tried out a new filter technique I've been meaning to do using wedding veil material over the lens to give a soft mesh diffuser. It's made an interesting muting of colours but also ad...

It's been raining all day and making those small pattering sounds on the window. So here's my window looking out. Focus is on the reflections of the background tree in the drops. A wide aperture was used to make the tree branches totally out of focus and abstract in look.

It's that time of year when the snowdrops poke through the still hardened soil. I like these first signs of spring. I have a few in the garden...when I say few it's just that..three clumps of two or three flowers on each. So choosing the right one didn't take much time, but also didn't give me much ...

Hi A lot better today and raring to go .... anywhere ! The grey skies back and the cold seeping through. I do hope we can get a warm and sunny spring. One of those nice folks did a wee mod today for me, the level of that mod was superb albeit it doen so quickly. However the description of wha...