Posted on March 31, 2021
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Madame’s very lovely Mothers’ Day bouquet, two weeks on.
(An experiment with the HDR function of my new phone camera app).
Posted on January 15, 2021
Cee’s theme for her CMMC challenge this week is ‘pink’. Will this do?
Posted on October 14, 2020
I believe that this variety of rose is known as Eglantine and it’s a very old one. It’s also pink, with a yellow heart, so suitable for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pink & Yellow
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Pink, Roses, Yellow
Posted on May 20, 2020
Who can resist the heady scent of roses?
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sense of smell
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Flowers, Pink, Roses, Sense of smell
Posted on January 2, 2020
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge with the theme of ‘opposing colours’ here’s a classic subject with a classic colour contrast:
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Opposing colours
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, colours, Contrasting colours, opposing colours, Raindrops, Roses
Posted on January 29, 2019
Frank’s chosen the topic of ‘Rose’ for this week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge. I have no shortage of images of roses in my library, so the only problem was selecting one previously unposted. I think this fits the bill. It’s a French rose called ‘Pierre de Ronsard’ and I saw it last year at the annual festival of roses at Doué-La-Fontaine
Category: Flowers Tagged: Doué La Fontaine, Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Pierre de Ronsard, Rosebud, Roses
Posted on January 2, 2019
The plant kingdom is an obvious source of colourful monotones for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week, as demonstrated by this vibrant pink rose.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colourful monotone
Category: Flowers Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Close-up, Flowers, Roses
Posted on October 3, 2018
Back in July I visited the village of Doue La Fontaine during its annual rose festival. As well as displaying a huge number of different varieties of rose, there was also an exhibition of sculptures made up of roses, such as this deckchair:
Cee’s Fun ‘Foto’ Challenge: Things People Grow
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Doué La Fontaine, Roses, Sculpture, Things people grow
Posted on June 15, 2017
This slightly blown rose was standing all alone in the nearby village of Lesterps and for some reason which I cannot now remember I was unable to get very close to it for a conventional sharp flower image.
However, by cropping as I have and retaining some of the blurred, out-of-focus background (reinforced by a little vignetting and dehazing in Lightroom) I think it stands out at least as well as it would have done if it filled the whole frame.
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Flowers, focus, Lesterps, Roses, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge