Happy Spring

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flowers, Spring

Indian Paintbrush

Apple Blossom

I took both of these this morning in our yard. Shot with a Nikkor 200mm macro lens, D600 camera. I took multiple shots with varying focus points and then focus stacked them in Photoshop to get a much deeper depth of field than the macro lens gets for each one.

Welcome to April, See some Flowers

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dandelions, flowers, Spring

The first 2 were taken though a fence, they are on a neighbor’s property:

 

And some dandelions in our yard. I got these photos before Gary could spray these to get rid of them, they are not his favorite plant. He sees them as weeds, but they  can be used for a tea and for making dandelion wine. When I was growing up in the Bronx there was a vacant, trash strewn lot across the street from the tenement we lived in. In spring it was loaded with dandelions, some of our neighbors would pick the flower pedals and make wine from these. This struck me as really gross because every dog in the area urinated on those plants.

Roses

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flowers, red roses

Roses, originally uploaded by dagnyg.

Nice, small red roses on a bush on the east side of our house. All we do is water these.

Iris

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flowers, iris

Iris, originally uploaded by dagnyg.

I think this is an iris 🙂
These are growing on the east side of our house. We did not plant them, they came with the house.

Flowers, Up Close

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apple blossom, flowers, macro photography, peach blossom

Experimenting with a macro lens, I shot these photos in our yard of wildflowers and fruit tree blossoms.

Purple Wildflower

Peach Tree Blossom

Apple Tree Blossom, Closed

Apple Tree Blossom, Open