More from the water gardens

I returned to editing yesterday's batch of photos from Water and Garden Creations, and realized that in my eagerness to post the punchy, eye-catching shots I had skipped some of the elegant, slightly understated, simple flower compositions. These were some of my first shots of the morning, when the light was particularly soft.

Even while concentrating on flowers, I can't resist the urge to capture an insect in the scene, even a common house fly. Maybe it's the influence of the classical painting tradition of including an unsought visitor in an otherwise pristine still life of fruit and game.

I suppose this next one would qualify as "punchy" - there was so much contrast that it was easy to allow the background to go black when I exposed for my subject. I will always think of these as "shower head plants", I'm afraid.

And a return to tranquility...

Another addition - a pair of accidental catches. As I shot the bee moving around the flower, a blue dragonfly came in for a fly-by. I wish I could have caught it fully in the frame, but it rose to avoid the traffic and didn't appear at all in subsequent shots. It's still a fun sequence to me, so have a look:

As always, if you see anything that you would like to have in print, please drop me a line:

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