Reflected flowers

Here is my shinny spoon again. This one was taken about a month ago at the park. These reflections are always a challenge to get down on the ground and close enough with the macro lens and keep my image out of it. We are expecting our first snow tomorrow, which has held off for a couple of months!

Weeds

I found these exploding pods along the edge of empty Guernsey Reservoir. Fun use of my macro lens. And I can not tell you what weed this is, but it is at least 2 to 3 feet tall.

And an update of why the reservoir has no water - they are repairing the out take tunnels.

Flowers from Grand Lake

These are from the Grand Lake week that I have not posted before. Need to do some serious computer file and sd card clean up.  I have a couple of kick back days at a beautiful spot looking and listening to Mineral Creek. I am about 5 files from Silverton at about 9 thousand feet.

And WOW, I actually have internet but radio is bad.

This one is from the rose garden in Cheyenne.

Flowers

 These are random flowers pulled from my ready to post file. I need to find time between playing to down load photos that are still in the camera.

Flowers from Emerald Lake

This is an Indian Paint brush that I climb a short hill at the lake.

 Had to take this one. A WIN had walked away and was photographing a bunch of yellow flowers. I got all excited but when I got there I saw that they were past their prime. She liked all the color. Guess I like this one because it is so far gone.

 The last two were also on the hill side. Was not happy with the blue one when I noticed on the computer that I missed the top half of the 2nd flower. On a steep hill bent over, camera on a monopod and just trying to not fall down the hill. This is a Blue Flax.

And this one...couldn't find it in the book.

Pansies, pansies, pansies

More flowers, I like flowers and they are easy to shoot if the wind is not blowing.  These were taken in downtown Grand Lake. I always enjoy the flowers that others take care of since I am off playing in the mountains. Earlier this summer I actually planet some pansies in my mini garden.

The flower box was on the side of the small grocery store we used in Grand Lake.

Flowers again -- yellow ones

This the season for flowers. And I have posted a lot of them because they are easy to find and shoot, unlike the hours I spend on water drops and glass reflections. With these I took the 3 pound camera with me to the park with the macro lens on it. This is much easier to do as I can put it in the bike basket.  My mini tri-pod lost a leg and will have to take something else next time. :-(

And these were all at the park and with new one blooming weekly.

Blue flowers on a spoon

This is another attempt of reflections in the spoon with my contortions on the ground and attempting to keep my reflection out of the image. The lower dark spot is my camera bag that I was using to stabilize the heavy camera. The upper dark spot is a large rock.

Spring yellow

Here are some more yellow flowers, these are from the Spring crop at the Botanic Gardens.

Spoon again and yellow flowers

Here is my shiny Wal Mart spoon with a reflection. This time with help from Kent to keep it up right. I have decided this technique is for younger, more agile photographers with the on the ground contortions I have to go through.



Lots of this yellow flower were blooming.

White flowers

These are not as striking as the purple flower from yesterday and surviving in the wild. They are very small and about the size of a quarter.

Daffodils

These are daffodils that are at the Botanical Gardens.

On on the sorry state of the other desktop, it was DOA  when I took it into the Computer Services. They are in the process of recovering the files onto a external hard drive.

Flowers

From the "file". These were taken inside the botanical Gardens earlier this year when the weather was awful. Today the weater is not much better since it is foggy ( I am not going out), rainy and chilly. 

Tuesday's snow again

These are from the snow on Tuesday. Today is again gloomy with snow again this pm and tomorrow. Could get 5 to 8 inches - shish.

Daffodils 3 views

These were taken last week and not today since it is again snowing. This is one photo that has been  cropped in two different ways. As Edwin would say- there's another picture in the picture.

This morning I went back to the patch of daffodils to see if there was a photo opp.  They didn't far so well.

Flowers instead of snow

We are in our in a snowy month and again it is snowing. We could get up to 9 inches.

Tiny little flowers

Again found little treasures at the Botanical Gardens. Each flower was about the size of a quarter.

Inside flowers

Once again the Botanical Gardens had some great flowers.

Spring!

Found these little spring time flowers outside peaking out of the ground at the Botanical Rose Garden. Nice today, 50's but very windy. Now if only March and April were not our snowiest months.

And the rest of the orchid

Here is the whole flower from yesterday's post. The blue behind the orchid created a nice contrast and isolates the flower. The large blue tubes are filled with water for climate control in the Botanical Garden building.