Wednesday, June 25, 2025

OK, Enough of that New York City Stuff


Man, I really messed up today.  I parked my car at CVS and noticed these beautiful bright yellow flowers right in front of me.  They are Yarrow.  So I got my little Canon T7i out of the trunk where it rides with me everywhere.  I put a telephoto lens on it that went from 88mm to 400mm because I wanted to isolate the blossoms from the background.  So I kept the lens wide open. so the background would not be sharp.  This was the first shot I took. I did a lot of different versions, some with many flowers in the frame, but this shot was the most dramatic, and I am happy with it.  It looks like it was taken in someone's garden.  In fact, these flowers were in a 4 foot wide strip between a concrete sidewalk and a macadam parking lot!  I realized now that it would be so interesting if I had taken a wide angle photograph showing where these flowers really were.  The whole time I was photographing my object was to make it look like these flowers were growing in some endless garden.

 

3 comments:

Joan Edwards said...

I love this cheery photo. It would be interesting to have seen photo #2 with concrete and sidewalk for the elements decided by Mother Nature.

Anonymous said...

A pretty flower and it looks like it is out in a field in the countryside. I agree with Joan that it would be interesting to see the flower where it bloomed. Interesting, though, how depending on what the photographer makes as the subject, the viewer can draw a whole different idea about the actual scene. Trace

Anonymous said...

We would never know that you took this photo outside of a CVS. You focused on the bright color with a leafy background. Genius! Betsey