From the Smokies back to the nursery

[pjflan7]

After several posts showing you some of the beauty of the Tennessee/North Carolina Mountains, I have a few more flower shots to show you....hope you like them. Leading off is the ever popular hibiscus bloom. I personally liked the color contrast of the red and green.



This is what is called a lollipop gerbera. I intentionally shot just the lower quadrant only to see how it would look.


This is a picture taken of a rose straight down on it. I thought the tight waves and curls was rather fascinating.


And of course, we have to have the lowly weed family too. I was driving out in the country during my lunch break not really anticipating shooting anything but I kept seeing these dandelions along the side of the road and I finally said, enough already! I am pulling over, digging the camera out and seeing what I can do with these obnoxious things. Some dandelions are really fuzzy but some have this appearance and I ended up liking this quite a bit even though it's a weed.

[macroMe]

Wow, I love that in the selection you have the magnificence of the rose followed by the humble dandelion. They are my faves of the group. Really lovely photos.
I am going to have to start looking at dandelions a bit closer - I have never seen one like this.

[windrider86]

stunning, just simply stunning. I especially like the lillipop one

[teresa pople]

Really lovely flower shots, such wonderful colour and detail

[Rian Malynn]

the loli and "wish" flowers are my favorite shots. I love that you intentionally (sp?) set the space that way. It really adds something to the photo. and that wish flower is a fav of my 5 year old...so I tend to love any pics of those. But this one looks really soft and snooth, not as fuzzy and ragged as the ones in my yard! great shots...love em!

[mstark70]

These are the Fantastic Four for sure! Amazing lighting, color, clarity, focus, dof, you name it and you nailed it! These are all really stunning images!

[Fred flyfisher]

Wow Patrick, those are really nice. I like the second one the most. Good job.

[beachcomber]

The Tennessee/North Carolina Mountain series was fantastic, and your flowers pictures are stunning. You are a very talented and have a good eye for detail and colour, excellent work

beach

[teedlepeep]

Very gorgeous set of shots there I hope you post more !! I love the "lowly weed" shot. I can't tell you what it is, but I definitely understand the pull to this. Your colors are great in all of them

[FromtheBackofaHorse]

Somehow I missed the series of the Smokies. I must go search for it. Anyway, I love all of these but my favorites are the Lollipop and Dandelion.

(One of my favorite pictures that I have ever taken includes a ton of dandelions.)