If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo
Iris blossoms are one of my favorite flowers. They hold a lot of memories for me from when I was growing up. When I was twelve, we moved from our trailer house in a tiny truck-stop/mining town to a real house in a real city. A real house! I was so excited! One of the first things I noticed about our new house was there were three huge bushes full of iris blossoms. They were so beautiful! I loved to pick flowers for my mom when I was little (and still do actually! May Day brought a nice little bouquet of lilacs and irises to my mom 
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Every spring we lived in that house, I’d pick bunches of iris blossoms for my mom! I’ve always wanted to plant my own iris bushes, so a couple years ago I finally got some. They turned out to be dwarf ones so they don’t grow very big. That was a bit of a disappointment, but I got over it! I love them now and I love that now my girls love them and pick them for me!
This photo was taken with my 50mm lens: f/1.4, 1/320 sec., ISO 100. I processed it in Photoshop CS3, scroll down to see a before & after!
My lilacs are starting to come out of their “shells!” We’ve had some rain today and I thought I could maybe capture some water drops on them, but those lilac blossoms are sucking up all the water! They must be pretty thirsty! If you look closely, you can see some of the rain near the inside of the leaves. I’m getting really excited to see these bloom now!
My fellow I Heart Faces contributor, Miss B, opened a new class for her Souvenir Foto School six weeks ago and we were assigned to pick one plant and document it every week for six weeks. I chose my lilac bush and it’s been so much fun to see it grow! This is the last week of the class, but I think I’m going to continue on until these finish growing completely!
I haven’t been processing these too heavily, I have found I love them as natural as can be. I’ve just enhanced what’s already there! On this photo, I used a new action from a set I’m working on. They are based on my Photo Veils and they are turning out so neat! I can’t wait to share them with you all!
I am in love with evening light. It is so perfect and it does things to your photos that’s near magical. I am putting together a tutorial on how I edited this. It’s super easy and the results are so pretty! I’ll be posting it soon at my website, OpenScrapbook.
I think spring is the perfect time for macro shots! Everything is so tiny and new! I’ve included some before and after photos, I love to see start to finish results! It’s so interesting, so I thought I’d start posting some in case you guys like to see them too!
On the second photo, I used two of my Photo Veils: Northern Lights and Grass Stains. You can find my Photo Veils and lots of photography tutorials at my website OpenScrapbook!
