If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo
Sunday afternoon we went over to the grandparents’ house for dinner. My mother-in-law has the prettiest little section of flowers by her front door and sometimes it’s all I can do to keep the girls from picking all her beautiful flowers! Well, this day there was this pretty little pink rose begging me to take a picture of it. So I did. 
Isn’t the light so perfect?
I did something to this photo I very, very rarely ever do…I cropped it! I normally never do that, but for some reason today I felt like a square photo. So I cropped in close to the flower and added a texture from the Olde World Collection at Love that Shot.
It’s Sweet Shot Tuesday time again! I’ve been so busy the last few weeks, I haven’t been able to participate. But this week I just had to! We went camping this weekend and I played around with my new Lensbaby and got some awesome shots. This is one of my favorites, it says “Summer” perfectly!
Can it get any more perfect? I was out last Saturday evening with my sister shooting a photography video, and the park was full of lilac blossoms. The smell was just so sweet, I could have stayed there forever! In between some takes while shooting, I shot some flowers. The light was amazing. And the sunflare… oh my! This is as close to perfection as possible!
Taken with my 50mm lens: f/1.4; 1/640 sec.; ISO-100.
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 ).
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!
