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untitled flowers 3 (azaleas: serpyllifolium)

Posted by danthro (Suburbia, United States) on 13 March 2008 in Plants & Nature.

EARLY SPRING FLOWERS SERIES 3 of ? (probably about 16 or so, but will likely be interrupted several times beginning next week)
(these are all from 2008)

WINNER OF THE DAY: KEVIN FALK (also an all around great photographer). Thanks so much to Kevin for mentioning azaleas to me two days ago, that led me to the Azalea Society of America webpage where I saw a photo of an almost identical looking flower, serpyllifolium, a type of azalea. (If you think I'm wrong about the flower type, please let me know.)

from looking at some of your blogs i can tell that not everyone is so fortunate to have flowers blooming in their parts of the world now and many are itching for spring time, so i decided to walk around and photograph different flowers. i haven't had a chance to do much of any processing on these aside from a few minutes in picasa but i figured this would also be good to leave you with while i'm away thursday to sunday on a trip. hope you enjoy them!

any tips on photographing flowers? composition is especially much harder than it looks in nature and i already noticed some of the bright reds seem to get a sort of glare on them and some of the lighter ones got washed out. apologies in advance if some of them didn't come out very sharp, etc. there are some i might normally have thrown out but i also wanted to find out what these different flowers are called.

Comments, feedback, criticism, suggestions, etc. are always appreciated. Thanks!
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SONY DSC-W55
1/20 second
F/5.2
ISO 320
19 mm

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