Banksia flowers

I have been travelling interstate over the last couple of weeks and while in Sydney stayed a few days in an outer north west suburb where the ground is sand and sandstone. These were wild flowers in the bush within a few metres of each other. They have an interesting form and naturally bright colours - there is no colour saturation applied here.

I usually have a lot of problems with photographs of flowers but these seem to work better than most. C&C welcome as usual

1.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8691/...288d3f32_b.jpg056A2123 by tonyw36, on Flickr

2.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7586/...3362b052_b.jpg056A2133 by tonyw36, on Flickr

3.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7716/...222d08b7_b.jpg
056A2134 by tonyw36, on Flickr

4.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7660/...2a57d61d_b.jpg
056A2138 by tonyw36, on Flickr

5.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8714/...f17bfb01_b.jpg

056A2147 by tonyw36, on Flickr

Nice and clear images with good DOF Tony :)

They are interesting flowers. The 2nd and 3rd images are particularly good. Perhaps the 4th is a little too bright ?

#1, #3 and #5 for me, Tony...these are great colours are you have captured them from greenie to prime...

Nice depth of field and colors! Consider using clamps and/or scissors to manage the compositions better.

Nicely done.

Thanks for all the comments.

Mike, I should do as you say but my instinct out in the field is not to interfere with the plants too much. These were in a reserve which is natural bush and does not get a large number of visitors.

The flower spikes are reasonably large, around 8 inches long, and even though I was using the macro lens it was not too hard to get a reasonable depth of field.

Kay, I think you are right about 4 being too bright. I am not always a good judge of that.

Izzie, the colours look as good in the flesh as they do in the pictures.