It's Spring

[bje07]

No need to take care of the following flowers, I just have to go to a public botanic garden. The gardeners maintain it in my place
Enjoy the visit.
C&C welcomed.

# 1 This is not a flag , just a magnolia flower I guess as I am not keen on it botanic




# 2 I like the bokeh




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# 5

[Shadowman]

Nice series, agree about #2.

[bje07]

Thank you John.

[All3n]

You've got some beautiful colors in these pics! I especially like the one with the purple flower.

[JohnRostron]

I like the purple Anemone as well but, for me, the simplicity and the bokeh in #2 give it the edge.

John

[Wavelength]

Awesome blossoms....

[bje07]

Thank you All3n, John and Nandakumar.

[Mike Buckley]

Consider making photos like #2 but with everything in the scene being out of focus in an abstract style.

[bje07]

Consider making photos like #2 but with everything in the scene being out of focus in an abstract style.

Do you mean Mike ?
something like these?

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# 9



Personally I prefer a sharp picture with bokeh, but I agree on # 2 sharp subject is not interesting and bokeh is dull and monochrome.

[Rainforest]

The Anemone is very special. Lovely.

[Mike Buckley]

The last set of images isn't consistent with the look of the the areas in #2 that are out of focus, so they don't have as much appeal to me. The difference is that image #2 provides a distinct pattern that is especially appealing to me, whereas the other out of focus images don't.

[bje07]

The Anemone is very special. Lovely.

Thank you Susan

[bje07]

On the same shooting session, some additional pictures:

# 10 sakura




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# 13

[Marie Hass]

#10 being my favorite. I am a sucker for a white or black background.

Marie

[bje07]

Thank you Marie

[IzzieK]

All so beautiful, Jean...I've been meaning to go to the Botanical Garden but it has been raining lately and I need to finish my database. Too much work to do, so little time. I do not like the just-bokeh series though. My boring teacher in flower photography likes bokeh so much but she concentrate more on curls and shapes. It went to that point of becoming too overwhelming. I like your style better because the flowers are there for ID and admiring. Thank you for sharing.

[bje07]

Thank you so much Izzie.
I took the photos almost all at 2.4 with my new 60mm macro. I love it.

[bje07]

Some additional pictures as the garden still shows nice flowers

# 14 cherry blossom




# 15




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# 18 during PP I discovered a small animal

[skitterbug]

Hi Jean ~ Enjoyed your series of flowers! Beautiful. I didn't especially care for the Bokeh ones though only because I like "seeing" something in photos besides a blend of colors. The Cherry blossom #14 especially caught my attention. I think it is beautiful and I also enjoyed #18 - with the "animal included"....

What is #15? Fern unfurling maybe? Interesting as well!

All sharp!

[bje07]

Thank you Sandy for commenting.
You are right for # 15, I was lazy to search the translation