Sunday snapshots

Diane Schuller at Life’s Sweet Ordinary is a wonderful lifestyle photographer. I really enjoy visiting her blog and looking at her wonderful pictures. We’ve sent some e-mails back and forth to each other. In one of my e-mails to Diane, I told her I was going to post some of my flowers pictures, and that I hoped she’d come by and take a look. She laughed, and said that that everyone seems to take pictures of flowers!! But she quickly pointed out that she isn’t a flower snob, and that she’s taken hundreds of flower pictures herself :-) She just wants people—photographers in particular—to move beyond flowers and look around them for other picture inspiration.

So as I looked around the backyard after dinner a couple of days ago, I tried to find angles and lighting and subjects that I thought were interesting and a bit different…

Patio chair…

Fence…

Rocks & water…

Everybody takes pictures of open umbrellas — how about a closed one?? :-)

And of course, I have to include some plant & flower pictures :-) Because when you think about it, plants & flowers are the perfect photography subjects — they’re pretty, they’re colourful, and they just stand there waiting patiently for you to take their picture :-)  I did try to take pictures that are different or a bit unusual, though.

I love the shape of hosta leaves. They’re always to perfectly formed…

One lonely deformed flower bud on our cherry tree…

I love the lacy leaves of a Japanese Maple. Our tree is tiny (like, barely a foot tall!!) and branches break off every year. But somehow, it manages to stay alive…

Love this lacy purple flower too…

A single white cosmos really stands out against a dark background…

A slightly fuzzy but pretty pink impatiens with water droplets. The shape reminds me of an orchid…

I love these purple daisies…

And this is my favourite — doesn’t it look like these two daisies are hugging?? :-)

Take a look around your garden and try to see your flowers and plants from a different perspective. You just might find something you didn’t even know was there if you look close enough :-)

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Camera picture from Flickr