Flowers in the back yard

OK, as I have been reminded it’s been a while since I last updated... no good excuses really (unless slipping down stairs and almost breaking a toe and a metatarsal bone counts?)

Good news - I have a new toy! After much persuasion ("why don't you...OK!" - time elapsed = 0.2 seconds), I've lashed out and upgraded the old faithful 300D to a shiny new 40D. So far, all I can say is wow! I can see we'll have a lot of fun together.

Thankfully the 300D isn't hitting the scrap heap just yet - Michelle has decided to give photography a try to, so it has gone to a good home. I'm really glad, because as much as everyone with new shiny dSLRs looks down on it, it really was a groundbreaking camera. 4 good years service :)

Anyway, because of the above mentioned incident involving stairs and sensitive and fragile bones in my foot I haven't ventured too far with the camera recently - hence these shots are of flowers in the back yard.

This first one I took this shot during a light rain shower. The light was pretty poor, but I wanted to get the shot while the water was still on the buds. I was at full zoom, and bumped up the ISO to 800 to get enough light - possibly too much looking at it on screen, but print size it looks ok. This shot is cropped - an uneven colour in the background of the shot was distracting, so given my limited photoshop skills I decided to crop... one day I'll get around to learning how to photoshop properly!



The next few are nothing technical, nothing special, just a few shots of the Cammelia in my yard - a good reminder of the beauty of Spring.