Exif data: NIKON D300, Focal Length: 105 mm, Aperture: f/4.5, Exposure: 1/125 sec, ISO Speed: 200, Flash: Not Fired
20/07/2010 at 16:38
Categories: [flora]  [macro]  
26 comments
 

• i was away last week and am still catching up with visits...this is just what I needed to see...i have stopped in this lovely garden shot!!
  elk @ 2010-07-20 20:16:06
• I like that you are capturing them as they getting ready to bloom instead of the full flower that is the norm.
  Otto K. @ 2010-07-20 20:47:06
• beautiful. i love the promise of 'those other planet things. i think tomorrow will be a glorious day. mums the word.
  Seraphine @ 2010-07-20 23:07:45
• I'd be like you, Sherri, hating to cut them back for the promise of another day. They're too beautiful! If you enjoy them now and THEN cut them, will you get them again in the fall (having your cake and eating them, too!)?
  Ginnie @ 2010-07-20 23:36:32
• Gorgeous composition and tones. Love this!
  Kala @ 2010-07-21 00:16:15
• what a pretty picture, almost looks slightly aged, i like it alot :)
  Elaine- @ 2010-07-21 00:28:37
• Wonderful colors Sherri. It's always hard to cut back blooming flowers, but sometimes things (means not only flowers) need a cut to subsequently blossom out just more beautiful...
  Uwe Eischens @ 2010-07-21 02:14:11
• Mums the word and the image! ...and where would we be without them!
  george @ 2010-07-21 05:57:54
• Love how these flowers overfill the frame.
  Marcie @ 2010-07-21 06:33:41
• Nice color and DOF here.
  Really makes those flowers pop up from the screen :)
  Ilan (@ilanbr) @ 2010-07-21 06:36:31
• enchanting composition,,,,,,,, absolutely perfect
  fabrizio @ 2010-07-21 07:09:00
• Great use of dof and they are so beautiful when almost ready to bloom. Great capture!
  Frida @ 2010-07-21 08:46:37
• this is beautiful, i love the dof that is not too shallow for the foreground flowers, but shallow enough to blur the background ones
  yz @ 2010-07-21 11:21:04
• They have such lovely colors it indeed would be hard to cut them back and with the point of view and focus control you have captured them so beautifully
  JJ @ 2010-07-21 11:34:24
• The colors. The tones. It's all quite lovely.
  Robin @ 2010-07-21 11:57:08
• Lovely shot. Beautiful framing and colors.
  
  I wouldn't be able to cut them either.
  Robin @ 2010-07-21 12:43:13
• same. i wouldn't be able to cut them back either. to my eyes the DOF seems perfectly handled here. you and Joe and Marcie do such lovely flower photographs.
  michele @ 2010-07-21 22:20:18
• Wow....these are some beautiful captured mums!!
  Sandy Weston @ 2010-07-23 12:16:04
• Beautiful colors on these flower buds!
  Andy @ 2010-07-23 18:04:25
• They are so beautiful.
  Great focus point!
  Standley @ 2010-07-24 03:15:46
• So pretty! I'm not much for mums, but I do like the color of these. I don't think I'd cut them back now, either.
  Toni @ 2010-07-24 21:13:46
• this really has great depth in it! The play of focus, defocus, and crispness of the flowers make it really vibrant!
  Arjan - PlasticDaisy @ 2010-07-25 13:52:47
• this is beautiful,
  Chris B @ 2010-07-26 07:33:20
• they look so delicate.. nice shot.. :)
  rian @ 2010-07-27 20:57:44
• these are a most vibrant and exquisite color.
  i wouldn't be able to cut them back either.
  we can always buy more mums in the fall :)
  chasity @ 2010-07-28 07:18:10
• Lovely image; I like mums a lot. In my area I have to be careful of the type of mums as some bloom too late and are lost in the cold before they ever bloom. I have one variety called 'Clara Curtis' that starts blooming in midsummer and keeps going through fall.
  Mark Johnson @ 2010-07-29 13:18:24

Iris Murdoch said, "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

These mums should be cut back so they'll bloom this fall, but I'm enjoying them too much.


A flower's appeal is in its contradictions. So delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
– Adabella Radici