Flower Macros – January 2021
/This past week has been a swirl of stressful news…events in DC, pandemic stats and the UK variant, realizing that too many people have complete trust in and idolize a person (our President) that is not trustworthy. I did several rounds of macro photography of flowers to try to regain my equilibrium…maybe the activity helped for a little. I used my phone with a 5x magnifying glass (built-in LED) attached with a rubber band; I had my clicker on the lanyard to control the shutter so I could focus on getting the phone into the position I wanted with the other hand.
The first-round subject was some alstroemeria petals that has fallen from the bouquet I bought more then 3 weeks ago. I embedded them in a thin sheet of ice. I popped the ice off the lid I had used as a container and put them on a red glass plate. I quickly discovered that pouring a little water on the ice made it easier to get the images I wanted….petals, ice with bubbles and cracks, red glass plate underneath – sometimes all three and sometimes just ice and glass.
The second-round subjects were the flowers I bought in the early morning of January 6th (the events of the day are probably going to be seared in my memory a much as the day Kennedy was assassinated and 9/11). There are alstroemeria in the bouquet that were buds on the day of purchase and are now fully open. There are also other flowers….they call it a ‘field mix’ and I like the variety! Enjoy the slide show.
