Revisiting flowers from this summer.

[alfredo]

[Solly Mack]

1. I love bugs!

I love flowers too. Just something about bugs...

I really like the second flower!

[alfredo]

4. The bugs help make flowers possible.

[Solly Mack]

7. yeah...but I'd like'em even if they didn't.

I kept my front porch covered in flowers and plants so creepy crawlies would arrive. I got to see a lot of baby praying mantises that way. One year 3 yellow garden spiders made their webs in different spots around my porch. People were afraid to come to my door. I just laughed at them. Mind you, it was always neat and well planned. That way we could sit out and enjoy the view.

I used to get birds nesting in my hanging baskets...got to see their babies grow and take off on their own.

[alfredo]

8. I love Macro flowers and bugs.

We have flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. I will have to dig up the cricket image. It was on a Lantana.

[Callalily]

2. These are just BEAUTIFUL!

And it's amazing how you got that bug to pose at the perfect spot! ;-)

It's nice to see a photo with color. Everything here is white, white, white!

[alfredo]

5. Thanks. That bug was such a prima dona. She insisted on

Patagonian glacial water collected in the shadow of a Lactating Llama . She claims it brings out her natural sheen.

[Celebration]

3. Nature sure knows how to do color combinations n/t

[alfredo]

6. Flowers are such trollops.

[juxtaposed]

9. all are so nice, soft light a colors. I have a hard time with yellow in heavy light

[alfredo]

10. It was a light overcast, so the colors weren't washed out too bad.

I did a bit of PP. I tweaked DR, saturation, white balance, and curves. A small bit of wavelet sharpen too.

I made no attempt to represent a real flower.

[Alameda]

11. Fabulous! Thanks....

[alfredo]

12. Yeah, I'm getting antsy to get out and photograph people.