Day 44 – Optimistic
“Daffodils are an optimistic flower, and foolproof. You know what Shakespeare said: “Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.” ~ Tasha Tudor There are no daffodils in […]
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“Daffodils are an optimistic flower, and foolproof. You know what Shakespeare said: “Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.” ~ Tasha Tudor There are no daffodils in […]
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty, ~ Dorothea Dix I took this shot at my Mother’s house. She had this lovely […]
“To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.” – Andri Cauldwell Sometimes the light makes a thing even more beautifully […]
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” ~ Gerard De Nerval Right now nature is taking a bit of a winter break. I am not a big one for buying cut flowers but now […]
“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” – Elliott Erwitt This is a bright red poppy. Or at least it was. I really like how this edit brings out the patterns of the veins […]
“October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” ~ Keith Donohue This pretty little soft pink rose is flowering in my front garden. As I write […]
“I think it’s because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the […]
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore I spent a lovely hour or so the other morning in my garden shooting different flower pictures. The sun […]
“When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.” ~ Srikumar Rao I love how the bee’s colours seems to be match the middle of this flower perfectly and how his wings and the folds in […]
“The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee” ~ Emily Dickinson