Peony Petals

Just one photo for Nancy's photo challenge, Your Sunday Best.  Take a Sunday drive over to A Rural Journal and enjoy the views of other talented photographers.
 

Texture Tuesday & Gerbera Daisies

At $5.00 each Gerbera daisies are an expensive flower.  Just imagine a whole bouquet of gerbera daisies! But when inspiration comes at five dollars for two weeks, it's priceless. Flowers are one of my favorite subjects to photograph. To grow weary of the patterns, textures, and color is simply not a possibility in my world, so I snap photograph after photograph trying to capture that ephemeral beauty that flowers exude.   

The above photo was processed in Elements 10 with two layers of Kim Klassen's texture, Paper love. 

Macro reveals the minute details.  The perspective changes and instead of a flower I see lashes around a soulful brown eye that beguiles bees with a song of love. 

Another textured daisy softly peers up at French text created from a brush by French Kiss.  A bit of levels adjustment and red color filter joined two layers of Kim's Grunged Up 2 texture to achieve the ethereal look I wanted.

Now spent with drooping petals and a blind eye; the Gerbera daisies gave their all for me and my camera and I am grateful.  

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They Overstayed Their Welcome

Carnations are one of those flowers that people relegate to the 'filler' file.  Use the confused, multi-petaled flower just to fill in the gaps and round out a design or bouquet.  A carnation standing on its own?  Nah, not on my table or so some people feel. I'm at the other end of the spectrum or was...until today.  As of today, I'm seriously tired of carnations. What's a good thing when money is tight and you want a bit of long lasting color and fragrance becomes a bad thing when you want somehting new and different to decorate the mantle and photograph.  I wish the darn things would just fade away now.  Yes, there's a few brown edged petals,but nothing major. After nearly two weeks, I've run out of ways to photograph the puffs of pink, so they need to go.  The carnations have overstayed their welcome.

This is it...I'm not going to take one more shot of the pretty in pink flowers.  This is the last of the carnation photos for a while.

 Did I just hear a collective sigh of relief? 

I processed this photo in Elements 9 using Texture 40 from Ellenvd on Flickr and Kim Klassen's dusty rose texture.   

Tomorrow I'll have the next chapter of my Cape Cod story up.  I hope you'll stop by and take the journey with me.