These are the Nootka rose, native to these parts, taken at Fern Cove Nature Preserve on Vashon Island, in Washington State.
They said it wasn’t going to rain today…
Category Archives: Flowers
R’s & S’s for Cee
A little mid-week madness.
First I thought of roses:
Then I thought of irises:
Then I saw this little sparrow:
For Cee’s Mid-week Madness Challenge: word that contains the letters R and S.
My 2020 blues…and purples
Clearly I have a fixation on blue and purple flowers…Maybe an intervention is warranted?
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers-blue or purple.
Ruffled, purple heart
Fading rose
Deep purple blues
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Lest we forget…
In memorium of Armistice Day, and in appreciation for all veterans for their service.
When we were in England in 2018, the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, there was a very moving memorial installation based on poppies. It was an amazing work of art, both in the creation of every individual poppy and the very careful placement to get the overall effect.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Dark Red.
Pretty in pink
These dahlias are valiantly blooming even though the weather has not been very friendly of late.
Any way you look at it…
My rose is about done now after a windy, rainy week and last light the wind changed and it’s gotten fairly chilly. Still it was a nice little bloom. I’ve been playing with different ways to use the picture of it.
Here are a couple of different black and white treatments. One on the lighter side and one on the darker side.
Nik collection Antique plate II effect. 
Nik collection pinhole effect.
Since last February I’ve been experimenting a lot with different photo processing methods. I’ve spent a lot of time looking at different ways of creating and using monochrome…you’d think it would be simpler in black and white. But there are so many different ways to take the color out and adjust the light and dark that it seems harder than plain old color. Lately I’ve been rather liking applying the monochrome partially or overlaying the monochrome and color photos with different layer blend modes.
Posted as part of Friendly Friday: Two ways (Actually I used 4) and Brashley Photography’s Mid-week Monochrome.
If you take an interest in different photo processing methods you might like to take a look at the one-to-three photo processing challenge, on my other website.
My rainy day rose
Sometimes I obsess on things. These past few days it has been this rose just outside my workroom window. Likely the last rose of the season. Something about how it started to bud as the weather turned cold and has that little bit of bruising charms me. Or maybe it is the delicate pink during this season of brilliant reds, oranges and golds in the autumn foliage.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
