Green Orchid Flower Stalk

A decent photo of my green orchid flower. I now realize I should've turned off the ceiling fan to get a crisp image. And I did use the speedlight. Need practice.

Fun with Lensbaby Spark

The Lensbaby Spark is a specialty lens with a hand adjustable bellows to vary the focus in an image. It also comes with aperture shape discs that you put in to add a particular shape to the bokeh. The results are fun and often surprising. This photo reminds me of a drawing class exercise I did years ago. Kind of an arty dreamscape... must do more...

flowering quince with bokeh

if i set the "scene" to "macro" and focus on something close it sometimes comes out nice like this.