A New Orchid

I bought a new orchid @ Trader Joe's. It was difficult to choose ONE, the store in Redding had so many lovely orchids to pick from. I now have two orchids, so it's the beginning of a small collection.  ;)

A recent photoshop effort. There are so many choices of paths and tools and styles and brushes and textures and filters that The digital artist can almost endlessly restyle every project. I bought some wonderful brushes from creative market today, by artist Kyle's Pro Design Tools. They are actually presets that make inking, drawing, painting, and coloring easy in photoshop. Totally worth the few bux he's asking!

Skinny Depth of Field, Pincushion Flower

I love the delicious blur around the delicate focal flower in this photo, even if I took it myself! Used the Canon EF 50mm 1.8 lens and Lightroom 4.

Black and White Flower

Tried a flower in black and white; this is a blue Love in a Mist. AAck! Now the crop looks awkward to me. Going back to Lightroom...

flowering quince with bokeh

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