It's been a rather grey month of December. For the record, the month of November wasn't very colourful either. So, while we wait for some snow to arrive, I thought you might all enjoy a little injection of colour into your internet lives today. Since today also happens to be my Mom's birthday, I thought it would be appropriate to dig out a photograph from the archives from her old flowerbed. My parents recently moved into a new house with a large yard so I'm thinking that I might have some new flowers to photograph next year. These flowers are from a few years back and one of those photographs that I intended to post, but then got lost in time. I guess it works out for the best. I now get to use them to help celebrate my Mom's birthday, and as I mentioned, to give you all a little dose of colour. This photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/2500sec, ISO 100 at 45mm. I've always been a fan of having blurred backgrounds in my flower photographs. Especially when the backgrounds have lots of colour in them. To achieve this, I try to focus on a flower that has a either lots of other flowers behind it or to a side. I then move so that the flowers that I want in focus are near the bottom of my frame, use a large aperture and snap away. This one worked out pretty well. Happy Birthday Mom!
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