Feeling Colourful

While there can be nothing better than a nice black and white shot to bring out a mood, a nice bright colourful photograph brings things to life.  As you've seen in print here several times before, I have a dislike for the warm weather, but a little bit of warmth is needed in order to bring the flowers to bloom and fill our yard with a rainbow of life.  These little pansies are the size of a nickel, but their colours are magnificent.  I usually buy some every year when we begin to plan our garden and figure out what will end up in our flowers pots, but it wasn't necessary this year.  It's kind of windy here at the Head Office, and I guess Mother Nature must have blown some of their seeds around because they began to sprout up on their own in several different spots of the lawn.  As mentioned in the previous update, I really like taking flower photographs when you can see some of the pollen has been spread around the petals.  If you look at the two large blue petals at the top of the photograph, you'll see that Mother Nature did a good job of spreading some yellow dust all over them.  The photograph was taken at f/6.3, 1/80sec, ISO 400 at 60mm and the image was magnified thanks to the use of a Macro lens.  Sometimes it is the littlest of things that can bring the most joy.