Friday flowers | regular random

Close-up, purple agapanthus. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

…  five minutes with some agapanthus

I’m really enjoying that delicious lull between Christmas and early January, when the city’s commuters are granted an extra couple of hours in bed, and my early morning walks are free of the usual traffic noise and pollution. In that calm, I find myself much more aware of the world around me.

Not that the agapanthus is easy to miss.

It seems that every garden and roadside, every park and verge is home to clumps of these large, mainly purple, flowers.

Agapanthus flowers. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

And, standing at waist-height, they are ridiculously easy to photograph — even for “she-of-the-dodgy-knee”. Easy to spend five minutes photographing in fact.

So my Friday Flowers are also a  RegularRandom offering this week.

Close-up; purple agapanthus buds. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

Budding flower, white agapanthus: Su Leslie, 2017

Close-up; purple agapanthus buds. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

Budding flower, white agapanthus: Su Leslie, 2017

Close-up; purple agapanthus buds. Image: Su Leslie, 2017

RegularRandom is a challenge hosted by Desley Jane at Desley Jane Pictures. If you would like to join:

• choose a subject or a scene
• spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
• try to not interfere with the subject, instead see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it
• have fun!
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