Image: Su Leslie 2021
Macro Monday
Not everybody’s cup of tea
macro photography
Focus on the detail
“The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.” — Elizabeth Lawrence. Image: Su Leslie 2021
“Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we’re all trying to understand the world around us.” — Roderick MacKinnon
I’m a detail kind of person. The kind who notices when pictures are hung a fraction off; who will unpick and re-sew a seam until it’s just right. The kind of person who not only owns plating tweezers, but actually uses them.
No surprise then that I love macro photography. Nor that a walk around my garden results in an abundance of close-up shots — but not one that shows the shape and structure of the garden itself. Though given that it’s (euphemistically) a “work in progress” — maybe that’s no bad thing.
Cosmos: the garden gift that keeps on giving. Image: Su Leslie 2021
Image: Su Leslie 2021
Image: Su Leslie 2021
Image: Su Leslie 2021
Image: Su Leslie 2021
New buds. Image: Su Leslie 2021
Beauty in decay. Image: Su Leslie 2021
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge | It’s a small world
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Harvest
Image: Su Leslie 2021
Macro Monday
Your world for a moment
Image: Su Leslie 2021
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.”— Georgia O’Keeffe
Macro Monday #macromonday
Monday Macro
First flowers. Image: Su Leslie 2020
About this time last year, the Big T and returned from a road trip to Whanganui, carrying a hydrangea bush, gifted by my step-mother from her garden.
“How to travel with a hydrangea”. Image: Su Leslie 2019
Somehow, it survived two nights in a motel bathroom, a 350km car ride, and twelve months in my care.
Friday flowers; Himalayan honeysuckle
Himalayan honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa). Image: Su Leslie 2020
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