If you don’t like pretty photos, just scroll on by.
If you DO like pretty photos, well, you just might like these photos taken of some daffodils on our estate. I skillfully waited until that ‘golden hour’, as the sun was making its final descent towards the horizon and then… I STRUCK! Like a velociraptor, or some other rapidly-descending creature that brutally captures its prey. Only my prey was daffodils, and I don’t move very quickly — but you get the point…
I know they look almost surreal: it’s because the sun is so low that it’s only hitting some flowers, and not others (there are obstacles that you can’t see in the photo, like fences/trees). If you’ve ever driven or walked through some woods in the autumn (fall) and marvelled at how just the tops of the trees are set alight by the golden rays of sun, then you’ll know what I mean.
Anyway, these are the last daffodil photos I’ll be taking, so… enjoy them! Next up… um… bluebells?
There’s one more which is nice, but I couldn’t quite get the right crop on it. I’ll just leave it as a link here, if you really dig daffodils. Or my photos. Or both!
floreta
Mar 18, 2009
pshhhh the clicky link is the best one!
i dig daffodils and your pictures!
sebastian
Mar 18, 2009
Well the ‘bonus’ pic is lovely, and colourful, and more close-up… just not composed so well! Alas…
The first one might be my favourite photo for a long time, though… that one is like… a… a… MASTERPIECE!
Jo
Mar 18, 2009
I love the second one because of the interesting hazy pink background. It has a sort of impressionistic thing going on.
sebastian
Mar 19, 2009
Yeah, I noticed the pink background on the second image! I don’t know what caused it… I think the bark of a tree, or a bush maybe, with a lot of sunset light illuminating it.
I am feeling an urge to recreate a modern-day Bumble Bee photo…!
andhari
Mar 19, 2009
I feel like an old woman aww-ing over flowery pictures. Damn.
sebastian
Mar 19, 2009
Well, that’s OK Andhari! It’s not often that you see photos of flowers like these; perhaps just in some magazines. But to be honest, people are generally bored of them by now, so they don’t pop up very often. They’re pretty though, right?
That’s the entire reason I took the first photo! The flower’s looking at you. Pouting, perhaps. Or saying ‘Hi, what’re you looking at?’ It looks… cute!
Sarcastically Bitter
Mar 19, 2009
The first one is great because that one daffodil is in focus and it’s like it’s looking like you. Okay, I watched Alice in Wonderland way to much.
Daniel Cassidy
Mar 19, 2009
Every time you say “our estate”, I have to remind myself that you don’t mean the *other* kind of estate, the kind where the rest of us live, where instead of daffodils and grass we have coke cans and concrete.
sebastian
Mar 19, 2009
We have those too, but only because my father and I drink way too much coke.
I’ve also been campaigning for our own landfill + incinerator, so we never have to leave our estate, or invite those dirty waste disposal types onto our property.