Wild flower sketches

There are a lot of tiny wild flowers growing on the college campus, many not bigger than a centimeter across. They come in different shapes and colors and are a part of a beautiful miniature world. As a way of observing them and recording them I started sketching them many times their size. 

Grows along the ground, 1 -2 cm across

White with yellow center, tall stalks, 1.5 - 2 cm across

Lavender color, 2 cm across

White with tall stalks, 1 cm across

Light lavender, 2 cm across

Yellow with red lines in the center, 1 cm across

Dark pink, 0.5 cm across

Blue, 1 cm across

Roses

White beauties

Flower Fantasies

As I have already mentioned before, I seem to have a helpless fascination for flowers and can't stop clicking them. Here are some more photos as a result of this madness. :)

Stills of Beauty

Nature is always alive with movement and life, ever changing, never still.

The best a photograph can do is capture a single moment, freeze a small slice of time.

That maybe a photograph's limitation, but it is more than enough to get a sense of the breathtaking loveliness of nature and record a unique but fleeting moment of beauty forever.

(ok, maybe not forever. After all, a photo can get deleted, destroyed by a malicious virus, faded by old age, spoilt by water, torn by kids, thrown in the trash, and....anything else? You see, lots of horrible things can happen to prevent it from lasting forever, but I think you get the idea. :))

 

 

                               

My experiments with Color

There is a feature in my camera called selective color which allows you to choose a maximum of three colors in your frame and leaving those colors, turns the rest of the photo into black and white. You can also control the range of the shades and tints that will be included. For instance, I chose just red in the first photo while in the last, only three colors (pink, orange and green) were selected, but both the dark orange and light orange were included as shades of the same color.
The different effects that can be created are just endless. 

A New Beginning

I got a new camera! Actually I received it as a gift a few months ago and the only reason nothing has been posted about it until now is that I was too lazy to do it.

So now I have upgraded from my humble and small compact camera (a Canon Powershot A530, in case anyone is interested) to a DSLR, the bigger, better and heavier Nikon D5100.
So far, I have had great fun with it and I'm still learning and exploring all its possibilities, which are numerous. The only thing I missed about the old camera was its light weight.  While getting used to the new one, I discovered that I could now easily do things that were difficult before, like taking portraits or pictures of food, for instance.

Some of the first pictures I took with my new camera were of flowers. I have a fascination for flowers and can't seem to click enough of them. :)

Flowers- strange and beautiful

Pretty Petals