Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (22)
MrsRatbag
I love this! What a marvelous view and an excellent closeup!
soffy
So amazingly beautiful,fantastic details and colors***
Cyve
Great closeup !
Jay-el-Jay
A fine photograph of this flower with a cool name.
giulband
Wonderful close up !
moochagoo
Superb macro and colors.
jayfar
Wonderful colours and definition Andrea.
Mark-David-Rogers
Beautiful flower, so vibrant and great detail. Well done.
Faemike55
Beautiful capture! My over-active imagination saw this as a pod for some alien creature to jump out from and attack the unwary traveler
goodoleboy
Stupendous closeup, with lots of bright color, of the Ranunculus center, Andrea. Actually, I never knew the species had a pistil.
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Right into the naughty bits. Nice one Andrea!
Katraz
For some reason I wasn't expecting a garden type, Great macro.
Juliette.Gribnau
superb macro !
blinkings
Stunning Andrea.
jendellas
WOW, that looks like fire!!!!
dakotabluemoon
Wow about knocked me out with this one awesome image girl.
anahata.c
Terrific, Andrea. The flickr shot is, too---what a pair---because you surrounded it withg all that black, and the flower winds up looking like a big puff-pastry or a wild woman's hat, I love how you isolated it. Here, you closed-in and got that close-up high-power that artists like Georgia O'keeffe loved to paint. (I'm not suggesting that you're emulating her or even influenced by her: You don't need to be as you have your own vision. But she comes to mind when I see flower closeups like this.) These flower closeups that you're doing---they really are powerful, revealing just how much power is contained in a flower. A big orange burst of power---wonderful work, Andrea. There's a little cosmos in there...
kgb224
Such an amazing flower and capture. God bless.
auntietk
Whew!! Sexy! This is a gorgeous shot. Warm, brilliant and lovely. VERY nicely done!
ia-du-lin
wonderful closeup, great colors!
zmarek
Beautiful and very artistic image. Super.
danapommet
This is a magnificent macro capture Andrea and an amazing shaped flower on the FlickR side!