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!
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!
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 (18)
giulband
Very fine capture !!!!!!
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
SunriseGirl
If the beauty of the blooms in this superb photo is anything to go by you will have an abundance of gorgeous, delicious fruit. :) Best of luck. Thanks for sharing.
Juliette.Gribnau
I love how you managed to capture the flower so sharp and clear and kept the leaves so soft
pat40
so Lovely
X-PaX
Beautiful capture Andrea.
jayfar
Delicate and beautiful.
Glendaw
Awesome POV you have captured the gorgeous colors of the open and unopened petals so well. The dew/rain drops look awesome as they rest on the dark green leaves and delicate petals. Good timing and great camera work Andrea.
wysiwig
I'll be with you in apple blossom time I'll be with you to change your name to mine ~ The Andrews Sisters, 1941 A song my parents danced to even though it is wildly antiquated today. These gorgeous flowers always remind me of that and that California was covered in orchards when we first arrived. There is even a place named Apple Valley near Los Angeles. Unfortunately it no longer has any apples.
jendellas
Beautiful!!!
irisinthespring
Gorgeous capture!
helanker
Very lovely apple blossom. Our appletree has not comed that far yet, but the cherry tree has lovely flowers now.
CavalierLady
Ahhhhhh. I spent May Day at sunrise one year at Stonehenge and these will always remind me of the apples of Avalon at Glastonbury! Sweet!
Adobe_One_Kenobi
My fruit trees were the same last season, hope for something better this time around.
MrsRatbag
A beauty! I haven't seen my sister's trees when they're blooming, I fear it's too late this year to have a look. One of these years!
danapommet
Lovely photo and I like the soft colors that are coming out!
anahata.c
Very sweet capture of apple blossoms...they're so distinctly round and bulbous, I guess a little like their fruit. And they're wet here, which gives them real charm. You always bring us right into the flower...a very delicate sensual capture. Hope you get fruit this year. (Did you ever think what would happen if people 'flowered'? Why do only plants get to flower? So, when people visited in May, they'd say, "you have petals all over your floor---don't you clean up after you've flowered???" And you'd have little stems and dried buds in your hair, which would fall out in a few weeks...You'd have bees too...If your neighbors DIDN'T flower, you'd explain "they're not a flowering race...they don't flower...but they have really sweet fruits...")
Katraz
We have fruit on the one in our new garden I hope yours has some too.