I don’t know what the weather’s like where you live right now, but chances are it’s not anywhere near as nice there as it is here right now. (I KNOW that won’t hold true for some you…you don’t need to comment on’t. Thanks.)
Anyway, because of our unseasonably warm winter this year (i.e., we’ve had highs well into the 50′s almost every day since January 1), we are quite far along in terms of our spring bloomage. This morning, I got up at 7:30, and took Luke on a six-mile walk around Redmond, and in order to get myself used to hauling a chunk of extra weight in preparation for my backpacking trip this August, I bought along the whole of my camera gear as well. This turned out to be fortuitous, as 7:30-9:30 on a sunny March morning in Redmond is a perfect time to get macro photos of some of the stunning flowering plants around the area. To start, we open with an establishing shot of one of the streets in my neighborhood:
Pretty, right? That’s what I see pretty much everywhere I go…and believe it or not, I’d say that in terms of the springtime bloom, we’re only about 1/3 complete.
Next, we’ll do a mid-range shot. This is a Magnolia tree immediately outside my front door:
Then I got in close. I love macro photography, and decided that would be my focus for the rest of the walk.
I love springtime.
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