Autumn Leaves After the Rain

All photos in this post were taken the morning after a night with rainfall. The cloudy weather added a pleasant ambiance to the mood. Several of the photos are of spiraea (also spelled 'spirea') and smoke bush (aka 'smoketree').

Wet Spiraea #1

Wet Spiraea #2

Garden Clump

Single Smoke Bush Leaf #1

Single Smoke Bush Leaf #2

Single Smoke Bush Leaf #3

Smoke Bush Leaf Tongue

Fall Curve

Yellow-Green Veins

Smoke Bush Leaf Team

Wet Spiraea #3

Wet Spiraea #4

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Garden Flora

This spring I am finding I quite enjoy going into the garden and taking pictures every day. The garden just beckons, especially in the late afternoon sun.

These are all hand-held with my 60mm macro lens, in natural light.

Pink in the Garden

In this next photo, the powerfully strong sun backlighting caused the lens (and camera) to create a pleasant "lens flare" that appears as sweeping shadow lines in the background in the original out-of-camera capture.

Sunswept

Smoke Bush Textures

Smoky Red

Red on Display

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