Sharing some pictures from the past day or so. Just playing around with different settings/compositions on flowers and stuff. I don't normally take pictures of flowers, only when I'm in the mood. So consider yourselves lucky!

Share your thoughts if you like!

1. First, the bokeh of flowers themselves


2. Playing with the depth of field


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4. The bloomiest rose. Haha.


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6. TINY itty bitty squirrel! The ones around my place had babies and they are so cute, very shy! I haven't seen the mother since last fall!


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9.Fall is coming.... nooooooooo!


This is not my serious work.

This post was edited by chantal7 on Sep 20 2009 05:54pm

We are lucky indeed, these are lovely photos

The squirrels are my special favorites!!!
There is a walnut tree in our garden and most of the nuts are on the ground now
because we cant catch up with picking them up as fast as they are falling.

As a result, we have about 3-4 squirrels from the neighborhood visiting us on a regular basis
But as it seems they are getting greedy and think that there are still not enough nuts for all them!!
This morning they were fighting each other and then ran off.

Will try to catch them on a picture later today when they are peaceful again.
If i dont come back send your prayers... the squirrels might have caught me while trespassing into their sovereign territory

Haha - they are so funny :D. You bet they are greedy! I fed them a whole bag of shelled peanuts last year, it was crazy (that was between two squirrels!). That's cool that you have a nut tree though Sounds nice!

Yeah a picture would be really funny, haha - all the squirrels! I will say my prayers so you don't get trapped

Thank you for the reply!

This post was edited by chantal7 on Sep 21 2009 08:40am

Very nice pictures Chantal I really like the one of the leaves. I love fall, just not the season that comes after it.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks! I liked that one the most too! I plan to take lots of pictures this fall - it's so beautiful. Thanks for replying

Out of all the flower pictures, 5 is my favorite
Why? »» The focus point. The colors and lighting are perfect imo
It's jsut beautiful!!

In some of the other solo flower pictures, I can't find where the focus was and it kinda hurts my old eyes..

And you really have talent for squirrel pictures!
I think those are some of your best ones!
They move so much it's hard to shoot them right, and I love the expression on them also
#7 is sooooooooooooooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!!!

Haha you are so funny, you make me smile

Thanks I thought #5 was the better out of them all too. I was trying out different stuff to see what I get.

That cute little squirrel was sitting there for a long time! I had enough time to get my camera and everything. When I got closer, however, he moved. He didn't look like he wanted to go anywhere either - haha! Thanks for replying, Marie!

Thanks to you for the great pictures.
Really amazing and i envy you to have had so much time before it ran off!!


Our squirrels are in constant competition movement to be faster than the others.
Will try to add some of our squirrels, but its sooo tricky to get them!!!

Wish i had my camera the other day when all of them were there,
but i was too fascinated and it all was over all of a sudden then when they began to fight.

Haha will try my best for the next chance, but it was super busy yesterday...
Asked my sister to report to me when any of them shows up again,
but yet none of them dared to come after the big battle.

Lets see what happens today

Hopefully you can get some shots, I want to see squirrels in another part of the world

Normally I don't have such luck while grabbing my camera hoping they didn't move. But I guess this time I did. This little guy really didn't want to move for some reason, he looked all snuggly and warm there. It was a really windy day maybe that's why . The other time I had time to run and get my camera was here:



That's the closest I got before he got out of the position he was in. I cropped it so you can see