I am a reluctant gardener. Even that is terribly overstating the time I spend in my garden. This week, for no particular reason, I took my camera to the garden and began snapping pictures and shooting some video. There's a lot going on out there at a level that is just out of sight for the casual observer.
It's just like me to stumble upon something this marvelous when it is almost over. The few flowers left in the garden are getting thin and it won't be long before the New England winter turns everything brown and dormant. But I'll be ready next year with my camera and a plan to plant as many bee and butterfly friendly plants as I can squeeze in.
This photo was taken using a Nikon 105 mm macro lens. The photo was manipulated in photoshop with the oil paint filter. I like that filter, even though "real" photographers will scoff at me for using it. But since I'm clearly not a real photographer I get to have fun with the filter and create an image that not only looks like what I was seeing, but feels like I was feeling.
Monte