Many many people take flower pictures. Many who take a lot more care than I do. I bought my camera a year and a half ago and I've beat the daylights out of it. As my brother says, this camera does 100 things and I know how to do 2 of them.
I even read the manual; the camera contains many settings and options corresponding to some photographic standards, f stops and shutter speeds. Not sure how that corresponds to consumer digital cameras. Read it, didn't quite understand it, promptly forgot it. Went back to what I liked to do which is to capture images of things around me (now and in the past). Quality be damned. Just photograph it and decide later if it means anything.
So back to point and shoot. Occasionally something comes out beautifully, more often, it's rather a lousy out of focus image.
So, look at the lovely rose picture I took today. A gorgeous picture IMO and it's straight out of the camera. But where do you think it came from? Maybe a beautifully landscaped garden next to a babbling brook? A quiet woodland glade? Maybe a well-tended municipal rose garden? Maybe from my front yard (unLIKELY!)
Second shot taken at today's Lake Forest Park Farmer's Market. That event has otten lots bigger. I love going down there. See those red rose bushes in the foreground. The bush with the yellow and pink rose (didn't they used to call this variety Peace?) was just behind those red roses. In the middle of the hubub, waiting to be sold. I just snapped the picture as I went past, after purchasing by strawberries, yellow squash and raspberry jam.
The image isolated from the context. Still pretty though.
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