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Hello everyone and welcome to my Always a Flower post for today.
It's been cloudy and raining most of the day today and my ankle is telling me it's going to continue to rain at least until tomorrow.
Today I'm presenting the Dahlia images I took earlier in the week.
The largest beds in the garden at Sequoia Park are full of Dahlias, well over a hundred different individual plants with dozens of different varieties and colors.
Most of the images here were "long lensed" with my Sigma 150-600 mm at long range.
I'm really liking this method over using the 18-55 mm at close rage. I get much better isolation as the background and foreground have a pleasant blur or bokeh in them.
The Dahlias are just now beginning to open up on a few of the many bushes here in the garden this year.
Can't wait to image the beds in full bloom.
These images are a small sampling of blooms on the few plants that have opened up already.
I got lucky today and I'm the only one here at the moment and I have the garden all to myself.
There are many different varieties and colors of these classic flowers and more hybrids coming out every year.
Lots of variations in pedal structure and density in the different varieties as well. Some only have a dozen or so broad pedals like the one above, wile others have hundreds of narrow tubular/cone like pedals as the image below.
Although only a few of the blooms are open at this time there are flower buds swelling all over each plant. There will be hundred of blooms open over the next couple of weeks and it should be a spectacular riot of color =)
This one really pops in the sun, I took this image wile a cloud was defusing the sunshine to get some detail. The full sun shots came out a neon hot pink and yellow ball with little detail.
I imaged this yellow one a little different than the others. I was in bird mode with a high shutter speed, low ISO, and the aperture is wide open.
I gave them a darker broodier background with a shallower focus depth.
Lots of flower buds getting ready to pop.
This red one here was one of my favorites and really want to see this in full bloom, this is the only one open right now.
I really liked this shot and is my pick of the litter out of todays images.
Took this at 600mm setting at minimum focus distance. ( approx.. 12 feet)
A lone Giant Poppy rises up and blooms among a sea of Dahlias.
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