This is, of course, both a good and a bad thing. You see I like flower photography as much as the next guy, but I also get bored with it pretty quickly. As such, I have a simple rule that I try to follow every year. I give myself a day or two to walk around and take as many blossoms and flower shots as my heart desires. Where appropriate I try to keep them in an urban context (flowers and city juxtaposed, oh my!) and then I get it out of my system and move on.
Here are a few shots from a recent walk around my neighborhood:
Nikon D7000 w/ Nikkor 35mm f1.8 lens, 1/2500sec at f2, ISO100. I was standing in the median for this shot, in between where Clark and Ashland converge, in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood.
Nikon D7000 w/ Nikkor 35mm f1.8 lens, 1/5000sec at f1.8, ISO100. Another shot from inside the median. A bit of a random focal point, but I wanted the streetlight in the background to stay partially visible. If I had focused on the closest flower it would have been completely bokehfied.
Nikon D7000 w/ Nikkor 35mm f1.8 lens, 1/1000sec at f2.8, ISO100. This is outside Gethsemane Garden Center on Clark St.
All photos © Andy Marfia 2011, All Rights Reserved.
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