Friday, January 05, 2007

Next Generation

It's been so incredibly warm that I am sitting here in my office at almost 9PM on a January evening with my windows open wide. We went out to supper and had on very light jackets and even they were a bit much. Tomorrow promises to be in the 70's. WOW!

Now that the Holidays have passed and things are settling back into the normal routine, the house has become quite quiet again and somewhat depressing...I miss Robert being home. He left On Tuesday afternoon and we won't see him again probably until summertime...sigh. Thank God for cell phones and internet, although next week he goes away for a month of additional training and he will be likely be out of touch with us for the entire exercise.

Blogger has been having issues with archives so I do apologize to anyone who has tried to look at them. I do link each post to the one prior so if you want to look at previous posts just click on the current photo and it will link to the previous one unless otherwise noted on the posts.

This is a macro of purple coneflower seeds (echinacea) from my backyard. I thought the seeds looked interesting in this state. Although dried out and dead they hold the promise of the next generation of flowers in my garden.

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27 Comments:

Anonymous Ben said...

Looks like you're having fun with that new macro... :)

I find the lack of snow this winter sort of depressing. Although it's kind of cool to be able to go outside in jeans & a t-shirt in the middle of december, It's been far too long since I've had a snow day! :-P

9:11 PM  
Blogger photowannabe said...

Your weather has even "sunny California" beat. Tis strange. Great macro. I saw some echinacea in full bloom the other day. i may post it pretty soon.
Keep smiling.

9:27 PM  
Anonymous emré said...

It's interesting to see how a flower keeps its promise :-) It's 64F at midnight, that's interesting as well.

12:19 AM  
Anonymous P.J. said...

Excellent image. And I know what you mean about the weather... upstate New York and I left work at 12:15 a.m.

59 degrees.

In January.

Wow. :)

2:02 AM  
Blogger Tscharke Photography said...

Good Framing here Laurie! I like the brown backdrop. Keep up the good work!

2:27 AM  
Anonymous shiv said...

interesting macro laurie,love the DOF,
anyhow,thanks a lot for all the help with RAW,i think i finally have things sorted out...!

3:36 AM  
Anonymous david kleinert said...

excellent detail and earthy colour tones!

6:00 AM  
Anonymous dawn said...

The tones are beautiful and rich.

I wish it would warm up just a little here. While we haven't gotten the amount of snow as Denver, we have been getting regular snows and it is definitely winter and cold.

8:46 AM  
Blogger PhotoSam said...

i like this dried out version a lot, u get to see many shots of these flowers in bloom...lovely brown tones as well...

11:22 AM  
Blogger Badala said...

Great macro. Lovely.

11:52 AM  
Anonymous Doug said...

Great macro shot. The lighter colored tips give a halo effect around the flower.

12:13 PM  
Anonymous riesenriel said...

Excellent macro. Really. Nice DOF and tones.

5:57 PM  
Blogger Monterey John said...

I heard about the freaky weather you have been getting. Would you mind sending some our way? From Kansas and West, it's been cold.

Nice image.

9:40 PM  
Blogger Steve said...

Excellent! I love purple cone flowers; we grow them along the side of our house during the summer

10:14 PM  
Anonymous Alice said...

Nice composition and focus, Laurie.

11:16 PM  
Anonymous Shailja said...

Nice brown - almost looks like it has water droplets all around...

And I know what you mean by warm winter - here in Boston we had a crazy warm day today!

11:26 PM  
Blogger Dave MacIntyre said...

Crazy warm here in Toronto Laurie. 13 Degrees! Sweatshirt weather, although the rain has been fairly constant. No complaints here though.

Love the details in this one.

1:24 AM  
Anonymous Intern said...

I love this ... lovely warm tones.... and it's exceptionally warm for jan.

10:48 AM  
Anonymous photogenic said...

pretty macro. so I guess the whole world is having this warm winter sendrome. Its January and its only snowed once this year in Istanbul
:(

3:04 PM  
Anonymous Steve W said...

That's beautiful, it looks like a burst of fireworks. It looks like you are making the most of your new macro.

8:38 PM  
Anonymous Stu said...

wow! awesome macro! love this one. wish we had these temperatures here. getting cold now in Japan!

9:07 PM  
Anonymous Ben said...

Great macro.
And the weather has been quite weird! I really miss the snow.

11:25 PM  
Anonymous Suby said...

Awesome, awesome Macro Laurie, well done

Suby

3:32 AM  
Anonymous torekimi said...

Wooo! Lovely shot. The brown background is inspired.
Doesn't this stuff stop you from taking colds or something?

5:41 AM  
Anonymous Robin said...

I LOVE macros! Good job! I love that you can take a macro lens and find interesting photos everywhere.
Very cool.

11:24 AM  
Anonymous Taswir said...

Great macro and DOF, great work

12:31 PM  
Blogger micki said...

This is your best shot with the new macro lens, Laurie. Love the colors and each little highlight.

3:44 PM  

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