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I’m still making the most of the poppies that grew in my garden and I decided to try out my new hose pipe (bought for ยฃ4 from Tesco yesterday). I took the Elincrom D-Lite flash outdoors and positioned it to…
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A bearded bloke is going to cross my path… I started taking photos with the poppy head attached to the stalk with the sky behind…using flash and underexposing the cloudy sky, then I moved over to the glass patio table.…
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On what will probably be my next to last poppy shot I decided to position the camera so that a poppy head was filtered by a foreground poppy petal. The long lens (500mm Tamron) has thrown the front petal totally…
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I had a couple of red poppies appear in the garden today, and later in the day noticed Josh (ePHOTozine’s technical editor) had uploaded a camera review with pictures taken in a poppy field.ย I hadn’t realised we had any…
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Raindrops on the poppy petals today. I’ll soon have exhausted the poppy patch by which time the petals will have all fallen off. Next I’m looking forward to a shot of the skeleton poppy head. That’s a few weeks away.
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Continuing my theme of poppy photos while I have them in the garden, this is of the bulb before it explodes into a large and colourful poppy. I included the other stalks in to balance the right side. It’s part…
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A poppy head shot with the iphone hipstamatic
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I’m making the most of the poppy explosion in the garden, and the rain with this shot. A poppy petal fell off, so I placed it on the garden table and framed up tightly using the 100mm macro on a…
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A close up abstract of a poppy petal…such large and delicate things – they don’t stand a chance in the wind and rain.
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We had a pond. At one end was a water feature on an incline with a few pond type flowers around the cascade and a stray poppy. The filter pump went so we decided to fill it in. Bricks from…

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