Nasturtium Field  by jgpittenger

Nasturtium Field

I needed some brightening up yesterday after my daughter and her family left to return to the other side of the country and Jim came down HARD with the virus my daughter's husband had while they were here. So I went out to a neighbors driveway where I had seen these gaudy nasturtiums dancing in the sun.
Thanks as always for your unfailing support and encouragement and suggestions. I would love some of the latter on this shot. To my eye it doesn't quite work but Im not sure other than shooting at a better time of day for the light what I could have done different. too busy, I think. But I couldn't seem to get an angle or aperture opening that would focus the eye on just one or a few flowers and have them nicely focused with everything else bokehing out
Beautiful!
July 29th, 2013  
I think this is a lovely capture. So bright, and I like your point of focus. Hopefully your day brightened up.
July 29th, 2013  
Oh no!! I was just wondering how you'd managed to avoid the spread of lurgy! I love the atmosphere in this. I might have tried cropping off the LHS just before the big nasturtium in the foreground (while trying not to lose too much of that nice frondy bit).
July 29th, 2013  
Beautiful colors
July 29th, 2013  
Lovely shot,great focusing!!
July 29th, 2013  
The colors in this remind me of the fruity pebbles cereal my kids used to eat. Love the colors.
July 29th, 2013  
Lovely to see nasturtiums again, sort of out of fashion here but always so bright & colourful...think they would rather put them in salads now...sigh of the times!!
July 29th, 2013  
Lovely! Great color, beautiful light!
July 29th, 2013  
Beautiful colours and lighting.
July 30th, 2013  
Caz
Love the dof and the colors are wonderful. Sorry to hear your hubby is sick.
July 30th, 2013  
Gorgeous shot.
July 30th, 2013  
First of all, I hope Jim recovers quickly and you stay healthy. I agree this has gorgeous color but tends to be a bit busy. I can't think of a thing other than to get a bit closer.
July 30th, 2013  
@rvwalker I was using a WA lens and was as close as it let me. Maybe I should go back with my macro? Or a telephoto zoom?
July 30th, 2013  
@jgpittenger Yep. You might want to try a low angle looking up a bit to limit the background.
July 30th, 2013  
nice
July 30th, 2013  
Lovely lighting
July 30th, 2013  
Great colours!
July 30th, 2013  
Very vivid
July 30th, 2013  
Beautiful capture! Great dof and color!!
July 30th, 2013  
Bright and beautiful.
August 1st, 2013  
I love nasturtiums, beautiful colors here, so I do hope you take more photos of them
@happypat so true, one of my childhood memories, seems like everyone used to grow them
August 1st, 2013  
I love nasturtiums too, they say sunshine and summer. Lots of brightness here.
August 5th, 2013  
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