Hellebore at home

Whilst I much prefer to photograph flowers in their natural environment, the rain and wind today made this a difficult task - not helped by the fact that all the open blooms were drooping their heads because of the conditions. I was amazed that I was able to get some reasonably sharp shots at just 1/10th of a second, hut a close-up was out of the question. This shot shows blooms in various stages of development - see my main 365 album for 26 January for a clearer view of this lovely delicate flower.

[Tom]

very nice capture great greens, light, focus and details of the flowers.
Hints of the rain in the droplets.

[Shanne]

you can really see how bad the conditions were here

[Alice Burghart]

Nice but I really like the inside one even better. You are lucky to still have any flowers this time of year.

[Joan Robillard]

Just to have flowers in January would be pure joy. Eating the curried pumpkin and bean soup I made to warm myself tonight. So your flowers will warm my mind.