This is one of the photography projects I've had in the pipeline for a while. I had gone as far as shortlisting the shots a couple of times, but wasn't really able to feel any further than that. The two rose bushes, Red and White, kept calling me back with the camera but the output never quite made for a presentable collection. Little creatures crawled or flew in and out of my rose-focussed attention and Shanti woofed her delight at the moon! At last I got the go-ahead from Fly and robo-barge got to work.
Clichéd as human behaviour may have made them out to be, I've never had anything against roses. I love how they look, the varieties on offer, their aromas. The wild pink roses are something else altogether, rooting in the funkiest of places, thorns sharp and petals soft. These two front-garden bushes I'm talking about are semi-tamed. They were pruned last year after a very long period of languid growth, which most likely accounts for their proliferation this summer. At one time I counted 37 buds and flowers on the White Rose bush - compared to half a dozen or so last year!
I've now got lots of photographs which collectively capture a few fleeting moments of Red'n'White life. The time has come to make a fresh shortlist and to flow with the process of selection, view, crop, upload, and some words if they suggest themselves. I'm going to divide the photos into three sections:
1. Red Life - 2. White Life - 3. Life in R&W.
Photos taken with a Nikon D200 + Nikon AF-S 40mm f2.8 MG lens.
All images are sized to a width of 1680 pixels, so if you'd like to zoom in, you can use the right-click (CTR-click) options to 'view image'.
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Thorns, buds, flowers, little creatures to be seen
If you're not sure, dunno what I mean
Just scroll some of the way down
This very same screen!
Red Life
A budding red rose bravely looks over the thorn
Through misty wet leaves and into each morn
Dense with nectar - bent, yet not forlorn
Trailing delicate, fragrant incense.
White Life
There's also pink - a pretty wee hue
And don't forget the sky is blue!
Right, enough simple rhyme
Barge, that will do!
Life in Red & White
Remote-controlled robo-barge obediently circulating
Little life on wings zoomed-in, gaze met
Utterly fa-sci-na-ting!
Bees
Echinacea
Flash the cat
New York City
Workers in Dubai
Bitch on the Beach
Tahiti & French Polynesia
Fly Life – macros and verse
UK to India overland by car (1973)
Eastern Europe - Poland, Russia, the Baltics (1994)
The Nile and the Pharaohs - Egypt (1996)
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon (1996)