Also, BIG #gratitude for my apartment, which lets me see 2 kinds of #CherryBlossoms out back & #city beauty out front even if I'm not well enough to go out 🙌🏽
My ID app wasn't able to ID this flowering tree's species but suggests it's likely Prunus genus. It has beautiful burgundy leaves that really set off the colors of the flower. The ones I see are very bush-like rather than small tree.
Our other clematis vine is doing well & blooming like crazy. Didn’t even notice the caterpillar till I was looking at the photos later. Everything in the #garden does great here until about June when the blast furnace heat arrives.
The macro lens has forced me to rethink pretty much everything about photography. Which at my age is a Good Thing. I will learn patience, even if it takes me forever.
Today's lesson: what qualifies as “ideal” shooting conditions. I didn't even notice there was a breeze until I set up the camera. And no, the boxes didn't help much. It was tempting to look for a cardboard tube and stand that up around the flower. (Canon 70D, Tamron 105mm macro with a 31mm extension, ⅟400 f/7.1. And literally everything was moving.)