Yesterday I said I wouldn’t start with a flower…so here’s a flower from my garden, because it’s not day 1 and I really love this plant, and I was playing with my Lensbaby Velvet 28, which provides such a pretty ethereal look to flower images. It can be a frustrating lens to work with. It doesn’t talk to the camera, completely manual, and a very narrow focal field when stopped down, you have to look hard to find the focus point. Kind of soft, sort of blurry, not tack sharp like so many photos….different. Different is good.
And since I was playing in Photoshop, here’s another version with a vintage postcard texture applied, just for fun.
