When I went walking in Caroline Park recently, among other wildflowers, I found several types of cactus. This one showed lots of new growth (maybe because of our rainy March and April), with quite a few buds. It was just starting to bloom, and nestled down in all that new growth was this little flower. I kind of liked this view, but also took some shooting down into the flower, which was a bright yellow-green. 5/24/20 My website: www.sparhawkphotography.com
Going back to the serendipitous bubbles-in-the-dirty-dishes day, one view of the bubbles showed lines of shadows coming down from the bubbles, and then were refracted in the surface of the bubbles. Maybe that doesn't really describe it, but it made for an interesting pattern. For this image, I played with the colors to make them brighter a a bit more dramatic. 5/23/20 My website: www.sparhawkphotography.com
One of the gardens I sometime pass on my walks, has a lot of these succulent plants. I really like their shaped and rosette look. Of course they don't look quite like this--when I was editing one of my shots I really didn't like the way the colors turned out, so I decided to play with a Topaz filter to see what I got. This wasn't exactly what I had planned, but I decided I liked the "very unreal" look of it. 5/22/20 My website: www.sparhawkphotography.com
