Beauty in the Dimness – Night Flowers

A Lunchtime Walk in the Rain – Forest Park & St. Louis Community College

Coneflower and Yellow Field of Flowers – Forest Park – St. Louis, Missouri

Pod and Vine – Milkweed in Black and White

Waiting to Fly – Seeds Like Gossamer – Seed Pods at Dusk

Grasses, Spider Web, Sunset – Forest Park Wetlands – St. Louis, Missouri

The Drying Coneflowers – Echinacea with Backlighting

Wildflowers by the Pond – Near Brighton, Illinois – Quintessential Dassler Effect

As I was processing these, I was thinking how this set of photos represents one of the central themes or motifs of photos on this blog. They are shots of nature with a shallow depth of field with the focus isolating a detail in the foreground, with lovely bokeh in the background, which nonetheless should help with the composition of the photo with blurred shapes and colors. I began to think of this because this sort of photo is one that makes me very happy. These are a little extra dreamy because I had my ISO much lower than I normally shoot at and it was a windy day. I hope you may enjoy them, too. Oh, and keep an eye out for the serendipitous visit from the bee!

Seed Pods at Dusk – Forest Park, St. Louis

The Dying of the Daffodils – The Rising of the Tulips – Forest Park – St. Louis

Friends have sometimes complained that I do not take enough pictures of living things. It is true that I try to find beauty in things that are broken or breaking apart, and perhaps even some of my Spring pictures may appear more Fall-ish in appearance (as may be the case with the ones below). However, I hope you have seen enough lovely living flower pictures on this blog recently to help me descry the charge, at least a little bit 🙂 The flowers in this post were all in beds right next to one another. And, I really do love tulips, which are just beginning to come up in full force here in St. Louis. So, buckle your seat belts, dear readers!