Daisy Time Again

Aside from that recently posted walk to the woods, I haven't usually been taking my camera on our strolls. I do have a phone after all, and Sue has hers, and she gives it quite a workout. However, I stuck my macro lens on again when we went out on Wednesday.

The pink echinacea coneflowers are in bloom in our garden and looking very pretty, so I took a few photos before we walked around to the park. There, I found yellow rudbeckia coneflowers, and I squeezed off a few more photos. Neither my pink or yellow coneflower shots really did it for me, so I am not going to post them.

But as I have discovered recently, there is something about daisies. There are two rather nice clumps in the park, so I took some photos, and I quite liked how they turned out. For those in the photographic know, I settled on an aperture of f5.6 and found that it seems to be a good compromise for handheld macro photos. I don't mind the subtle texture behind the flowers in this first photo. In fact, I rather like it.

There are two insects or partial insects in this photo. I notices neither, but one is tiny

and the other is half out of the frame.

The water droplets appealed to me in this next photo, but I also like the three flowers in the composition, three components often being a good compositional number.

Wonder of wonder, I did see the insect in this ↓ photo and captured it quite deliberately. Hurray me!

This ↓ is the same photo as that ↑ but just cropped differently into a square format. Do you have a preference?

After the walk, we watched more of the Wimbledon tennis coverage. In the hot weather, this a good time for AC to be in the AC. Speaking of heat, you know how Alexa gives us weather warnings. Usually, it's something like a heat warning until 10pm. Yesterday, on the 10th of the month, the warning was until July 17. Today it will be a humid 31C/86F. Let me emphasize humid — that's the killer, that is.