Astrid Ewing Photography

Textured hydrangea

Candy pink hydrangea

Monkey Puzzle Tree

Cranesbill Macro

Beautiful summer rose

"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day." ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Pink cosmos macro

"White is pure and simple and matches with everything." Christian Dior

"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart." Henry Fielding

I'm not usually very successful at photographing birds, but i took this from my parents window. They have a feeder just outside which is very popular and gave me an ideal vantage point!

"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost

I love the coral tones of this bloom.

Sometimes known as the Indian Bean tree, it has beautiful flowers that resemble foxgloves and large heart shaped leaves.

I love to photograph hydrangeas and this variety gives the illusion of floating petals.

African Daisy '3D' with droplet.

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip." James M. Barrie Golden Helenium

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain." - John Keats Lace-cap hydrangea, sometimes also known as butterfly hydrangea.

The variety of colour in gazanias fascinates me, in this one it looks as though a dark ink has bled up the petals.

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." Helen Keller

African Daisy '3D', not fully opened yet and the pretty blue tips of the petals looking like sapphires.

"The narrow bud opens her beauties to The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins; Blossoms hang round the brows of morning, and Flourish down the bright cheek of modest eve..." ~William Blake (1757-1827), "To Autumn" Helenium with a touch of texture

A little bit of an ungraceful landing from this bee.

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." Henry David Thoreau Pink cosmos macro

"And 'tis my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes." William Wordsworth Pink Waterlily Dahlia Macro

"One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve." - Henry David Thoreau

"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." Charles Dickens Mirrored Cosmos

Ladybird macro

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Two starlings on the look-out.

Macro of bee on cornflower.

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain Mirrored Cosmos Black and White I just couldn't decide between B&W or colour so I uploaded both!

The variety of colour in gazanias fascinates me, in this one it looks as though a dark ink has bled up the petals.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/rose.html

In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.... ~William Wordsworth, 1798 Purple hebe macro

"Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned." William Butler Yeats

Loved this conversion, thought it suited the flower really well.