Wisteria Dilemma

For some reason I battle to capture a decent image of Wisteria.  I deleted most images

from  last year and don't think I have used one pic to date.   This year, no real

satisfaction, so far, no "aha" moment yet ....

I'm not sure if it's the detail (too much) of the hanging flower, or the fact that they come

out in Spring at that time when the wind is still around, making it difficult to capture

perfectly.     Anyway, I managed this shot yesterday and have "played" around with

exposure to make it less dark, and hopefully show up more detail in the process ....  

I love the simplicity of it, but am still not 100% convinced that this is it, so have picked

a branch, which I can now manipulate and am going to try a few other captures,

let's see what that brings!?

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Agapanthus Seedhead

For those of us who know the agapanthus flower, we normally associate it with a

vibrant tall spike of purpley blue flowers, or occassionally white also.  

But today I grace you with the remains of the agapanthus flower head... the last

few seed pods and seeds (black bits) of the season.  

I'm a bit of a sucker for abstract forms in nature, I find the shape, texture

 and colour of seedheads/ seed pods, truly fascinating....  

I also attempted to play around with exposure on this image - above is a

slightly underexposed version, whilst below is the slightly over exposed

version - which to you prefer?

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