A Wild Garden at Sunset

 These are a few images from a garden photoshoot that I did earlier this year.

  The garden is massive and was landscaped to encompass a predominantly
indigenous (African) look and feel .... 

I adore these glimpses taken during late afternoon - they are truly african ...
the sky, the golden colour, the grasses, aloes, and more ....

A My World Tuesday post

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Blue Daisies

a couple of weeks ago I posted some pics taken of the vibrant African Daisies

which abound just before spring .....

I "played" around with colour settings and came up with these as a

different version.... perfect for a {blue} Monday .....

 

Have a great day and an awesome week everyone

a Macro Monday post here and here

and a Blue Monday post

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Aloe (Flower)

These gorgeous Aloe flowers are at the end of their flowering season - this

 was a lucky find, one because you don't often see the yellow variety

(well I don't anyway) and these flower spikes show the more

advanced flowering phase, something we generally miss,
as at this stage the spring blooms, tend to be more interesting. 

As a bonus, I  managed to capture an ant (above), and a bee (image below) !!!

the bee was intentional, the ant? well just luck I guess

Macro Monday here and here
a Mellow Yellow post
a Colour Carnival post

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African Daisies

I recently spotted a garden bed full of the vibrant African daisies, and
camera in hand hopped out the car to capture what I could.
Don't you just love their vibrant sunny "faces" in an array of yellow
 to deep orange shades???  
I decided best I post some now, as spring is in the air, and it's time to
post blossoms, poppies and other spring type blooms ....

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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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"Field of Flowers'

Whilst visiting the annual herb festival on the gorgeous Doonholm property,

I found a few interesting angles from which to try

something 'different'.   Here is one example, where crouched behind

 the bed of blue indigenous Felicia (forefront), I managed to capture the

trees and flowers just ahead ...... making it appear like a field of flowers,

with a lot more distance and depth than there was in reality ....

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An indigenous beauty

a gorgeous Strelitzia  - indigenous to South Africa and commonly

known as Bird of Paradise.

this was taken whilst on my walkout at the Voortrekker Monument

(Pilgrims monument) recently ... see post below for more

images and details.

To view more macro posts click here and here

and more Flowers, click here

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An Indigenous Lily : Macro Monday

the dietes grandiflora - the large wild iris also known as the "fairy iris" is a somewhat non discript indigenous (south african) lily, until it flowers en masse!  this is but one bloom - I love the colours and amazing detail, which looks like it's been painted on. 

I made a comment yesterday to a fellow blogger, that what I love about macro photography is the fact that you really get to see and notice all the finer details which you normally would not even notice -  and this is a perfect example.

want to know more about the dietes, click here

for more Macro Monday posts and pics, click here

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South Africa in Pictures : Flowering Aloe

This is but one of the very many types of South African Aloes - most of which flower in the cooler months. Aloes belong to the "Succulent" family or genus, and tend to grow in the more arid, rocky areas of South Africa.

Link to more info on Aloes

Picture taken in Cullinan June 2009.