Flowery Friday 6 starring the red peony plus

Yes there is a plus. An accidental and on purpose plus. And news. Some of you may have missed a wet white peony finally opened up yesterday.

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A bee checking out the peony! We haven't seen as many bees around as we'd like, and hope they're ok. Now, you might think, SIX photos of the same flower with the same bee. Isn't that a bit overkill? You might think that, but you'd be very wrong. Extremely very wrong. Catching a bee in flight, in focus, even seeing a bit of wing detail is extremely hard. Try it yourself. So if I get a good photo of a bee in flight, it's going on the blog. Even if there are 6 of them.

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Similar timing and angle, trying to catch the sun making the petals glow. Stupid clouds.

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From a little earlier, before it unfolded.

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The on purpose plus. One of the secrets to making some photos look better is to convert them to black and white. The blue-y distant mountain shots are a no brainer for that, at least now for me. Other shots where colour isn't important, or there isn't much colour, often look better in black and white.

And yet, here's the red peony in black and white even though it's a deep glorious red that is hard to photograph well. I'm still working on it. The water drops seem to show up better, and there are some faint magenta tones in the colour version I don't care for. See for yourself. These are identically processed, except for the conversion. I used Lightroom's conversion, not a fancy pants specialty software

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Of the Day
Michelle

Curtis
In his new supervisory role. Yes, I've taken another work contract. I was made an offer I couldn't resist. Short. Part time.

Flowers
Just so you don't forget, there is a white peony, and you'll be seeing more from it.

Driftwood

Ribbon Creek

Me