Some of you know that I do some gardening; I'm reasonably good at it, but like all things, there's failures. I enjoy it though and, because in nature things go wrong sometimes, I accept the fact that not every plant I put into soil will thrive and sometimes crops fail or are not as magnificent as I at first imagined they would be.
I've been lucky though, most of what I've planted has done very well and I've had the chance to enjoy the process of planting, nurturing and eating them in the case of my fruits and vegetables, and to simply enjoy the non-edible plants for what they are.
Last weekend I was in the garden taking a look around and decided to take some photos. It's been a while since I've done a gardening post and I plan to do one at some stage, but for something different I thought I'd take my macro lens out and see what I could capture.
I decided to work with only one plant, my lemon tree. It has some flower buds and open flowers, the lemons are starting to turn from green to yellow and the green leaves are always interesting so I figured I'd shoot images of the one tree and see if I could get enough good shots for a post.
I took ninety nine photos altogether but singled out only nine for this post. There are others I could have used but I think nine is enough. There were a few duds also, under-exposed, blurry and so on, but overall, most were reasonable.
I brought out my trusty water spray bottle to get things a little wet; I like the look the water droplets give as they add interest so don't be fooled, the water didn't fall from the sky in a glorious pre-photo-shoot autumn rain...I sprayed it on myself.
I don't want to put a lot of text into this post so I'll not go on and on about it; the photos speak for themselves really and I know most people don't read text anyway, especially here in this community.
Feel free to scroll around and see what you think and if you have a favourite one let me know in the comments below, I'm always happy to chat with people as it's a great way to build relationships.
As well as my lemon three, I have a grapefruit and a few orange trees that are going really well and maybe I'll photograph them sometime, but for now thanks for taking a look at the photos of my lemon tree. It's going really great, which I'm happy with, and I look forward to drinking tea with my own lemon in it soon.
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default; tomorrow isn't promised so be humble and kind - galenkp
[All original and proudly AI free.]
Every image in this post is my own.
Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III was used to capture these images.