Last weekend, cold weather was forecast. Freezing weather usually this signals the end of the cosmos plants. This incited me to make some images of these fabulous plants. Fortunately, the temperatures did not plunge below freezing, so I managed to shoot these images over the course of 3 days.
It is always challenging making images of cosmos flowers, especially macro images. Flowers are grow from buds at the end of a long thin stem. The slightest breeze causes the flowers to move. During the course of making this images, there was a slight overcast and very little air disturbances — perfect conditions for making images.
Most of our plants are either white, red or pink. However, there are plenty of variations that have red and white coloring, as in the following image.
Red Cosmos
In this image, I captured a red cosmos flower before it was fully open.
Red Cosmos, No 2
Cosmos flowers are always difficult to capture because the leaves are so fine. This means that one has to find a decent background that is not busy.
White Cosmos
Looking through the variety of plants, I found this following flower having white petals, fringed with pink edges.
Pink And White Cosmos
Yesterday I made an image of a pink cosmos, but failed to notice an out of focus leave obscuring most of the flower. Today the stamens had withered, so I had to find another pink flower that had opened earlier in the day.
Pink Cosmos
Nice photos. My fav was the next to last one.