{"id":2422,"date":"2012-05-06T23:20:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T06:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2012-05-06T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T06:21:13","slug":"lensbaby-flowers-wk-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/lensbaby-flowers-wk-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Lensbaby Flowers — wk 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the flowering plants around, it was time to use the Lensbaby again. The irises in our garden have started to open this last week. A couple of plants got blown over by the strong winds, so I snipped them and put them in a vase this morning. With the Lensbaby attached, I made one image of the stem below the flower.<\/p>\n

\"1141-0058-Lily\"<\/a>

Lily<\/p><\/div>\n

The Lensbaby is really great for making images of flowers. The lens has a sweet spot that is in focus; all other parts of the image are thrown out of focus. For the iris, I decided to use a really colorful vase — we did not have much choice for a single tall thin flower! Here is an image of part of the vase.<\/p>\n

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Colorful Vase<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I moved onto the roses bushes. Early this morning this rose started opening — by this afternoon, it had opened.<\/p>\n

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Opening Rose Bud<\/p><\/div>\n

Here are three rose buds, just about to start opening.<\/p>\n

\"1141-0094-Three-Rose-Buds\"<\/a>

Three Rose Buds<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, I returned to another rose, to get some detail of the edges of the petals.<\/p>\n

\"1141-0106-Rose-Bud-Petals\"<\/a>

Rose Bud Petals<\/p><\/div>\n

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With all the flowering plants around, it was time to use the Lensbaby again. The irises in our garden have started to open this last week. A couple of plants got blown over by the strong winds, so I snipped them and put them in a vase this morning. With the Lensbaby attached, I made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,49,51,294,87,431,476,46,433],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-project52","tag-blue","tag-color","tag-iris","tag-lensbaby","tag-pink","tag-rose","tag-soft","tag-spring","tag-vase"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t