57- Spring gardens Photo

Photographer’s Note

Hello everybody! I have been missing from TE for a long time, too long for my liking; but I was just too busy with work!...
My last posting concerned the wild flowers taken on our walk to the first round of presidential elections, on April 21st! The weather was absolutely gorgeous then, and remained so until May 7th.
Since then, it has been grey and wet everyday; so I thought of bringing out the garden flowers I took on the same walk as the wild flowers, in order to put a bit of brightness into our grey days.
I know you can probably find the same flowers in different parts of the world, but not in all parts of the world, and not necessarily at the same time! ( I received some photos taken in a Swedish garden near Stockholm last weekend, and it was funny to see the tulips that had just come out in bloom . Our tulips have been finished for over a month.)
Anyway, here is border of aubrietias, aubriette in French, aubrietia deltoidea in Latin. The name comes from the nature painter: Claude Aubriet who lived in the 17th century and was the official painter of Louis XIV 's gardens. The plant is of mediterranean origin. Bees are very fond of them.
In WS, Different spring flowers in various gardens.

maltese, jlbrthnn, Mondaychild, gildasjan, stego, Shoot_Score, Buin, josepmarin, papagolf21, UlfE, vinicio, rossofuoco, Silke, JCG has marked this note useful

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Mondaychild (1513) 2007-05-16 11:33

Hi ML,

I missed you already ...
Nice little flowers, well colored. Perhaps you could have cropped some of the flowers in the background - they are too bright due to the sunlight. But the view from top is very good.

jlbrthnn (38927) 2007-05-16 11:39

Bonsoir Marie-Louise,
J'espère que tu vas vite compenser to absence et nous régaler de tes bonnes photos. Ces aubriettes sont très agréables et prises avec une parfaite netteté. Bravo.
Bonne soirée
Amicalement
Joël

vbbreizh (2622) 2007-05-16 14:23

Bonsoir Marie-Louise,
Ces quelques fleurs pour nous faire oublier le mauvais temps qui nous passe au-dessus de la tête ?
Belle photo, ça remonte le moral !
Amitiés, Gilles

maltese (21537) 2007-05-16 17:00

Bonsoir Marie Louise
Un retour par le monde des fleurs. Un joli tapis végétal avec une belle mise au point, des couleurs bien rendues pour nous replnger dans ce beau début de printemps.
Du beau travail, toujours agréablement complété par la note et les WS, beau travail, amicalement
Hervé

bracasha75 (22387) 2007-05-16 18:24

Helo Marie
This is beautiful to see
Very special work here
Bravo
Cheers,Braca

UnTrained (0) 2007-05-17 7:37

Salut Marie Louise,
your colours jump out of the capture. Very natural and very strong. The light impression is also good as we have darker and brighter parts. This light is here gone also, it is grey and cloudy, today with rain. But this helps for the garden that everything is growing to an ocean of green.
Lieben Gruss, Ulf

gildasjan (24133) 2007-05-17 12:21

Bonjour Marie Louise
Un beau tapis de fleurs bien nettes,plus la collection dans les diverses images du WS et la note bien garnie en renseignements.
Bonne soirée
Amicalement
Gildas

stego (22448) 2007-05-17 21:32

Salut Marie Louise,
What a wonderful pattern! Along with the WS's, you offer an impressive series of flowers!
TFS, Amicalement, José.

Shoot_Score (650) 2007-05-17 22:15

Salut ML,

this is a very interesting shot where the light is just hitting us beautifully! I love this carpet of tiny flowers;
a very happy springlike shot. Tfs, Jay.

John_F_Kennedy (31994) 2007-05-18 5:58

Beautiful colours and great composition. I like your photo very much.
Best wishes,
Achim

Buin (38258) 2007-05-20 2:49

Hallo Marie Louise!
A beautiful one! These aubrieta in Germany are called Blaukissen (blue pillow) and this year they have bloomed here in march. Your photo show it in natural colours and I like especially the play of light and shadow between the blooms and leaves. Yes, that's spring indeed!
Greetings from thundery Germany!
Frank

josepmarin (34099) 2007-05-21 14:46

Bonsoir Marie Louise,
me alegra volver a ver tu trabajo en TE.
Aquí nos presentas una bonita composición de primavera, sencilla, sólo estas bellas flores cubriendo el parterre, y con un buen juego de luz y sombras.
El conjunto es espléndido, tiene un bonito efecto visual, me gusta.
Un cordial saludo,
Josep
PS: no he hecho el Camino de Santiago, aunque conozco muchos lugares por donde éste pasa, desde Tarragona, a La Rioja, o Cantabria.

Silvio1953 (42821) 2007-05-22 14:11

Ciao Marie louise, splendida distesa di fiori con magnifici colori, grande composizione di Primavere, brava, ciao Silvio

papagolf21 (56737) 2007-05-23 16:57

Bonsoir, mon amie Marie-Louise,
De l'eau qui va, - du temps qui passe, des fleurs - qui se dispersent, - lequel voudrait m'entendre - si, je lui disais d'attendre?
La volupté, comme une fleur rare, demande les soins de la culture la plus ingénieuse.
Combien faudrait-il de poèmes pour rendre gloire aux fleurs qui nous entourent !
Un grand merci pour ces merveilleuses prises de vue.
Amitiés.
Philippe

bazal (7898) 2007-05-26 4:24

Bonjour, Marie Louise.
J'aime bien ton image, et malgré le fait que le sujet soit une plante des jardins, je pense que ta note la rend parfaitement appropriée à TE. Au niveau composition, j'aurai peut-être cadré un peu plus serré pour éviter la portion vide, en haut à gouche, mais c'est une détail. Les couleurs et les textures sont très argéables. Merci du partage!

UlfE (9168) 2007-05-26 8:07

Hi Marie Loiuse,

A very nice photo. A group flower like this could actually be quite difficult to capture. There are always some of the you have to crop, some of the might easily become blurred and with a dark background they also risk too be too bright. Here you have done a really good job. Great colours, very good sharpness and a very good POV. Have a nice week-end!

Cheers,

Ulf

vinicio (22428) 2007-06-06 6:57

Beautiful carpet on nices flowers and wonderful collection of images into the WS, a true parade of beauties, well done Marie Louise, I find this post very good and interesting, compliments.
Ciao
Vinicio

rossofuoco (6384) 2007-06-07 2:25

Ciao Marie.
Foto bella a fuoco e con bei colori.
Ottima nota.
Ciao Renzo

Silke (3023) 2007-06-16 8:18

Superb spring capture!
I love the abundance of colour in this
TFS
silke

JCG (25749) 2007-06-16 13:13

Bonsoir Marie-Louise,

Un bien bel ensemble floral que tu nous offres ici, outre cette publication colorée joliment mise en lumière, les photos bonus sont toutes aussi lumineuses et agréables à regarder. Merci pour cet instant fraîcheur bien commenté, bravo Marie-Louise.

Avec toutes mes amitiés et un très bon WE,

Jean-Charles