Sun flower
A picture taken from underneath the flower, with the sun directly above the flower head. I love this! 
We’ve had a really sunny weekend. On Saturday, we went to Kathryn and Allan’s house for a barbecue. I took this picture of a flower growing in one of their front borders. Every once in a while, a photo comes along that I just love, and this is one of them. I love the deep blue sky, the sparkling bokeh of the leaves in the background and on the stem, and especially the way the flower’s petals seem to glow.
As soon as I saw the flower and the sky, I knew the photo that I wanted to take. It took a long time (this shot was number 13 out of 16). Crawling on my knees to get underneath the flower, I held the stem in my left hand and pushed the flower head across to block the sun and get a composition without the side of the house in it, while holding my camera in my right hand. Because it was so bright, I could get away with a shutter speed of 1/1250, so there was no chance of any camera shake! I think this is my favourite photo of the summer so far. (Apart from the vintage looking one of Charlotte, perhaps, that Flickr friends will be able to see.)
[ISO 100, f/4, 1/1250, 25mm]
