Playing with my new Camera, again.

I am waiting to do a class on DSLR camera photography, but as it hasn’t yet been scheduled I have been playing around with the camera, changing settings and trying to learn what they do.

I don’t have a ‘lovely’ garden but have been taking photos of the spring flowers and bushes that are starting to flower.

This lovely bush with the pink fluffy flowers hangs over the fence from the neighbours yard.

A white version of the fluffy bush about to flower, if anyone knows the name of this I would love to hear from you.

I love this tiny flower, need to work out my macro settings to better focus on the centre flower.

Yesterday Today Tomorrow, such a pretty bush. This second photo would make a nice wallpaper for my computer.

My Wisteria is starting to flower, this photo was taken yesterday.

Same thing taken today, should look wonderful in a few more days.

This wisteria plant has grown from a cutting that I took from the house where my grandfather was born, down near Armidale, NSW. Because I am not a gardener by any stretch of the imagination, I am so happy each year when this bush flowers. The family legend is that my g.g.g. grandmother (not sure how many greats but I think 3 or 4) bought a cutting of this plant with her when she emigrated from Cornwall in 1853.

The old house where pop was born is now a tumbling down cottage, held up only by the wisteria on one side and a yellow climbing rose on the other. I tried to grow some of the rose cuttings but they didn’t make it, so I am happy the wisteria did flourish.

Finally, my bottlebrush, I love the bright red of these brushes, the local birds love the tree too, unfortunately they always hear me coming with my camera and take off, before I can get a picture of them.