First wildflowers of the season....

[Kobione]

Spotted on a walk round the block on Saturday. A nice Native Hop Bush in flower, (Dodonea):

 

 

 

 

 

And the first Correa, these have leaves and stems like sandpaper - they must be sweet to eat and thatrs one way of protecting themselves:

 

 

 

We should have more soon.

[Korky]

I love the second image, very nice indeed. The colour and the out of focus background work brilliantly.

 

Lancashire feels VERY Autumnal this morning, so rub it in why don't ya?

 

Korky 

[annie]

both as gorgeous as each other for me kobione....

[NannyFerret]

Both are lovely Kobione.
I like the waxy looking flowers.

[Terry]

Both stunning shots but #1 for me. That background colour is brilliant

[ChrisLumix]

I think I prefer #2 because of the nice blurry background. The subject of #1 is lovely too, but where was it - in front of a green wall or something?

[Guest]

both nice but Prefer the first one

[bugmeister]

I'm not picking either, they are both lovely flowers and good pictures as well, and although the backgrounds are different, they fit with the flowers

[Kobione]

Thanks all, I was 'playing' when I took these. It was quite breezy, so I was pleased with what I got. They were taken on just the normal macro setting on the FZ, but from about 3 metres back, and using the zoom, deliberately trying to blur the background. The green in the first was our mown bit of 'lawn' way down the hill, behind the bush. It surprised me that the colour ended up merging so evenly and looking like a painted wall!!

[ChrisLumix]

Thanks all, I was 'playing' when I took these. It was quite breezy, so I was pleased with what I got. They were taken on just the normal macro setting on the FZ, but from about 3 metres back, and using the zoom, deliberately trying to blur the background. The green in the first was our mown bit of 'lawn' way down the hill, behind the bush. It surprised me that the colour ended up merging so evenly and looking like a painted wall!!

 

I'm surprised - I have the FZ38 and really struggle to get backgrounds out of focus! However, if you're using macro zoom and the background is a way away as in your first shot, then it is still possible. I have to admit that macro zoom is a setting I constantly forget about; I usually stick the zoom on full WA and thrust it almost on top of the target.

[Kobione]

ChrisLumix, I'm still learning with the FZ150. For a while I wasn't happy with macro shots, because I was trying to hold the camera too close, as close as I did with the TZ. I love shots on here with the blurry backgrounds and so just thought I'd give it a go, and these were the result

[JohnP]

These are cracking shots, there's not much I can say that hasn't already been said.