Tag Archives: roses

White roses, blue skies, pretty photos

Saturday, 18 January, 2014 • Paul • Leave a reply

I don't really enjoy talking landscape photos - I really like taking photos of people and of flowers. Not groups of people, or fields of flowers - rather more interesting and intimate shots; like the one above, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.

In a lot of ways I find taking photos of flowers is similar to taking photos of people, woman in particular I guess.

Open gardens: Pink sunshine

Wednesday, 13 November, 2013 • Paul • 2 Comments

While they're ok, I'm not a huge fan of the traditional rosebush. Climbing roses however - they're pretty awesome.

See this post for more about this photo and Rustenberg Wine's open gardens.

Peachy rose

Friday, 10 August, 2012 • Paul • Leave a reply

This rose reminded me of the first flowers I gave Kerry-Anne - peach-coloured roses on her 19th birthday.

I took this photo at about 17h30, while the light was falling and the air was cooling. It was already icy-cold and that got me wondering exactly how delicate flowers like this manage to survive the cold nights that we've had recently.

Rose

Friday, 10 February, 2012 • Paul • 4 Comments

Over the years we've had several rose bushes in our garden but for some reason it seems like we're never able to keep them well-tended - they end up looking very "natural" (ie. scraggly and woody). Perhaps some day we'll up our game and treat them like the beauties they are. :)