The beguinage in Bruges is a stunning sight if you visit it in the Spring season.
There are sixteenth century houses and cobblestone streets, and the lawn in the middle is covered with yellow Daffodils. As if time has stood still ...
You can see some pictures of it in yesterdays Weekly Winners post. Click here to see it.
I knew I just HAD to get some macro shots and close ups of the Daffodils.So I got down on my knees and started playing with my camera a little.
I focussed on the flower, and I used a shallow depth of field to make the houses in the background a little blurry.
My Macro Monday for this week...
Find more Macro Monday pictures here.
23 comments:
Gorgeous daffodils. I love the way you've composed that shot with the white house in the background. It gives the photo a lovely sense of place.
Your Bruges photos from yesterday were wonderful too - those bridge ones especially were my favorites! Some day I really must get to Bruges...
Your effort was worth it...great perspectives in these shots!
These are all just gorgeous! I love that last shot. Welcome to your new bloggy home. :)
Great job!! My favorite is the second up from the bottom, I love the house in the background!
Absolutely beautiful! I meant to comment yesterday - we seem to have had the same idea of 'seeing' our Weekly Winners through different 'eyes' - mine was a letter from Connor! Great minds think alike!
The selective focus is nice, but I like the lighting on the first shot best.
Wonderful, stunning, beautiful. All of the above.
Some of those shots are so ....Sensual. But the shot you took taking advantage of the shallow depth of field is excellent - just excellent. Well done you.
Excellent job. Love them all. Can you tell me what the purple flowering things are in your header? They look like artichokes to me, very pretty though.
Those are beautiful pictures. It's like you can almost smell them through the computer. Excellent
Stunning and gorgeous shots!! no daffodils around here, so this is a special treat!
Mine is up! happy Monday :)
I love the colors and the textures!
Beautiful! Peter was able to take a few pictures around the house, did you see them on my blog?
Oh I think we are very much the same when it comes to our likes and hobbies....cooking, photography, coffee, magazines...lol.
just beautiful!
so pretty, I just love "bloomin' things".
Daffodils are a sure sign of spring. :) These are great!
These are beautiful shots. I appreciate the effort you put in to them and the fact that you've described what you were thinking while you did it. It's good to share the process we go through I think!
So pretty. They are my daughters favorite flower.
I think my Macro button is broken because my pictures never come out as beautiful as yours.
Lovely yellow lovely.
@ Robin: If you do I'll guide you!
@ June: thanks!
@ Maggie: I like my new home!
@ Izzy 'n Emmy: I took so many, but this is one of the better ones!
@ Avril: I love it!
@ Horseartist: It looks almost transparent eh?
@ Jan: Thanks!
@ Lou: If you say so!
@ Kden: the purple flowers in my header are artichokes.
@ Thom: Great!
@ Mar: No Daffodils? That's too bad!
@ Amanda: I love textures myself!
@ Jacki: I did. Oh and I love how we are alike!
@ Pamela: they are.
@ Me and my puppies: I like how you said that!
@ Lisa: No Spring or Easter without Daffodils.
@ Kath: I thought it would be nice to include that!
@ Christine: How nice!
@ Nessa: Awww, that's too bad!
@ Robynn: Thanks!
Very, very, very lovely photographs. I just love these flowers.
Wow - these put the azaleas that are around here, to shame!
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