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Summer is here at last!
Jun 22nd
I don’t know about you but my excitement begins when I see the likes of them around at the start of the year. Still close and ‘threatening’ to open anytime soon…
Because that means spring has sprung and about to be followed by summer, my favorite time of the year!
It’s here, it’s here! and like those birds chirping way too early in the morning and waaaay past their nesttime (bed time?) I am greeting summer with loads of fun plans! How about you? 
Angie’s rose
Jun 8th
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Last year during one of our many conversations, Angie my friend mentioned that she wanted to get hold of a photo of Peony rose (pioenroos in Dutch) have it blown up and to be displayed somewhere in her home. I said I will provide her that photo in high resolution but we have to wait for the rose season, which is now. Since I buy flowers every Saturday, I have been hunting for a good bunch, which isn’t easy to find. I love this flower too because of its heavenly scent! I remember my father in law cutting his peony roses from his garden just to give to me. It’s a shame that my father in law now lives in a nursing home.
Anyhow, what you see here isn’t that photo yet because this was just among the test shots I made last night (yes Angie, that was the reason why I suddenly had to leave you during our YM chat last night 
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I tested it against a black background figuring it would bring out the color more. I’ve tried 1, 2 lamps. With external flash. With built-in flash. Even without light at all. The delicate almost silk like petals made it a bit difficult for me to balance the light ( oh, the OC in me, for crying out loud! ) I also wanted to try a light behind it but I forgot that I don’t have that (light), duh! But perhaps after +70 shots I started yawning and well….went to bed to get my zzzzz’s .
I hope to find more fresh poeny roses to shoot…by hook or by crook, Angie will get her photo. I hope.
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