Last week, I started a White Wednesday Roses feature on my blog ... and I just posted my entry for today. It gives me a chance to play with a theme (to keep me motivated while I can't actually BE in the garden), and it allows me to share the bounty of roses from last season with all of you.

Here are a few of them:

Princesse de Nassau

Westside Road Cream Tea

Snowbird

After being at it for a year now, I find that I really enjoy sharing my garden and my photos in the blog format. It's a natural extension of the writing I used to do for rose newsletters, but it's a lot more immediate and gratifying. The blog also serves as my Garden Journal, which is good since I have never been able to stick to a traditional written journal.

Feel free to add your own white flowers to this thread, for others to enjoy.

Connie

Florence

Yours are truly beautiful and you have an outstanding way to capture the roses to their advantage with your way to photograph them.

It was such a treat to look at your photos today in the morning! Thanks for posting!

Christina

Ever since I was in my teens (which was a long time ago) I have carried a camera with me just about everywhere I go. I have evolved through from a Yashica rangefinder, to a Canon A-1 when I was serious about film work, to a Nikon autofocus as my near-vision began to leave. Now I'm exclusively digital -- I have a Canon SD750 in my purse to use for general stuff, but my portrait shots are taken with my digital SLR.

I have found that the key to taking good garden photos is to experiment in different light. Bright daylight is rarely good. Light overcast is best for most colors, except white -- it makes white look dingy. White photographs nicely in dappled sunlight. Don't be afraid to manipulate the flower to get it turned into the light, if you can ... that's what I did with Snowbird to get that effect in the center of the flower. (I always check to make sure that my hand isn't in the frame.)

Here's some more white ... even though it's now Thursday. :)

Innocence.

Connie

Ingrid