front and centre

Now I don't have much in the way of garden space at my home.  But the small patches I do have I like to look after and make sure they look their absolute best.

When I was able, this entailed a regime for looking after my lawns that included three times weekly mowing and a monthly feeding regime that resulted in grass rivalling a golf green at the best country club with this, lush, green grass and not a weed in sight.

Nowadays I no longer have a back lawn, and although I still feed my patch of grass at the front of the house it is now only cut once a fortnight throughout the summer.

This means that weeds are allowed to grow and while in the past I meticulously removed any such foreign objects, these days I quite like having them invade my garden and I let them grow happily between each mowing.

Three images then this week from my front garden of things growing where they shouldn't!

Nikon D700. Micro Nikon 105mm f2.8G
1/1600th of a second at f3.2, ISO 200
handheld

Nikon D700. Micro Nikon 105mm f2.8G
1/2500th of a second at f3.2, ISO 200
handheld

Nikon D700. Micro Nikon 105mm f2.8G
1/2500th of a second at f3.2, ISO 200
handheld

What I have been really enjoying with my photography over the summer has been the freedom to just shoot what I please without worrying about how the light is looking or getting perfect front to back sharpness in my images.  

Shooting at larger apertures has meant a shallower depth of field and greater subject isolation, but the resultant faster shutter speeds also mean no tripod to have to worry about, increasing that sense of freedom even further…

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