Monet had his water lilies; I have my yellow Osteospermums. Like Claude Monet, I find myself coming back to the same subject in different lights. But that, I fear, is all I have in common with the great Impressionist painter!
The plants are backlit by the rising sun, which gives the whole photo a warm orange-yellow glow.
The extreme zoom has blurred the gum tree in the background, adorned by ‘specular highlights’ that glitter like jewels on the leaves.
Another day, another photo of
osteospermums at sunrise.
Slightly later in the morning,
and the golden glow is fading.
The flowers are their natural yellow in the clear sharp light of a winter afternoon.
An extreme zoom in the afternoon, with just one or two flowers in sharp focus against a cloudless sky.
Claude Monet deserves a look in, too:
this is one of his Nymphaea (water lily) panels
at the Orangerie, Paris.
And just for a laugh, a photograph I took of water lilies in Goa, India
— also hanging in the Orangerie. 😉
From sunrise in the first photo, to sunset in this one.
Pics by Kaz 
The sunrise photos have a very interesting light on the flowers. I really need to get up earlier 😉
Jude xx
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