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Shrouded

September 15, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm macro photo of a Black-eyed Susan flower; the lens is cloudy creating a fog effect along with soft-focus and bokeh.

Happy accidents will come, big or small, and they must always be welcome. Next time your lens fogs up from a rookie oversight, make some fantastical flower photographs until you look upon the real world with clarity and focus once again.

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Until Next Season

September 9, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm low key macro photo of a black-eyed susan flower with shallow depth of field and bokeh.

With autumn coming in quick it is near time to put flower photo season to bed. Here is a late season Black-eyed Susan blossom demure before strong late afternoon light; strong contrast driving home the power of the photograph.

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The Collector

July 15, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm square format macro photo of a honey bee pollenating a black-eyed susan flower blossom.

Understanding the uncertain fate of the honey bee, a lynchpin species for prolific pollination needed in a balanced ecosystem, I am beyond pleased to have them feast upon my Black-eyed Susan flowers in numbers. Oh, and they make joyous macro photo subjects, too.

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Top Down

June 17, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm macro photo made top down on an early honeysuckle flower blossom.

Macro worlds will suck you in. Once lensed properly the eye sets upon the small things so easily ignored. In such small spaces countless details reveal themselves to the well attuned. Here we encounter such a journey as we venture into the macro world of honeysuckle.

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Layers

June 9, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm low key macro photo of a layered peony flower blossom.

Life is layers. Time passes and we add layers to mark our lived experiences—good and bad. Conversely, during our lives we peel back the layers built up by others. This is how relationships build. Peonies depict the concept of layers perfectly. Endless layers make up the big beautiful blossoms as a metaphor for life.

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Hats Off

May 29, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm low key macro photo of a string of lily of the valley flowers with smooth bokeh.

Art imitates life, and in my longing for youthful imagination I want to think lily of the valley flowers served as creative impetus for the bowler hat. This is patently ridiculous surely, yet I would love to believe it so. In the meantime I will photograph and I will imagine.

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Cast Adrift

May 8, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm macro photo of a low key, cross processed wisteria blossom; has a painted look.

From moody wisteria macro photos, to old colleagues, to baseball blogs, to the ending of three of the biggest pop culture franchises of our generation, photographer Greg Molyneux bounces through a litany of thoughts. Come for the photographs and stay for the musings.

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Heartstrings

April 30, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm macro photo of a multiple bleeding heart flowers hanging from its stem.

Bleeding Hearts (dicentra) are a captivating plant and make a wonderful macro photography subject. Dicentra’s unique, flower shaped blossoms with the tear drop bottom hold special allure for this photographer as a connection to the beloved Legend of Zelda series.

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Unbowed Heart

April 27, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

100mm macro photo of bleeding heart plant with nine heart shaped flowers bent upon its stem.

This entry is more than a macro photograph of the striking Bleeding Heart (Dicentra) plant and its beautiful heart shaped flowers. It is an exploration into the power and multifaceted nature of the human heart. For it is our hearts that is the powerhouse of the human condition.

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Tiny Dancer

April 19, 2019 by Greg Molyneux

Yellow daffodil macro photo with soft focus and bokeh.

A daffodil macro photograph capturing the yellow blossom imitating a ballerina’s pirouette. Here we have nature mimicking art, though I suppose it is more correct to note it is art imitating nature.

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Photos from the archives

A gritty, grainy black and white wide angle photograph of a wooden pedestrian path along an old bridge spanning the Great Bay Boulevard salt marsh
Wispy cirrus clouds shaded in pink pastels mark the sky over Barnegat Bay in this wide angle HDR photograph taken just after sunset in Surf City, New Jersey.
100mm macro photo of a Black-eyed Susan flower; the lens is cloudy creating a fog effect along with soft-focus and bokeh.
Square format photograph of cross processed purple coneflowers with rich bokeh and shallow depth of field
Square format 14mm photo of fresh snow atop pine trees at sunset.

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