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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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Eclipse

August 4, 2017 by Greg Molyneux

Black-eyed Susan macro photo top down perspective.

A solar eclipse is coming. You know this. On August 21, 2017, cutting a 70 mile wide swath that will stretch from Oregon to South Carolina our Sun will bow before the Moon. For those along its path totality will last less than three minutes. In less than a blink in the cosmic eye observers […]

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In the Flower of My Youth

July 14, 2017 by Greg Molyneux

Black-eyed Susan macro photo with bokeh and shallow depth of field.

The flower’s life moves with speed. Governed by uncontrollable forces from dust to dust it will rise, flourish, and whither. Rejoining to the earth bearing the wear of a life well lived. Brief as that life may be. At its height a culmination of beauty, strength, and vigor owns the spotlight magnifying the magnificence of […]

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Picked by You

July 1, 2017 by Greg Molyneux

Black-eyed Susan macro photo with bokeh.

Oh beloved flower macro forever I hold dear. Time and again I’ve written about macro’s special place in my photographic journey. Were it not for my 100mm lens during 2012’s daily photo project I’m most positive I wouldn’t be the landscape photographer you know today. In truth, I wouldn’t be any kind of photographer today. […]

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Sunday Alone

June 26, 2017 by Greg Molyneux

Shallow depth of field photo of autumn colors black-eyed susans.

Yes this was published on a Monday, but yesterday when I was making what I’m ready to declare my best series of flower photographs in years was in fact a Sunday. I have it on good authority that not only is Sunday is a day that ends in ‘Y,’ it always precedes a Monday. Allegedly. […]

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Platformer

August 8, 2015 by Greg Molyneux

Square format macro photograph of a Black-eyed Susan and a fly

It’s funny how the mind recognizes patterns and builds associations. You’ll see, smell, or touch a thing and, boom, the mind’s eye reflexively retrieves a memory. Anytime my macro lens and I get low to go side-on with daisies or coneflowers familiar MIDI sounds of my youth start humming, and my brain renders a primordial […]

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Your Moment in the Sun

August 7, 2015 by Greg Molyneux

Low key macro photograph of a fly atop a Black-eyed Susan

Most always when shooting macro I rely on the camera’s autofocus system to home in on a single point of focus of my choosing—within the camera’s autofocus grid selection, that is. But for this shot I switched over to full manual focus. The system was struggling to capture optimal sharpness of the fly—if anyone can […]

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Working under cover

August 28, 2014 by Greg Molyneux

In this low key macro photograph of a Black-eyed Susan (yellow daisy), miniature insects are working in unison under the cover of the illuminated yellow flower petals and rich bokeh fades out the background.

Yellow daisies. Shoot ’em while they last. Last week I was taking advantage of the late afternoon sun to create some dramatic flower macros with my Black-eyed Susans backdropped by a Japanese Maple. Some folks find too much sun a bad thing with their flower macros while I find it to be a most useful […]

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Photos from the archives

Honeysuckle photo with shallow depth of field and bokeh.
Macro photo depicting a reticulated pastel sedum bloom
35mm square format photograph of large hydrangea hanging baskets lining a greenhouse corridor within Longwood Gardens conservatory.
Macro photo of a carpenter bee collecting wisteria pollen.
Golden hour photograph of guardrails, power lines, litter and the salt marsh

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