On the way to work.

Yes, you’ve guessed it, I took this photo on my way to work.  Within the industrial estate there is a line of trees, and, almost in fairy rings around them, someone has planted muscari (grape hyacinth).  One morning there was a lot of dew on the grass, so I thought it would be an opportunity to take a photo of them.  I tried some close up photos, but they didn’t come out – a combination of low light, camera shake and the preference for the auto focus to look at the tree behind rather than the bright blue flower right in front of the lens.

However, with some judicious cropping, I think this one has come out OK.  I posted a tighter crop on Flickr, but I think I prefer this one with all of the stem of the front flower in the picture.  In an ideal world, there would have been separation between the main flower and the one directly behind (or, as a judge would say I should have pulled it up), and there would not have been another flower at the base of the stem – but they were there and I am not attempting to clone them out.

I had my Canon S90 on macro mode for this picture, and allowed it to choose all of the settings – ISO80, f 3.5mm, 1/50 secs at 8.36mm.