Unbelievable that it is December 1st today.  OMG time is going at WARP speed it seems.  I have a bunch of flower images for you to look at from my Reiman Gardens shoot.  When I say a bunch I mean there are several.

The question is do I show you images from worst to best?  By saving the best for last do I so jaundice your vision of the flowers that you cannot appreciate the best of the group?  Should I show the best first and by the time you get to the last image you may consider them all bad?

Or should I only show you my best three of the entire shoot?  No I think I’ll just mix them up and let you judge each flower on its own merit.  These images were captured with the Nikon D700 with an ISO setting of 200.  I used a Tamron 90 mm macro lens fitted with a macro TTL ring flash.   Shutter speed was a constant 1/60 sec with variable aperture values.

I took these images after I left the butterfly room.  This was at an indoor garden but there were no butterflies around.  I was talking to my friend Steve today and he use to live around the Ames area.  He said when he was visiting the gardens there was no charge for entrance.  I suspect the charge came when they became a Federal Butterfly Preserve.  Anytime the government gets involved in anything it’s going to cost money.

There were some pretty exotic flowers in the garden.  Some that I had never seen before.  I think I enjoyed shooting the flowers as much as I did the butterflies.  It was a lot easier to capture them.  🙂

Tomorrow night I have a big shoot in Clinton, Iowa.  I will be making portraits from a woman’s event held at our bank.  I did this last year and it was a lot of fun.  This year promises to be bigger and better than every.  I can’t wait.

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your day and be careful.