Some more images today from our trip to Cedar Rapids.  Barb took us to a park with a lot of flowers.  I enjoy shooting flowers and I thought I grabbed my macro lens when I was packing Saturday morning but instead I grabbed the 85 mm portrait lens.  So I shot these images with the 80 – 400 lens.  They are okay but not to my liking.

If the weather is good I would like to go to the Dubuque Arboretum this Sunday evening.  I usually try to get there once a year.  By the looks of these flowers the ones at the Arboretum should be great to shoot.  It had stopped raining by the time we arrived at this park.  As I mentioned yesterday I used a flash to get some better light on the flowers.

If you click on this image to enlarge it and look carefully you will see a worm and a flying insect on the flower.  I didn’t notice them when I was photographing it.  I had a lot of trouble getting the composition I wanted with the lens I had so I limited my shooting to a very few flowers.

I couldn’t resist grabbing a shot of Barb and Emily discussing their shots of this flower bed.

That’s it for today.  Just a couple more images to show you of the CR  shoot and then it’s on to something else.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Enjoy your day and be careful.