Gardenalia 2

A few words of explanation about the watering cans “Dry country”. These are symbolic of the amount of water demanded by the plants in this area of the Cranbourne Gardens, a division of the Royal Victorian Botanic Gardens. A future post will provide more explanation.

Weekly Photo Challenge : Focus

Sometimes it is interesting to practice using the ‘point and shoot’ camera in macro mode. The test is to get the desired subject in focus! There is no better place to try this than in gardens, and in contrasting seasons.

Spring at the beautiful Sheffield Park Gardens near Haywards Heath, East Sussex.

Autumn ‘down under’ at the Conifer Gardens Tree Farm, a wholesale nursery at Ferny Creek near Mount Dandenong, east of Melbourne.

Of course, a this scientist interprets ‘focus’ literally; but he is very happy with the ‘blur’ achieved.

This is one of many responses to the weekly photo challenge, Focus