A little spring happiness at f/2.8

The garden is waking up...and today in the midst of email and editing and preparing for students and wedding album designing, there came a moment when the call became too strong to resist.  A rainstorm was whipping itself up, and the breeze was rushing past my window, and the daffodils and pansies were saying, "Come out and play!"

So I armed myself with a suitably wide-apertured lens (is that a word??) and spent the next fifteen minutes happily wandering among fresh sprouts poking up from brown earth and tiny flowers unfurling.

Nothing says "spring!!" like a brilliant yellow crocus.

 And around here, this yellow means spring, too.  ;)  And lemon bars and custard and other yumminesses.

 Forget-me-nots...

 

These humble sprouts will be incredibly ostentatious tulips in a month or two.  Small beginnings...

I think kale is awfully artsy stuff.  I guess maybe I can identify with its curly-ness.  ;)

Calendulas

This incredible beauty is helleborus, commonly named "Lenten Rose".  They're very modest little flowers, blooming with their heads bowed downward.

To me, this says "hope": an old rosebush, pruned in early winter, putting out sprouts.  In May the bush will be covered with apricot-pink roses.

I love shallow depth of field.  All of these photos were taken at f2.8.  A wee bit of sharp focus, with blurriness before and behind...truly entrancing.  I think it's the blurriness that I love so much.  It's soft, smooth...and mysterious.  You can make guesses about what it is.  But usually you don't really know.  Just something that looks good, blurry.

Isn't that life?  Sometimes the blurry things make other things stand out in sharp focus.  When you're sick, you appreciate the gift of health so much more. When someone is unkind to you, you're all the more grateful for those who ARE kind.  When you see how much you need God's mercy...you see what a merciful, faithful, infinitely patient God he is.

Till next time, friends!  Happy spring!



- Kelsey

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Kelsey Schweickert  |  San Francisco Bay Area wedding photographer
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