Roses in the rain

[puddleshark]

Celebrated the return of the British summer - grey sky, rain and gales, at last! - and the acquisition of a new macro lens, by visiting the Secret Garden at Carey. Strangely, I had the rose garden entirely to myself. Just me, with my umbrella occasionally blowing inside out, and the roses uncomplaining in the wind and rain.





































I may have got a bit carried away. Really pleased with the new macro lens. So nice to have a working auto-focus again, after two years of struggling with manual focus. And it was half the price of the last macro lens I bought. Now that Canon have stopped manufacturing DSLRs and switched to mirrorless cameras, it seems there's a glut of secondhand Canon-fit DSLR lenses on the market.

Comments

[heleninwales]

That yellow rose is stunning and the pink ones are very pretty.

That's interesting about the Canon lenses. I've pondered getting a polarising filter, so I assume the glut of lenses would also apply to filters? I must investigate.

[house_wren]

No such thing as too many photos of roses!

Years ago, when I biked everywhere, I used to regularly stop at a rose garden in a park. There was a fountain I loved and I would rest there, eating my lunch. I liked it when the weather was wet and I had the place to myself. These pictures brought all this to mind. Lovely.

[puddleshark]

There are so many stunning roses in these gardens, though I didn't make a note of the varieties this time. (Too busy struggling with my flimsy umbrella in the gusty wind to take any pictures of the name plates.)

Filters seem just as expensive as before, unfortunately. Perhaps they are still compatible with the new mirrorless cameras.

[puddleshark]

Thank you!

I always love wandering round rose gardens best in the rain. I think the roses are at their most beautiful in the soft light of a rainy day.

[changeling72]

Ooh, the roses are pretty! I particularly like the one in the fourth pic.

I know a group of people including someone at work are going there today. 'Nice day for it,' I thought, as I walked up the road to work in the rain...

[heleninwales]

Oh, yes. Good point. I hadn't thought of that.

[puddleshark]

Yes, the roses are always gorgeous at this time of year.

Better today than tomorrow, looking at the Met Office forecast. It does not look like garden-visiting weather tomorrow. And I hope all the visitors to Wimborne Folk Festival have their umbrellas...

[summersgate]

Oh my gosh - I love your new lens!

[asakiyume]

Roses truly are wonderful flowers, and you've captured them beautifully.

[puddleshark]

Me, too. 😊

I hadn't really been happy with my flower photography for a while now... but apparently all I needed was a new lens!

[puddleshark]

Thank you!

I'm usually more a fan of dog roses than fancy flouffy roses, but I have to say the fancy flouffy roses in this garden are stunning.