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.

[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...

[summersgate]

Oh my gosh - I love your new lens!

[asakiyume]

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