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

[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]

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.