Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: aster

Steve and I have a friend who told us about the Ashland Garden Tour, because her garden was selected as one of the featured gardens. Steve and I went to visit her a week before the tour and I spent hours taking pictures that day. These lovely blue asters were just one of the countless beauties in her garden! Explored on Sept. 1, 2016. Highest placement, page 4.

What a magnificent flower to have in a garden. Easy to grow, these plants will reward you with dozens of stunning blossoms over 2-3 months! They are a fantastic photography subject from bud to after they have dried up! And because they are large, they make fine practice subjects for photographers of all levels. Being large with a shape that isn't hard to capture, they are forgiving for newer photographers. For those who are adept at macro photography, the macro details offered by this flower abound! Hairy sepals, leaves and stems, velvety-looking centers, and as this flower matures, the brown area you see erupts into tiny yellow florets! Black-eyed Susans are MAGNIFICENT!! :) (I photographed this beauty in my raised-bed garden a few years ago, and had fun adding a texture to the background. :D)

Playing with a very shallow depth of field is so much fun, and is a great way to call attention to certain details. Here I'm showing the edges of the petals of an aster flower, while the rest of the flower falls away into blur. This flower was in a garden which was part of a walking tour that Steve and I went on a couple of years ago in Ashland.

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

Asters growing in my father's yard? Really?! Ok then, I must take pictures! Behind them are some happy little daisies cheering the asters on! :D This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

This image was taken during the Rogue Valley Photography hike to Mt. Ashland on August 7, 2011.

This image was taken during the Wildflower MeetUp hike to Mt. Ashland on July 30, 2011