William (Bill) Armstrong's photos with the keyword: flower

lavender and yellow

30 Dec 2024 30
An eye-catching combination of colours that I found in a nearby garden during the summer of 2024.

prickly

02 Nov 2024 2 2 31
A beans a flower, surrounded by prickly leaves. I would have changed to a macro lens for this image, but I expect the bee wouldn't wait around.

orange centre

29 Jul 2024 4 1 38
This flower grows in a neighbour's flower pot. Some folks at iNaturalist suggest that it is of the aster family.

green+white+yellow+red

25 Jul 2024 1 46
What a colourful flower. It appears to me to be like a green frosted dark, decorated with white, and surrounded by yellow and red.

red macro

25 Jul 2024 3 3 35
Every summer a single red flower grows alongside a wood fence that is weathered grey. The plant is surrounded by weeds, but somehow manages to produce flowers for a few days. I like the contrast between the bright red flower and the wooden fence.

it's a messy job..

27 Mar 2024 2 3 59
Working with a new macro lens, there were more misses than hits the first few times out in the garden. This was one of the better images.

sheltered

18 Feb 2024 2 2 45
It's unusual here to find a flower still blooming in October. This one had taken advantage of the shelter provided by the surrounding rocks.

squash flower

18 Oct 2023 2 46
Roaming around a community garden I saw this vibrant flower blooming in a squash patch. I mounted my macro lens so that I could move in close.

look at me yellow

14 Sep 2023 1 45
Most people are aware that flowers use their bright colours to attract pollinators like bees and butterflies. It seems to work for photographers, as well.

bee resting

27 Aug 2023 3 63
Walking around a community garden on a cool morning I saw this tricoloured bee nestled inside a flower. I think the bee may have spent the night there, because it did not move when I came close with my macro lens.

blossom and bee

06 Aug 2023 2 48
A lovely coloured flower with what I think is a small bee gathering pollen.

yellow, red, pink

31 Jul 2023 2 1 49
Nature's attention to detail really shows in this small flower, which includes yellow, red and pink elements.

a hairy survivor

20 May 2023 35
A neighbour's fence is covered with a tangle of vines. This is what one of the flowers on a vine looks like after a long winter exposed to the elements. I took this as an exercise in using a new macro lens.

frozen flower

19 Jan 2023 2 1 50
This flower bloomed last season beside a walkway near my back yard. I see it as a reminder of that season's fertility, and the promise of the season to come.

black on yellow

01 Aug 2022 1 48
A bee busily gathering pollen from hollyhock flower, while a photographer looks on.

pink hollyhock and bee

28 Jul 2022 3 2 66
A bee at work inside a hollyhock flower a two-minute walk from my home. A profusion of hollyhock plants grow along a wall at the end of a group of townhouses.

pretty, but don't come too close

04 Jun 2022 2 59
Ordinarily I would clear away some of the grasses around a flower to make a clearer image, but not with this cactus flower.

details 2

21 Mar 2022 4 62
A close up of the amaryllis that was in our kitchen, about a day before it bloomed. Sadly, now, it is no more.

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