Spring flowers, post your first here!

[JZaun]

Ok, Snow post did real good how about your first spring flower pic this year! Show it here.. Here is mine.
JZ
http://www.bytegallery.com/data/3102/51IMG_3088-med.JPG

[RJSorensen]

I am game for this . . . and I can't get my horizon off either! I had to travel 150 miles south to take this, but I KNEW that it would come in handy. Thanks for starting this beautiful post!

20D/17-85

[HJMinard]

Flowers are still just a rumor here in Michigan ...

Very nice shots Jerry and RJ !!

[sparker1]

Nice shots, fellas. Mine may not qualify, since hibiscus blooms year-round here. However, it's the only flower I've photographed recently. BTW, the background didn't blur as much as I wanted, even at f 1.8, so I blurred it more in PS.

[BigDBronco]

took this recently, not much comming out in western NC yet

[mgpro]

very poor compared to you guys, just had my ixus handy and saw this beautiful blossom
Alex
http://www.mgpro.co.uk/Beautifulblossom.jpg

[mgpro]

How do you guys get such good results? I am brand new to this forum, and use my old ixus-i4 for everything, so the quality isn't great, but i was quite happy with that image above!
Alex

[Maureen Souza]

Here's mine...macro mode all the way!

[Littlenose]

I think this is the first flower pic that i've been happy with this year... taken on Ranmore Common about 2 hours ago... lying in the grass surrounded by them and using a 300m lens. It's the first time i've tried using the long lens to make a short DOF, but i'm happy enough that i'll be trying it again... bring on the bluebells... then i know summer's coming for sure.

[Chazs]

It's quite a dark overcast sky and not very photo cooperative, but not many more days left for the daffodil fields; this may be my only chance before the tulips come on strong.

http://home.wavecable.com/~stevensc/photos/daffodils01.jpg

[down_shift13]

these were taken at the south coast botanical garden here in palos verdes california with my d30 and 28-70mm f3.5-4.5 II.

[Chazs]

I never really noticed the little green tips on the petals before.

http://home.wavecable.com/~stevensc/photos/flowers.jpg

[cmM]

littlenose, the pic of the snowdrop is awesome! Those are supposably the flowers that bring spring :D ... I'm still waiting for them to come out around here :(

[Littlenose]

cheers ccM ... and although its cold there now, you know that your summers are much more settled than ours... so it evens out i think... for all we know, this weekend may BE our sumer... just as milou states... "blue sky shocker"

I like Jerry's Crocus' [sp?] best of all the pics so far... i think because i've tried to et them, but fail to get the DOF right everytime... nice capture Jerry... and nice exposure too. :)

[Orogeny]

From southeast Texas:
http://www.pbase.com/image/40689257.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/orogeny/image/40689258.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/orogeny/image/40689256.jpg

Tim

[pierrot]

Here's mine...macro mode all the way!
100mm macro. Obviously we're a bit late here in Paris, compared with California.

But we're on a waaaay more northerly latitude! ;)

http://pierre.henrion.free.fr/Photo/prunus.jpg

[Belmondo]

I took this shot of my back fence while testing a new lens a couple days ago.

http://www.onlinephotographers.com/gallery/albums/Hot-August-Nights/Back_Fence.jpg

[am_pitbull_terrier]

Here is one I did the other day and played around with a little oil paint effect.
I think it gives it an almost dreamy effect.

http://img83.exs.cx/img83/9741/img175aa8sh.jpg

[grey world]

Cool little flowers.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/pape13/mexico194.jpg

The water lilys were looking spectacular.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v346/pape13/mexico164.jpg

[Starry]

This is the first flower to bloom in my garden this year. Wales' national flower to celebrate our win in the rugby yesterday :) Taken with my little A60.

[dispatchermike21]

We have had a rather early spring alot of our trees and bushes are already strating to lose their flowers.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/dispatchermike21/65830003.jpg

[Cobra351]

Playing with my new toys, a new 350 XT and a 70-200 f4L. Haven't been able to get all the settings the way I want them yet, but enjoying the process!

Here's my two:

http://www.pbase.com/boss351/image/41019011



After the first Spring rain too!
http://www.pbase.com/boss351/image/41032465

[mgpro]

Another blossom image in the gorgeous weather.
http://www.mgpro.co.uk/blossomresized.jpg
http://www.mgpro.co.uk/blossomedit.jpg

[alfa1six4]

Here's my contribution. Shot at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, GA about 2 weeks ago. Anybody know what it is??

http://gcerasoli.smugmug.com/photos/17085874-L.jpg

[MarkoPolo]

Here are some of the first shots I took with my 10D and 70-300IS last April. Our flowers aren't up yet (except for a dandelion or two!)

[MarkoPolo]

One more from that snowy day.

[Aethyr]

I'm cheating, because these are planted flowers, but hey they're flowers and it's the first day of spring, so why not!

http://www.red-december.net/flowers03.jpg

[TammieO]

We didn't get any snow this year and the wind is blowing pretty hard today. But, I wanted to include a flower from my backyard, so I pulled out the trusty 100mm macro.

[paule]

Hi all.. Heres my little input... Taken with nifty 50 1.8

[VesselinG]

This one was made "on the run", because I was hurrying to get some ice cream, it was so hot that day... hot and bright! :D I kno its nothing special, but... I like it.

[Michaelmjc]

Here is my contribution.

[txdude35]

Here's one I took a couple of days ago. Very overcast day, so there's no sky to speak of.