The May - July Flower Report
Please encourage me to cut down my 'editing-to-posting' time on photos, it's getting out of control
I got into a really good rhythm in the cohost days of posting photos regularly; I mean, I take photos every day of various things - walks, cats, the moon etc. But ever since the house of Eggbug closed, (and Bluesky and Masto became my only real forms of social media) I'm significantly less good at it. It can often be weeks (if not months?) before something I've taken gets online.
Which isn't to say that the only benefit of taking the photos is sharing them online; plenty of photos I take for me and I think it's important (especially in the modern capitalist hellscape) to not turn every hobby into a 'content creation' but since I often rely on getting work as a composer or photographer on projects by having an online presence I don't mind an attempt to consistently share stuff in these spaces.
Anyway one of the goals of this blog was to make it replace my otherwise need to post online. Keep it here first, and then share out to socials so I'm kind of happy that I'm hitting this apex of thought around the same time Blaugust has kicked off. Keeps me on my toes at the very least.
Please enjoy a selection of the flowers I photographed over the months of May, June and August.
And immediately going right to not a flower but I did wanna brag about this for a sec; we moved into our current place in 2021 and there were a lot of random plants all around it that we didn't understand; one of them is quite spiky but has pretty leaves and I, being from the desert didn't think much about it. It's budded a bit over the years but nothing serious - this year it fucking exploded with berries and footprint, it was much bigger than we thought. Anyway we have a fridge full of berries now and it rules.
Ok now we're just showing off. These ones always look like swarms of butterflies to me.
This carnation in our neighbor's yard has big "This is your brain / this is your brain on drugs" vibes going on. Each of the photos below were about 2 days apart.
Oh also got some rad bee shots. This kinda comes with the territory if you're in the act of 'photographing excessive amounts of flowers' though.
Anyway that's it for flowers. Hopefully they've brought you some joy.