I always talk about making sure to check out the backside of flower because sometimes you can find a cool image.

With this image I wanted to create a painted look so found filters in Smart Photo Editor and came up with this.

Here is the original out of the camera.

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While at the local garden center picking up flowers for the flowerpots, I will see flowers I find interesting, so I pull out my cell phone and photograph them.

Here are two flowers that I show the before and after creative processing done with Smart Photo Editor.

Before

After

Before

After

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It seems when it comes to macro photography the number one subject that photographers shoot is flower and followed by bugs. 

Flowers are beautiful colorful subjects that are easy to find and can be shot outside or inside making them the most popular subject to shoot.

I think people forget there are tons of other subjects to shoot when it comes to macro photography.

It can be lots of fun spending time in nature searching out all these examples of subjects you can shoot.

So many opportunities to photograph the many different kinds of leaves throughout the four seasons.

Head to a beach where you can photograph seashells or bird feathers lying on the sand.

In the Fall head to the woods to shoot mushrooms.

In the Fall head to the open fields and hopefully you have some Milkweed Pods.

Early Spring and summer we have Dandelion and Goatsbeard flower seedheads to shoot.

If you live in the north, during the cold winter you can find ice puddles and stream edges to shoot artistic ice images.

If you live in the south or west, you can photograph all the tropical or desert plant life.

Summertime brings out the spider webs.

I love shooting fiddleheads ferns in the woods.

There are all kinds of interesting plant life.

Rocks 

Tree Trunks

Seach out sun backlighting for shadows.

So as you can see, lots of great ideas for subject matter, and a great way to spend time in nature.  Mother nature provides us with all this amazing artwork.  Keep shooting your flowers and bug but expand to other subjects as well.

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In the San Diego Botanical Garden, I came across this interesting Agave plant. 

Here is the image of the plant.

If you look to the part of the plant just right of the center you see a form that looks like a swans head.  

I framed it so that the swans head was in the foreground of the frame and found an angle to the swans head so that the background was completely covered by the large leaves of the plant.

Shot at f/32 for max depth of field with a Tamron 18-300.

Post processed in Smart Photo Editor using a darken filter to give it a dramatic feel. 

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