sanmiguelphotographyblog

I sometimes fall into a trap of thinking that to take a great photograph, which is the goal, I always have to:

• Drive a 1,000 miles to Moab
• 4WD into a dangerous desert canyon (alone)
• Hike on a difficult trail lugging 30 lbs of camera equipment
• Climb on top of an impossible rock
• And then wait (hope) for good light to take a photograph

But as we know, many wonderful photographic subjects can be found close to our homes – if we can let go some of our preconceived ideas of “the only things I photograph are…”

I took the two photographs below at my friend’s home two weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon.  She has wonderful gardens filled with a variety of beautiful flowers.  (I can never remember the names of the flowers.)  She also has two very sweet Cocker Spaniels.  So I decided to dust off my Canon 180 macro and explore her flower gardens.  I came away with 6 very nice shots.  As for her dogs, I waited until they had calmed down a little and used the 70-200mm for a close-up.