I love how white spirea blooms can completely fill a hedge and brighten up a late spring landscape. When the bushes are left to grow, they reach quite a height and are a mass of tiny white flowers. I tried many times (on this and other occasions) to photograph them, using my macro lens as they are very small, but a documentary photograph did not seem to do justice to the profusion of blossoms. A macro lens multiple exposure seemed to give a much better representation and it even hides a tiny bug in the middle of it (if you can see it!).
We have a hedge right in front of my kitchen window, which is where I took this photograph. All through the rest of the year we find the shrub a nuisance and threaten to pull it out, but when it is in bloom, I love to see it.
Enjoy your week everyone!
View the blur gallery below for more multiple exposure images:
When Life is a Blur
The photographs in this gallery are intentionally blurred or otherwise fantastic in their appearance.
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+Heiko Mahr thanks very much! Lovely comment, Heiko.
You transform the real flowers into the flowers of our imagination +Ellie Kennard.
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+Terry Knight thanks for your visit.
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Ah, Ellie. These are marvelous. Some I remember fondly. Others were a new experience. Both..wonderful. I love blur land! I also have an “Ya gotta laugh” story I thought you might enjoy.
After several months of unrelenting migraines…and an unrelenting doctor who has been talking to me about this for some time…I decided to try the Botox treatment. It’s 31 shots of poison (botox is a poison) into my head and neck. Not fun, but sounds worse than it was. AFTER the treatment, the doctor said, “Oh…and it doesn’t do anything for the first three months, but the second treatment kicks in right away (usually).” NOW he tells me! Ah well. The stuff was already in my head, not much I could do. Sure enough, it’s been a bit of a trial, but no worse than before so that’s good. THEN (the ta da! moment) I noticed something. You know those forehead lines we all get? The nasty little things that could be a staff on a sheet of music but without the notes? Well…I now have the SMOOTHEST forehead ever! There really IS a silver lining to just about any cloud! Every time I think about it I giggle. Hope you do too.
Thanks so much for that lovely comment about the blur images, Sandra!
And I did indeed laugh about your poison line removal! I only hope that the result was also the removal of the migraines. They are horribly debilitating, I really feel for anyone who suffers.
Your description of those lines made me laugh. You would have thought that with those lines you would also have musical notes placed on them. But perhaps we all do. In the music of our lives! (Glad yours are smoothed over, though.)
Thanks a lot +Valerie Liney – yes, fun indeed. I love the idea of the multiple facets of flora.
Cheers +Sumit Sen !
Lovely capture!
Ellie you have been having fun and yes some very nice images . I love the dizzy one of Steve on the mower when the throttle stuck .
Remember as we age everything slowly goes out of focus so it will become easier ….
Thanks a lot, Len. Yes, lots of fun, taking more care than might be apparent! But you are so right about the aging bit. It becomes easier every day.
Beautiful multiple. Lots of fun!
Thanks a lot +Louisa Catharine Forsyth!
Very beautiful Ellie
Thanks very much +Shelly Gunderson!
Thank you +Jetski – I love the effect, when they work out well!
multiple exposures with a taste for beauty.. nicely done yet again :))
Lovely one!
I'm so glad you like them +Alex Lapidus – they almost deserve a collection of their own, or soon will, I guess.
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Wonderful series, these each have a different personality!
+HQSP Flowers thanks very much for the reshare, +kaatje jansen!
This beautiful picture has been shared at +HQSP flowers. Thanks for your contribution & have a nice evening!
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+Nataly Rubeo thanks a lot Nataly! Same to you!
wow Elli…this is just amazing! It look so beautiful!:-)
Wish you a wonderful day, my friend!:-) +Ellie Kennard
+Ursula Klepper thanks so much! My thoughts exactly!
Thank you so much +Heidi Anne Morris!
Oh my! Very pretty x
I really like the dreamy feeling that the multiple exposure gives to these! It is much more room for self imagination than one documentary photograph would be able to give!
+pappu ram nahak thank you!
+Sharon Stone thanks a lot and for looking for my little bug. He's in the middle, perhaps being watched over by the face!
It's now easier to see a bigger image on my blog gallery, especially as the new G+ doesn't allow zooming.
Happy Monday, +Ellie Kennard! So when I made this shot bigger to try and find the bug, I found no bug, but I found a face. To me it could be a dog, a tiger, or even maybe a horse with a flowered hat. Said face, that I see, is on the right. This is a beautiful shot, Ellie, of such delicate flowers, even with a face front and right/center ;-D
Wow v nice