It’s good to be back for MMC! Hopefully I will be here each week from now on. This week’s image is part of a flower arrangement I received as a get well from a friend of mine. At first I loved the color but then all of a sudden I had this urge to process it in B&W. I kind of like the paper flower look and hope you do as well. Ahh…feels good to be back!
Please check out Leanne Cole’s blog later for the entire gallery.
Still Getting Well
Laura Macky Photography 
August 26, 2014 at 2:09 am
Luscious. I do love monochrome.
August 26, 2014 at 6:55 am
Luscious…I like that! Thank you 🙂
August 26, 2014 at 2:19 am
Welcome back Laura! Wonderful pic.. Hope you are feeling better! 🙂
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August 26, 2014 at 6:55 am
Thank you Julie. I am feeling better enough to take a once-in-awhile pic at home and once-in-awhile open LR and PS. haha! It felt good. 🙂
August 26, 2014 at 2:33 am
Beautiful light and details in a stylissh macroshot .
August 26, 2014 at 6:56 am
Oooo Stylishhhh…I LOVE that Ritva. Thank you!
August 26, 2014 at 7:01 am
hahaa…making fun of my spelling mistakes are you, 😀
August 26, 2014 at 7:07 am
Nooo I’m really not. That’s just me trying to speak it here in text. I love that you called my image stylish! way cool!
August 26, 2014 at 9:12 am
it was honey 🙂
August 26, 2014 at 9:52 am
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August 26, 2014 at 2:54 am
Beautifully done.
August 26, 2014 at 6:57 am
Thank you 🙂
August 26, 2014 at 3:08 am
Very nice Laura, love the contrasting shades in the picture.
August 26, 2014 at 6:57 am
Thanks much Mitch 🙂 Glad to see you back here.
August 26, 2014 at 4:16 am
I hope your paw heals soon! Nice flowers:)
August 26, 2014 at 6:57 am
My paw hehehee….thank you, Juan.
August 26, 2014 at 4:36 am
Welcome back, Laura! So happy to see your B&W 🙂 Love this one!
August 26, 2014 at 6:57 am
Thank you Amy 🙂 Now why did I think you might like this hmm???? 😛
August 26, 2014 at 7:07 am
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August 26, 2014 at 4:38 am
Welcome back. Hope the earthquake didn’t affect you.
August 26, 2014 at 6:59 am
Thanks George! Funy thing about that earthquake…That morning when I got up, I got an email from someone that asked if I was okay after the earthquake. Earthquake?? What earthquake? I looked at the news and was amazed. So I asked my husband when he came into the living room if he felt the earthquake. He looked at me wide-eyed and said that I woke up screaming about the earthquake, but I don’t even remember! I guess those meds I’m taking for pain for my knee replacement are working. LOL!
August 26, 2014 at 5:01 am
It looks real. Good ahot
August 26, 2014 at 6:59 am
Thanks much! It IS real lol….I called it “Paper” flowers because they looked like paper to me. I’m cracking up here.
August 26, 2014 at 8:08 am
I thought they were real …. too funny
August 26, 2014 at 8:13 am
Hehe it was cute
August 26, 2014 at 5:04 am
Love the flowers Laura. Ready for a walk in the garden? Glad you’re back PB 🙂
August 26, 2014 at 6:59 am
Thank you Dan 🙂 Well, at least a walk down the driveway hehe.
August 26, 2014 at 6:01 am
Beautiful! Welcome back Laura
August 26, 2014 at 7:00 am
Thank you James, good to be back!
August 26, 2014 at 6:57 am
Hi Laura, welcome back!
August 26, 2014 at 7:01 am
Thank you! So good to be here!
August 26, 2014 at 7:08 am
Nice!
August 26, 2014 at 7:34 am
Welcome back. I love the shading on the petals that looks so dramatic in black and white.
August 26, 2014 at 7:48 am
Thanks much! I appreciate it. 🙂 On both counts. 😀
August 26, 2014 at 7:49 am
Fantastic, Laura! 🙂
August 26, 2014 at 7:50 am
Thanks Fabio!
August 26, 2014 at 7:52 am
Sunny in San Diego! 🙂 Have a great day, my friend!
August 26, 2014 at 8:11 am
You too!
August 26, 2014 at 10:03 am
Such as lush black and white photograph. I love the subtle and rich tones of the petals. And the photograph is beautifully composed.
August 26, 2014 at 10:12 am
Thank you so much Otto. I appreciate it! 🙂
August 26, 2014 at 10:07 am
Beautiful tones- and a stunner!!!
August 26, 2014 at 10:13 am
Thank you so much! I love sunflowers, can you tell? lol
August 26, 2014 at 11:19 am
Reblogged this on william patrick photo and commented:
Gorgeous photography!
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August 26, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Love sunflowers, black&white or any other way. Thanks for the beautiful photo.
August 26, 2014 at 1:15 pm
Thank you! It was fun to take. I love flowers. 🙂
August 26, 2014 at 2:46 pm
Lovely entry Laura! And hope you are recovering well! 😊
August 26, 2014 at 6:48 pm
Thank you…for both comments. I am doing better each day. 🙂
August 27, 2014 at 5:51 am
Glad to hear! 😊
August 26, 2014 at 4:19 pm
So happy to see your back Laura; hopefully fully recovered. You have been missed 🙂 These sunflowers are stunning, inspiring me take some of mine growing on our deck. Warmest good wishes…A
August 26, 2014 at 6:52 pm
OMG I am so not fully recovered Andrew, but thank you for your wishes. It will be months before I am that…knee replacements are serious and take a long time to recover from. I will be intermittent here for while I fear. It’s fun taking pics when I can….as long as they are in the house lol.
August 26, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Another beautiful job!
August 26, 2014 at 6:53 pm
Thank you!
August 27, 2014 at 12:57 pm
😀
August 26, 2014 at 7:56 pm
Great shot Laura! I was just looking at a some flowers my wife has sitting on the dining room table thinking I should shoot them. They are an array of colors. I’m too tired right now which gets in the way of my creativity so hopefully in the next few days they’ll still have life in them that I can capture. Happy you are still in good spirits and things seem to be going along fine. Hope it continues like this for you.
August 26, 2014 at 8:09 pm
I know what you mean justin. I’m so tired and sore this evening and the last thing I want to do is take pics. Hope to see those flowers on your dining room table! And thanks for the positive feedback on my image. 🙂
August 27, 2014 at 12:00 am
Gorgeous get well flowers… seems like they’re doing the job.
You sound a bit better 🙂
Really do like the processing in black and white!
August 27, 2014 at 12:01 am
…sorry you’re sore and tired tonight. Sleep and rest xx
August 27, 2014 at 7:45 am
Thank you Robyn 🙂 I’m looking at them right now and they still smell so nice.
August 27, 2014 at 12:12 am
Excellent tones and texture
August 27, 2014 at 7:45 am
Thanks Raj 🙂
August 27, 2014 at 2:27 am
Hooray, welcome back!!
August 27, 2014 at 7:45 am
Thanks David…it will be sporadic but better than nothing.
August 27, 2014 at 7:23 am
Very nice image Laura, and welcome back.
August 27, 2014 at 7:46 am
Thanks Robin. 🙂
August 27, 2014 at 3:22 pm
Stunning as usual my dear. You know I’m going to have to get my thesaurus out to find more words that are just like stunning I think. lol
August 27, 2014 at 4:36 pm
Thank you Sue. I need a thesaurus too because I use that and gorgeous a lot, lol.
August 27, 2014 at 9:30 pm
Great shot.
August 28, 2014 at 5:44 am
Thank you 🙂
August 28, 2014 at 11:04 am
I have a feeling I should make it a more regular practice to try B&W versions of shots I like; this is a perfect reminder that even things that I think of as being most beautiful *for* their rich and saturated colors have other fantastic attributes that I can delight in when the color isn’t stealing the show. Lovely!
Hope you’re feeling better at high speed!!!
xoxo,
Kath
August 28, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Thank you Kathryn. :). Sometimes the world speaks in color even if we can’t see it! 🙂
August 28, 2014 at 12:04 pm
These look stunning in b&w, great framing too! Good to hear you’re feeling better.
August 28, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Thank you Simon. 🙂
August 31, 2014 at 3:39 am
i like this B&W version.
August 31, 2014 at 11:08 am
Thank you 🙂
August 31, 2014 at 9:25 am
Absolutely gorgeous!
August 31, 2014 at 11:09 am
Thank you Mark!
August 31, 2014 at 2:08 pm
Lovely capture, I think b&w just makes me focus on the textures more. My internet has been patchy but glad to have you back Laura! 🙂