My mom loves gardening, and we have the yard to prove it.  Our property is covered with an assortment of flowering and fruit bearing plants, from pansies and tulips to parsley and cucumbers.  One of her new additions this year was a beautiful moon flower plant, an annual that grows on a vine and has heart shaped leaves and big beautiful fragrant flowers that bloom once, in the evening, and then wilt at sunrise the next day.  Because of its sweet scent and pretty leaves and flowers, this plant has quickly become one my (and my mom’s) favorites.

Earlier this week, I finally took some time to photograph the large flowers.  Instead of photographing the whole flower (ours is growing on a chain link fence, so it’s difficult to get an angle without any wires in it), I focused on close-ups, one of my favorite ways to photograph flowers.  Macro and close-up photos are particularly good for photographing garden plants, when getting a clean, natural background is sometimes quite difficult to come by.

When I do close-ups of flowers, I love focusing on the lines, shapes, and colors of the petals.  In particular, I often find myself coming away with abstract images, where it can be difficult to determine what the subject is without being told.  My favorite image from Sunday is one just like that, where the seam between two petals of a single moon flower create a sensual, flowing line across the frame.

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