Shot these while I was shooting the competition entry – amazing what a difference a couple of weeks makes 🙂
The first three blooms are all on the same bush.
Shot these while I was shooting the competition entry – amazing what a difference a couple of weeks makes 🙂
The first three blooms are all on the same bush.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Beautifully shot Bravo, they are sensational, 10/10
I like especially the dingle bloom with the petals turned back, lit from behind. Lovely. It’s so windy here nothing will stay still enough to photograph in the garden
Thank you ladies. The spots on the leaves, btw, are from dust washed out of the air by rain last week – the car washes did a roaring trade. (At this time of year we get a lot of Egyptian desert dumped on us if the winds are from the right quarter.)
They are spectacular, Bravo.
You are lucky. As Nym said, it is really windy today and I have a heap of rose petals and not much else. 😦