I've always loved taking photos of flowers. Even with my first digital camera, a Fujifilm 1.3MP one, I used to go out into my parents garden that's always full with flowers, and take photos. Usually it was because I was looking for a good colourful shot to then isolate from the rest of the photo by keeping it in colour and making the background and rest of the photo black and white. Simple digital alteration which really looks nice in my opinion.

Anyhow, seeing as we're down at my parents for just another day, and the sun was shining (yes I know, the books say you should only take shots on an overcast day, but I'm no pro now ), so I figured I'd grab a few shots with my new found knowledge of using a different angle to the one of 'from above'.

The colours in their flowers are really strong (so much for the sun vs overcast theory!) so I may try doing a little isolation on a couple of them.

I also came across this spider's web which despite my fear of spiders, came out quite well. Any of my Flickr contacts can view a 1280*960 px version if they wish

Now all I need is a 0.5m tripod