Peter Truman Photography

It's now early October in the garden and the weather has started to deteriorate once again, the nights drawing in, a chilly feel is in the air, leaves are reddening and dropping from the trees, and in-doors we've had to light the fire a couple of times already. The weather forecast is hinting at frost. Autumn is here. The borders are past their flowering best and seed heads are becoming the feature to look for.

Yet amongst all the signs of things shutting down for autumn and preparing for winter, this little geranium flower was unfurling today. As with many of our geraniums in the garden (we have quite a number of different varieties) the petals are showing their beautiful patterns, a deep red against the pink, but that is not what caught my attention. It was the inside of the flower, seemingly ready to advertise itself to passing insects that appears to be working its way out of the 'barrel' of petals that are unfurling.

To capture this I used the trusty 180mm f3.5L macro lens wide open - I wanted the inside of the flower to be the focus of attention (as it caught my eye) leaving the rest to blur, an unopened bud to the left suggesting there is more to come from this plant. However, given the falling temperatures this will probably need to come into the conservatory for it's performance to be completed.

Canon 1Ds Mark III, 180mm f3.5L lens, ISO200, f3.5, 1/400sec. Handheld.

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