Catching a breath in the flower garden

Simple graphical photo on blog today. I took it while at family party couple of weekends ago. I took the camera and went to catch some air between lunch and 4 o’clock tea. I was just watching Jasmine Star workshop a day before on CreativeLIVE and I still couldn’t believe that she can shoot wedding details, handholding at f/1.4. I wanted to give it a try. These flowers were blooming in a really dense bunch, so it was just a yellow spots and dark green leaves as a background. I had my equivalent of “nifty fifty” which is 30 mm f/1.4, so I opened it up to its limit and tried to keep one flower in focus. I like how the rest went blurry.