Canon EOS Rebel T3 / 1100D Sample Pictures

The eye is that of a black American Quarter Horse.

When shooting car pictures, be sure to move in and capture the details along with the big picture.

It is hard to take an ugly picture of an anemone flower.

Hyacinth flowers are filled with attractive compositions. Move in and take advantage of them.

A blue hyacinth adds background color to this just-opened spring flower.

This wide angle portrait of a girl and her horse was taken from a far enough distance to avoid significant perspective distortion, but close enough retain the viewer's sense of presence in the picture.

Finding this big leaf with a drop of water in it called for a photo. I carefully aligned the lens so that the relatively shallow depth of field (due to the close focus distance) would falls across the plane of the leaf. I rotated the camera so that the veins in the leaf were angled throughout the frame.

These two-toned leaves positioned closely together created a pattern that I liked. Lighting is sunlight diffused by a greenhouse.

Finding a patch of beautiful flowers can make finding a great subject easy. The work comes in positioning one or more of the flowers so that the background supports the subject. Here I positioned the foreground Black-Eyed Susan flower so that it was about 1/3 of the way into the frame and centered it between the three most-visible background flowers. Using the longest-available-in-this-lens focal length, a wide open aperture with a close focus distance allows the background to go blurred. Lighting is from a cloudy sky.

Your neighborhood greenhouse is calling you. Greenhouses create ideal macro and flower photography lighting almost any time the sun is up. And they are typically filled with beautiful subjects. Get permission to take your camera to your local greenhouse (and buy a couple of flowers to insure good will towards your next visit).

To get a happy subject, capture them with something they love.

This colorful flower was captured in a greenhouse - which delivered a very soft light - which allows the natural colors of the flower to create the patterns in the image.

The tight green growth of these not-yet blooming flowers create an even busyness that I like.