It's lucky I'm used to getting funny looks...

...and indeed funny comments, because I certainly got a few of each while taking these photos! Not least because one of the local secondary schools finishes its school day just before I got to this location so quite a few pupils were walking past me, wondering why on earth I was scrutinising a bush so closely, photographing it from every angle, and even kneeling at the roadside at one point. But hey, this far into Project 365 I'm well used to it and just take my photos unperturbed! :-)

So anyway, I'm still working on Prompt 1 of LYPLYP - should finish that this evening, but here, out of sequence, is my response to Prompt 2: photographing flowers from different angles, playing with composition. First I should explain that I am by no means a natural gardener. My fingers are far from being green. They're more brown, withered and with weeds growing under the fingernails. (Metaphorically speaking only, I should point out!) Plan A was to walk to school to collect The Children, detouring through a local park, photographing flowers en route; Plan B involved taking fright at a few drops of rain, driving to school, realising that there were after all only a few drops of rain, giving self a pep-talk about wussiness, and photographing this flowery bush near the school gate.

I don't even know what these flowers are, not being a natural gardener. They look sort of lilac-y. That's the best I can do.

I took quite a few pics, and where there are two similar shots it's because one is with the macro setting and one is without. Sometimes that doesn't seem to have made much of a difference! I haven't edited any of them (yet) though a bit of cropping would benefit some of them and I definitely need to do something with the lighting of the one taken from underneath. For now though, without further ado, here are my photos:

Now, I'm not sure that I love any of these photos, but I like a few of them in different ways and for different reasons. Not sure which is my favourite though. What do you think?