Focusing on the wrong thing

I confess that I have been playing with my phone camera more lately. It is just so fast, small, and handy to use. The images are not terrible either.

But I did not forget about my cameras. Oh no! The phone shots still cannot beat the quality I get from more proper gear and a good lens. But sometimes I just can't be bothered to carry it all with me. That's my excuse, and I will stick to it :)

These are not phone shots. This is the King Helios, dear friends I sometimes get to play with.





The few types of iris my mum grows in her garden are planted by colours. The brown ones are the largest group growing under the big pine. Stunning, dark flowers with extremely delicate petals. I don't think each flower lasts longer than 2 days, and you can see a lot of dead ones. But they keep growing new buds, so the blooming fest can last a few weeks.

They are, obviously, great material to shoot. Especially that they are surrounded by a lot of green bushes. The afternoon sun helped here a lot too, catching some nice bokeh and shadows.





A row of yellow ones on very long stems and a beautifully fragranced. They need some support, or the wind breaks them.

A lost double-colour one.
I just love how the background turned out here.

I was focusing so hard to catch the lovely bokeh that I actually missed the focus :p But who would pay attention to the flowers with all the bokeh around?...

And here is the perfect example of it.
Bokeh looks delicious! The flower not so much 🙈

All the bubbles come from the light that was reflecting on the apple tree leaves and shining through some gaps.