leap into spring with blossom

Continuing with the photo challenge over on Project Alicia where the prompt for this week is blossom.  There is plenty of beautiful blossom on the trees on my regular riverside walk but my problem has been in capturing the gorgeousness in pixels.

First there is the problem of too much light and not enough contrast when using the sky as the background.

 

Lowering perspective and taking the flowers against the background of other blooms or the branches doesn’t work either – too busy

So I started hunting for blossoms growing in front of some better backgrounds.  This grey wall provided nice contrast

and I liked the doorway

but then I saw this against the yellow wall and it just popped. 

Now how do I go about ensuring more flowers grow in front of yellow walls??

Sunlight on water

One of my favourite photo challenges when walking by the river is capturing the light as it plays over the water.

I took all of these on the same walk last week an put them together in a web storyboard from The Coffeshop Blog.

I’m linking up with the lastest fun seasonal photo challenge from Project Alicia – leaping into spring.

Hope the sun is shining on you this week.