Some colour to brighten the day...

For no particular reason, except that I loved the colours together, I bought these gorgeous Gerberas at Woolworths a few weeks ago.

They looked so refreshingly colourful, I grabbed my little point and shoot to capture them.

Pink and Orange

When faced with such beautiful colours how could anyone go past these roses.

My patience is paying off with taking photos on my good ol' Fuji camera, and with a few new hints and tips from a photography 'guru', Leslie Shewring, my point and shoot hasn't done a bad job.

What do you think?

Not a bad attempt at arranging the roses either, if I do say so myself... The colours came out quite well also, so I haven't touched them up much at all. 

1. I'm comfortable using the macro on my camera, as it's quite easy to use and beeps when the photo is focused at a good focal length
2. Tried to show an overall view here without showing too much of my daggy kitchen table
3. Still close up with the macro feature, but pulled back a bit to show some more colour. I don't have the feature of F stops to enable focusing on an object and having the background appear out of focus
4. Focused on the orchid in the background, a bit of the front appears out of focus - getting there
5. Another overall view