yellow and red petaled flower macro photography

Gazanias come in many colours, and the orange and yellow ones seem to me to exude sunshine and joy. These are tough plants, especially for the seaside in warmer climates, and are found naturally in South Africa.

David Clode

water drops on yellow and purple daisy flower

J Williams

Gazania daisies come in a wonderful variety of colours. In this photo I used an A3 colour photocopy of a blurred rather non-descript light blue background, to avoid being a distraction from the bright flowers. Blue is the complementary colour of orange.

Nima Mohammadi

Sandra Alekseeva

A beautiful gazania (daisy) flower. I have made some backgrounds for taking macro photos of insects, flowers, products or whatever, from some of my artworks. I make these into A3 or A4 colour photocopies. I make them blurry to help create a bokeh background ("pre-bokehed" if you like, I just made up that word). In this example I used a background with colours which closely match the colours of the flower.

yellow and pink flower in tilt shift lens

Gazania tropical flower plant close up in full bloom.

Cristina Anne Costello

A close up of a flower with a blurry background

Dawn Casey

A column of smoke resulting from the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip