Macro Monday: the Gerbera edition

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art, blogging101, fine art, macro, photo101, Photography, photography101

I have decided to do both the Photography101 and blogging101 course, my blogging about me and why I have decided to blog can be found HERE. The Photography101 prompt today is “home” and what it means to us, well for me home is the place that I tend to take most of my photos as I work full time and have two children who have very active social lives. I tend to spend most of my free time running them here there and everywhere in between this I can be found taking photos on the kitchen table, in the garden, of my kids etc etc, but the common theme is that most are taken at home.

The Gerbera is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was named in honour of the German botanist and naturalist Traugott Gerber. They are very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers. It is the fifth most used cut flower in the world (after rose, carnation, chrysanthemum, and tulip).