So, this is a photo I recently took in Massachusetts. NRA was staying at our coach, Tino Specht's house. They live and work an organic farm, and their gardens are gorgeous. Their property is total photographer's heaven. I took a ton of pictures of the flowers, still in full bloom. The colors were beyond amazing. What I love about the picture shown here, is that it is full of natural beauty. One of my favorite parts of photography is the ability to capture just the immense range of sights that occur in nature. Part of being a photographer is "making" shots, not just taking them. Although I do love the satisfaction of creating a good shot, and I did pull grass and other flowers away from this flower and tilt it more into the light to make it a better shot, there is something so fluid and basic about just capturing the essense of nature's. 
   This photo is an example of color. The orange really stands out against the shallow background, which I made shallow by having a small aperature number (big aperature). To me, this color orange stands for fun, for summer, energy, warmth, sun. It denotes a playfulness, a carefree state of mind. This picture is also a good example of filling the frame. Filling the frame is where instead of having a picture with maybe this flower in the center, and then just the green stems etc around it with maybe some other flowers, you have just the flower. This prevents the viewer from distraction and makes your image more powerful. It is also more pleasing to the eye. 
    The picture was taken with a 6.3 f-stop. The shutter speed was 1/50 sec. The focal length was 200mm. ISO was 200. It was taken early morning during photography class. There was full cloud cover.
            Enjoy!