None of these flowers are especially exciting—pale violet hosta flowers, rather washed out Chinese astilbes, common phlox—but they're kind of fun photos, and I enjoyed taking them.

Sony A7c, lensbaby sweet 35, ev 0, 1/100s, ISO 100 WB: cloudy, 28Jul20205; cropped and scaled in gimp

The challenge, always, with the lensbaby, is focus, and I was pleased to get the dewdrops on these hosta flowers.

Another rather random snap that came out reasonably well

Sony A7c, lensbaby sweet 35, ev 0, 1/30s, ISO 100; WB: cloudy; 28July2025; cropped and scaled in gimp

And my fave—we got lots of rain this year, and so I have lots of phlox, a relatively undemanding flower that's happy to grow in part sun, which makes it among the more successful plants in my garden.

Sony A7c, lensbaby sweet 35, EV 0; 1/400s; ISO 100; WB: daylight; 29jul2025; slightly darkened in gimp, scaled to 4000 pixels

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