Photography or a image I feel often captures those treasured moments in ones life but I also find that just like the act of writing our collective pictures can also be an art-form. The beauty and meaning of photograph can be expressed and shared in many ways including "by not using any words".

While I do like photography I used to share images when I could that I captured day to day events, the feedback was mostly positive and I continued sharing these "Ulog type" photos.

Almost every picture as a story to tell, or at least that is what I have often been told by some of my regular followers when I first started sharing photos on here.
To those who have often said and expressed that to me I would have to agree with them.

Today 24/3/2023 I share this capture.

Flower Photography, 13 Branch Rose

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Images By: @simonjay

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Well unless your a sleeping NPC or in a good place it hasn't been exactly a joyful year as the power supply companies raised the cost of energy at the start of January.
Honestly it's like they are charging more and more every 4 months or something, it's getting really out of hand and yet it's claimed we are able to produce more energy then ever before due to the technology we have today, the same as been said for food yet much of the world is struggling for food, sounds like someone is telling us lies.
To make it even better the greedy scum in charge of the energy are planning to once again raise the costs, guess I was right about a rise every 4 months.
While people are already angry about this in general it's not enough, we need to constantly be battling these idiots or we are going to be spending all our wages turning on a light for 1 minute, is this really what we want..
Not only that but it's also been a year since the attack in the Ukraine, on both sides thousands of innocent people are being affected. Now there is a ton of pressure on South Africa to finally end things by arresting Putin, but he as already warned any country who arrests him will suffers heavy losses with an attack on their country.

Last night I went to sleep at the the usual late hour which is annoying because I have been doing well these past 2 weeks mostly going to sleep earlier.
Sure there as been a few slip-up but mostly doing better and getting more sleep than I used to which is good but I hope that with now having a few things organised I can resume this as it was those things that were keeping me busy till late.

When I got up this morning I was hoping for a brighter day considering that yesterday and the day before were so dull and I think mostly a bit of rain, I'm not fully sure as I was in work most of the day.
Well this morning was better with lots of sunshine but I was worried like yesterday this may chance quickly.
The chance came about quickly because of the wind which we do not have today so if lucky it will stay sunny.
But I have my doubts as originally we are suppose to have about 2 weeks of rain not only that but I'm off from work and seeing friends later so no doubt it will rain.

I believe I woke-up slightly before my alarm I think this is because I developed a bit of a sore throat I started to feel it last night and fear it's perhaps this sickness going around that everybody says as the same symptoms are those of covid.. but people are panicking because the test are negative.. right and was not the typical flu or cold also mostly covid symptoms..?
Anyway my hope was that it would be well enough later to go and meet with friends, so I rested a bit longer this morning but not for long as I still needed to get started with doing chores and logging on Steemit.

But before I done all that I drunk lots of water in hopes of shifts this sore throat slight, later when on the computer I started to develop fever which is at least a sign your body is fighting something.

One of my friends got a promotion last week which will only be happening later in the year and I also believe it's not %100 confirmed yet.
For me personally I feel it's a bit early to be celebrating but of course this as nothing to do with me and if they want to spend money celebrating then I guess that's their choice, I'm just different in that way where I like it to be fully confirmed before I go and celebrate.

However this time we are just going out to mostly watch the new John Wick movie, my friend who originally suggested we start watching the movies was going to go alone and watch it.
But we surprised my friend by telling him we had now watched all the other movies and enjoyed them so we can all go watch the latest one together.

The weather was very "on and off" when it came to rain and sunshine, it really couldn't make up it's mind and when I left to meet with friends I was graced with with it being dry but this was not for long.

One of my friends went the wrong way when it came to our meeting point, so there were some delays with getting everybody together.
We decided to go get food somewhere before the movie, initially I had no intention of doing this but wanted to
definitely grab some snacks for the movie.
When we left from eating we was already running late and I had to hurry the guys to get moving, I got caught in the downpour that was happening as we left.
When we got to the snack place I was very annoyed that they didn't have any of the ones I wanted, I honestly go in there all the time and it's always stocked, this one time I wanted them for the movie nope.

Again the guys took way too long looking at what they wanted to get, so I had to hurry them a long, by that point I honestly thought we was going to miss it but since there was a lot of trailers during the beginning like every movie at the cinema we still caught the film from the very beginning.

This 4th and perhaps final chapter was definitely emotional towards the end if you liked the previous John Wick movies I would recommend it.
After the movie it was freezing out and everybody was in a hurry to leave for home as most of us have work the next day.

After making sure some friends were home safe I made my way home, thankfully no weirdos around and I got home.

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Picture

As for the picture today I share some flower photography and yes I know that this type of photography on Steemit has a bit of a bad reputation because it was often used by spammers to make like 8 posts each day.
Hopefully as you can see from my blog I'm nowhere near making 8 or more posts per day on the subject of flowers.

This was captured as the nice weather started, I'd say around nearly a month in after it kicked in, I was on my way to meet a friend and on this day I walked past these roses.
But I suddenly had to stop and capture them as not only did they look beautiful but there was a very slight pleasant smell in the air coming from them in this small area.
Here I captured a stem with probably the most amount of roses so far, I might be wrong but I think there were 13 roses here. Some of the roses are still closed I think some are still in development stages but it looks maybe some just didn't want to wake up on the day, could this be with not getting enough sun light I wonder? Well after stopping for a while to admire these roses I continued to make way for my friends house, hope you are liking some of these rose captures so far.

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Other Captures

Flower Photography, Single Big Rose Close-up

Flower Photography The 3 Flower Bush May

Flower Photography RoseLike Flower Single Focus

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