Brenda Landrum

This Week’s Edit

May 21, 2026

As much as I wish I could take new photos every single day and have new images to share all the time, that just isn’t real life for me. The camera has sat on the kitchen island more than being in my hands this month and the goal of updating the print shop hasn’t gone as planned. Instead, in the in-between moments of life, I found images that I had never edited before plus a moment to escape to the garden to photograph what’s blooming currently. Those are the images I’ve been looking at this week.

Layers of Petals

I recently rediscovered an entire series of images of a gorgeous rose that I took back in February 2021. Not one image was ever edited to my surprise. There were many other blooms that I had taken photos of and I guess I was just more excited about those that I never got to this set. Until recently. I edited the first image below fairly quickly and shared it in Notes that got a good response. I went back and started editing some other compositions over the last week and wanted to share them with you.

If you haven’t noticed yet, I am drawn to tiny details in flowers and I love isolating them with a very shallow depth of field. It doesn’t leave much room for mistakes but I sort of love the challenge of it and I’m not afraid of soft focus. My favorite is the first image with how each petal layer leads you in. The second image might be the weakest of the three but man do I love that slice of focus on the petal edge but the petal texture might take the attention away from it. The last one I also love as it still focuses on the layers but from a different point of view. I’d love to know your thoughts!

Layers of rose petals, Fine Art Floral Photography by Brenda Landrum

From the Garden

Since I shared last week the gear I use, I have been doing a little comparison between my two cameras. I had done a little complaining about the Fuji so I made myself start working on figuring out how to adjust. I’m still working on that but I took them both out to my garden one evening to do a little comparison. I was a bit surprised that I was favoring the Fuji and even more so when I edited the images. They hardly needed any work to them, just some exposure adjustments and the bee shot I did some burning to the background. The Canon shots I did more work to because they are naturally more dull in RAW but was interesting how different the greens and pinks in the spirea bush were. It’s always fun to just play sometimes and maybe find out that what you thought was one thing yesterday might be something more useful today.