Girls love them, Wordsworth wrote poems about them, they make supremely good pictures...there is something about flowers, I guess. But clicking them can be a bit of a problem, as any person who has tried to take a picture of these nature's bloomers will tell you. Getting too close can blur up matters and getting too far means getting all sorts of unnecessary additions in the picture, including grass, roads, bypassers, et al.
Of course, there IS a way to tackle this. One that is appropriately indicated by a flower-like (well, to mine camera-uneducated eyes, it did seem flower-like) icon on your camera - the Macro mode.
No, I do not quite know how the darned thing works, but its specialty is that it lets you get real close to a subject and still take very clear and sharp pictures. All of which makes it inch-perfect for those times when you want to click flowers, raindrops on leaves, ladybirds sauntering on plants and the like. In fact, here is a rule of thumb - if what you are trying to capture is very small, just switch the camera to macro mode, get within a some inches of it and have a go. With flowers, I would recommend a foot or more. Worked fine with the Canon EOS 600D.
I had a stab at it, mainly with raindrops (well, I like them!!) and the results are there for ye to see.
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