Be selective on your focus

There are so many advantages to pulling your camera out of auto focus into manual mode. Photographs, particularly flowers are much more dramatic when everything is not equally focused on.  Be selective in what you focus on, well that could be a great mantra for life too.

Focus on the center of a flower for a dramatic photo which pulls your eye in.

Leave the entire photo a tad blurry for a dream like quality.

Focus on the first bright, bold flower in a row.

Focus on some random points to keep your eye moving around the photograph.

Blur out the background to make a photo less busy.