I’m fascinated by many petalled roses so I’m indulging myself by sharing these square crops of their floral hearts for HeyJude’s February Challenge: Monochrome.
I think the first one is my favourite – the colours are so dreamy. Jude quotes the line ‘Earth laughs in flowers’ which surely makes each unfurling petal a giggle… or at least a perceptible relaxing of the lips.
Together they make a cheerful colour palette, but individually, each flower fits the brief:
…black and white or tones of one colour. Look for texture, shape and patterns. The subject matter is entirely up to you, but should be loosely garden related.
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, I hope the roses will bring memories of summer. And if summer’s in full swing where you are, promise me you’ll make your way out into a garden as soon as you can so you can get up close and personal with some kind of flower.
Susan Rushton 
The roses look gorgeous!
Gorgeous photos!
Beautiful varieties and photos. They almost look like peonies, they’re so full of petals. love them!
It can be hard to tell the difference between roses and peonies, especially when you can’t see the leaves.
I’m a bit of a gardener but I haven’t planted any of those old cabbage kinds of roses. They are just stunning
I also love roses and they are very photogenic. Nice collection. (Suzanne)
Gorgeous pictures! I love roses with many petals
Beautiful:)
That’s gorgeous, I love these roses, too and I’m sure they smell nice
Some of them are really fragrant, especially the yellow one (Golden Celebration – an English rose) and the medium pink (La Ville de Bruxelles – a damask).
I can really imagine how wonderful they smell, we have a lot of roses in our garden and I could get “drunk” by smelling them, hehe
Stunning. Thank you for bringing back a bit summer.
Great images – you can feel the texture. I often use rose and flower designs to decorate my home.
I don’t know where textile designers would be were it not for flowers! I love floral dresses too, but you do have to tread a fine line so you don’t look like a walking flower border.
I love roses and they are such stunning subjects to photograph. You did an amazing job with these gorgeous beauties Susan. Thanks for sharing. 😀 ♥
They’re definitely one of my favourite subjects too.
Lovely photographs. Once summer is here you have inspired me to go out and take photos like these. They look stunning when placed together like this.
When the colour of roses has a fresh, innocent character it’s really easy to mix and match them.
So lovely. I love flowers of many petals as well. Love this post for mono. Perfection.
I tried converting them to black and white, but they really work best in colour, so then I cropped in tight to get rid of other colours such as leaves, background etc.
It works really well, and it’s lovely to see what colour they really are. Beautiful.