Colourful Polyanthus

As a rule, I always try to avoid taking photos of flowers when it is bright sunshine because of the harsh shadows that can intermingle within the photo, but with such beautiful contrasting colours, and the help of some very thin material acting as a bit of a diffuser, I felt I could break my rule today,  It worked to a certain degree, but I was not completely satisfied

The other unfortunate thing was that my tripod was in Mrs IU's car and she was out for a couple of hours, so had to make do with it being hand held and me bending over to get closer....not ideal but hey ho.