"Never stop photographing. It is very likely that your best photograph has not yet been captured">
"You can observe a lot by just watching".
- Yogi Berra
It is definitely not too dark Sandi and it one lovely photography with stunning colours and lovely dappled sunlight and shadows plus spot on composition too.
My thanks to all who leave comments for my work and to those of you who like one enough to make it a favourite. To touch just one person that way makes each image worthwhile. . . . . . . . . .. . . . "The question is not what you look at, but what you see" ~ Marcel Proust
A garden as a still life. I noticed that you mentioned you had used the "P" mode on your Canon. I have not used that one before (right or wrong, I am normally on "m"}. I have no idea where my Canon book is so I might google to see what the "p" gives or takes away. Which mode do you normally use now?