I feel azalea is a difficult subject for photo shooting.  The flower has three dimensionally big structure, thus if we take azalea's photo closely with macro lens almost everything gets out-focused.  A pistil has little expression in its surface appearance and its color is similar to that of petals.  So it is difficult for a cameraman to express contrast between pistil and petals.  When we take their photos from a distance, other flowers and/or background view come in a picture.  Therefore, good flowers' condition and neat scenery are desired, but flower withers soon after full bloom.  I think a timing of full blown is a little too late to take photos at a distance, there would be some withered flowers.  I have therefore rarely taken azalea's photos till this year.

The 4 photos are taken in Kikko Park in Iwakuni-city, Yamaguchi prefecture where is famous for Kintaikyo-bridge, one of the three Ancient Bridge of Japan.
First photo is a hedge with full blown azaleas.  I took it with a small aperture to get deeper depth of field, but not make it pan-focused.  Slightly out-focused background makes a picture more impressive.
Second photo is a reflection of azaleas on the water surface.  I took it with slow shutter speed to make water surface fantastic.
Third photo is a bee flying above azaleas.  I focused on a bee in the flower, and pressed the shutter button just after the bee leaving from the flower.
The last photo is taken with a macro lens. As I explained, the pistil has similar color to that of petals and almost all object in the picture are out-focused. I took care of layout of patterns on the petals, though they are out focused.
 

Center of orange poppy flower looks like the core of burning sun, doesn't it?

Center of white poppy looks like a ring nebula.  M57 is a famous ring nebula in the Lyre.

Now she is going to debut by taking the cover off.

Alyssum is a small flower blooming in a group in a garden.

Peony, a big handsome flower blooming lonely.  I feel some dignity for the flower.  Frei aber Einsam is German means Free but Lonely, a motto of a famous violinist in 19th century.

Petals of peony are half-transparent and very much delicate. 

The white iris blooming among the violet irises, had an elegance of princess.

We can easily find out this pale violet flower in spring field, but I don't know the name of this flower because it's not available in my flower encyclopedia.  When I watched the flower closely, I felt some gracefulness of it.  Red color in the background is dwarf azalea.

It's a scene of a dogwood flower petal falling to the ground.  Do you feel some wonderful atmosphere in a picture, something like you saw in a dream?

One of typical Japanese scenes in late spring with white wisterias.

This flower is a kind of a lily.  Looks like a kind of tropical flower mainly due to it's flamboyant color, but actually it's Japanese spring flower blooming relatively in not a hot environment.

This photo is in a typical style to take downs of dandelion, laying a flower out in the back.