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My wife loves roses. We have tried to grow rose bushes at our house on multiple occasions. We have not been successful. We look for beautiful plants. Then we dig a hole in the ground and plant them. WE had one bush that was clinging to life for a few years. Each year it would grow one small new branch and get a tiny flower. Then that one finally fully died. I… Read More
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Queen Anne’s Lace is an interesting flower from just about any angle you chose to photograph it. From the distance Queen Anne’s Lace looks like a large white flower. Up close it looks quite different. When you look closely the Queen Anne’s Lace is actually comprised of many tiny little flowers. I couldn’t even begin to guess how many tiny flowers compose each larger flower head. The wild growing flowers make for… Read More
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Brightly colored flower blossom. Close up. It almost looks like a star to me. The center of the flower blossom. Color radiating out from there. The color is most intense in the center. As the streaks of color emanate farther from the center they lose their intensity. The same way the light from a star does. Photo details: Nikon D300. Nikon 60mm f/2.8. Focal length 60mm. ISO 400. 1/2000 sec. f/3.8. Thank… Read More
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I don’t know if the type of flower that is the subject of this photograph is evident in this image. And maybe that is exactly the point. Getting a nice close up look at a Peony flower blossom dissolves the type of flower we are looking at. It renders it into petals and shapers and textures. Perhaps completely unidentifiable if you are not an expert. Enjoy the image for the beauty, the… Read More
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Often in my flower photography I focus on detail. More likely one specific detail. This image is different. I focused on one specific element. But that element almost completely erases detail. The focus in this image is the very tip of the closest flower petal. At a shallow depth of field this puts everything else out of focus. This image is more a study of shape and color than anything else. Photo… Read More
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The New England Aster is one of my favorite wildflowers. I like them because they appear in late summer and into the fall. The New England Aster petals folded up like this give the flowers a different type of look. Normally the petals are extended out to the sides from the yellow center. Focusing on the center with the petals protruding forward creates more depth to the image. Photo details: Nikon D500…. Read More
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I have photographed Mums in different ways. My preference is to stick with the style I enjoy most. That means close up photography trying to isolate as few individual flower blossoms as possible. This can be a challenge as Mums grow in very full bunches of flower blossoms. That is probably what most people find so beautiful. The fullness of the huge cluster of flowers. So I am trying to portray the… Read More
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I love Milkweed. They are critical components in our environment to support wildlife. One thing I like about Milkweed is that I feel like I can create images of those flowers that are different than the way most people see them, Milkweed flowers grow atop tall stalks. The flowers themselves grow in large clusters of smaller individual blossoms. I don’t know if many people stop to take a close up look at… Read More
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Lilies are beautiful flowers, but I struggle with them as photographic subjects. A flower on a lily takes up a lot of space. Their flowers are large and expansive in every way. The flower of a lily spreads out wide from side to side and from top to bottom. They even stretch forth from front to back. I really like to shoot flowers close up and using a shallow depth of field…. Read More
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As I have explored flowers through my photography I have learned there are many different varieties of Hydrangea. I became so enamored with the Hydrangea flowers that I wanted to have one I could see and photograph regularly. I ordered a Hydrangea bush from the Arbor Day Foundation. Then I planted that small sapling bush along the side of my house. The tiny Hydrangea plant has grown rapidly. It is now one… Read More
