Posted in Art and Design, Flowers, Photographers, Places on Apr 29th, 2012 2 Comments »
My long time flickr contact karaku* has posted a wonderful image of daisies from below in Tokyo, Japan. This kind of image is unusual for her, she’s mostly into patterns and design.
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on Apr 22nd, 2012 No Comments »
My flickr contact fingerprinz has posted a great monochrome cherry blossom image shot with a Leica film camera and scanned. The bokeh and noise in the image are spectacular.
Posted in Canon PowerShot S100, Flowers, Photographers, Places on Apr 11th, 2012 2 Comments »
Flickr member Liping Yang is getting some amazing images out of his Canon Powershot S100 camera. He’s an excellent photographer and he’s making great use of this and other small point and shoot camera models.
Posted in Flowers, My mother, Places on Feb 29th, 2012 3 Comments »
Huntington Library and Gardens, Pasadena, California. Very little was in bloom today so we wheeled down a steep hill to the Desert Garden and had a showdown with a huge Mexican Polaskia Chende cactus. The plants in this garden are so other-worldly it would be fun to have the evolutionary back-story on each and every [...]
Posted in Flowers, Time Lapse, Video on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Life of flowers from VOROBYOFF PRODUCTION on Vimeo. Excellent flower time lapse work by Vorobyoff Production. I’m not crazy about photographing roses but they come off quite well in this piece. Zoom full screen so you can see the details. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places on Oct 21st, 2011 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. The last few times we’ve been to the Getty Center the Robert Irwin garden has been closed for renovation. My mother enjoys wheeling through it; it’s tight but that’s good for her since she can’t see well and the tightness gets her closer to the flowers. I can’t remember what this one [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot S95, Flowers on Sep 13th, 2011 2 Comments »
Behind Mt. Everett, Massachusetts. Dave was out hunting wild orchids in a meadow he knows they grow in. This is the flower he’s hunting with him shooting another one behind. Walking through the meadow they all looked like weeds to me until he pointed them out. This one’s called “lady’s tresses” or something like that. [...]
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on Jul 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
My longtime flickr contact rosemary has done it again. Beautiful subject isolation through shallow depth of field and wonderful lighting. The bokeh on the flower in the background looks like a painting.
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Hiking, Ideas, Photo Gear, Places on Jul 2nd, 2011 9 Comments »
Mt. Everett, Massachusetts. I took my wife Anne on a walk around Guilder Pond on the shoulder of Mt. Everett before the mountain laurel went by. I took my Canon 5D and a few lenses because the walk was short. Glad I did, the flowers were in perfect bloom and the light was great. The [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking, Places on Jun 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
Northwest Connecticut. Hiking on the Paradise Lane trail on the east side of Bear Mountain the mountain laurel is thick and prime right now.
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking, Reflections on Jun 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Schaghticoke ridge, Kent, Connecticut. Dave and I found a new beaver pond on a hike between Rt. 341 and Bull’s Bridge on the Appalachian trail and as we walked down the edge of it I noticed some interesting reflections. The mountain laurel are in bloom along the Appalachian trail in Connecticut. Good time to be [...]
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on Jun 14th, 2011 4 Comments »
My long time flickr contact rosemary* has another great shallow depth of field macro hypericum image up that’s breathtaking. Her Hypericum set is fun to browse.
Posted in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places on May 27th, 2011 7 Comments »
Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California. The first flower shot I’ve done in a long time. I love flowers and this one had a marker but stupid me, I forgot to shoot it for reference. So, it’s a milk splash flower until I hear otherwise (because it looks like spilled milk frozen in a photograph to me).
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking, Ice, Trees on Mar 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Bear Mountain, Connecticut. Hiking around the back side of Bear Mountain we encountered more mountain laurels coated with ice. The hike was both wonderful and terrible: under two feet of snow was running water from rain and melt off and every now and than we’d break through the crust and get soaked in the “stream” [...]
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on Jan 25th, 2011 2 Comments »
My flickr contact joka2000 posted a nice flower image filled with color, shape, and bokeh. Just what’s needed on this snowy (yet again) morning here in the frigid Northeast US.
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on Jan 9th, 2011 No Comments »
My long time flickr contact Jun has posted a dreamy flower shot. I love these watercolor-like images and Jun is a master of flower “bokeh.”
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places on Sep 18th, 2010 3 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. The Getty Museum Central Garden has some nice flowers in bloom now. My mother can’t see much anymore but I almost always take her through the labyrinth. I think she can still see it in her mind’s eye and that’s enough.
Posted in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places on Jul 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California. Not much in bloom except roses during this visit to the gardens. I’ve never been crazy about rose flowers as photographic subjects but their buds are nice and of course, varicolored rose bokeh works.
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places on Jun 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Los Angeles, California. Each time we go to The Getty Center I look down into the garden from above to see what’s in bloom and if it will be worthwhile wheeling my 95 year old mother down there for a look. This past trip we took a spin through the garden because the poppies were [...]
Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking on Jun 18th, 2010 No Comments »
We hiked from Salisbury, Connecticut up over Lion’s Head and over to Bear Mountain and back (about 11 miles round trip) and this fern was one of many varieties on the trail. This is a great hike if you’re ever in the area, loaded with lots of great trees, mountain laurel (in season), ferns and [...]
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