Posted in Canon Powershot S90, Flowers, Hiking, Places on Jun 15th, 2010 4 Comments »
Bear Mountain, Connecticut. The mountain laurel was in full bloom last week so we hiked up Bear Mountain by way of Paradise Lane where we knew there was a load of it. I’m hoping the rain we just had hasn’t knocked the buds off, I’d love to return just to walk through it all again.
Posted in Flowers, Photographers on May 13th, 2010 1 Comment »
My flickr contact Joka has posted a great flower shot with amazing bokeh.
Posted in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places, Slide Show on Mar 27th, 2010 4 Comments »
Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California. It was windy and I couldn’t get close enough to use my tripod and the Huntington didn’t have a lot in bloom except these poppies (excuses, excuses), so, I shot a lot of poppies. This first one’s dedicated to Georgia O’Keefe (grin). These were all taken with a Canon EOS 5D [...]
Posted in Canon PowerShot G11, Flowers, Hiking on Mar 18th, 2010 1 Comment »
Washington, Connecticut. At the start of a short winter hike up to the Pinnacle Dave and I got distracted by Queen Anne’s lace with snow cones on them. Note: I’m behind in my uploading, this was taken January 31st of this year. The flip out LCD on the G11 meant that Dave probably didn’t have [...]
Posted in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers on Feb 24th, 2010 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My friend Zarinna had a bowl full of these flowers floating in water. What a great idea and the water made for a great "armature" to hold the flowers upright for shooting. Hellebore on wikipedia.
Posted in Flowers, Our Place on Nov 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We’re feeling rather wiped out today from a big Thanksgiving dinner, guests, and the inevitable cleanup, and it’s gloomy out so out comes the tripod and macro lens for a different perspective on the world. This flower is not doing well but has some nice little blooms on it.
Posted in Flowers, Slide Show on Sep 24th, 2009 4 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places, Slide Show on Aug 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places on Aug 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. After our globe thistle session Gary and I drove down the road to Zarinna’s house to photograph her unusual coneflowers. Many of them were going by and their petals were shrinking but that made them all the more interesting.
Posted in Flowers, Places, Slide Show on Aug 13th, 2009 4 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it. [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places on Aug 1st, 2009 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. I love pods and unopened flowers of all kinds; they’re totemic. This pod was sticking out into space with a nice bed of color behind it. Perfect spot to make impressionistic (Monet) bokeh sauce with a fast lens.
Posted in Flowers, Places on May 26th, 2009 5 Comments »
The Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California. While most of the tourists were in the magnificent rose garden, my mother and I snuck into the small and out of the way herb garden where there were some nice poppies. Some of them looked suspiciously like opium and were oozing some kind of sap. No, I didn’t test [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places on Apr 4th, 2009 5 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. I was hoping for lots of things to be in bloom but it was slim pickings today. There was a nice bed of these daisies and I set up the tripod low and sat there on the grass waiting for the breeze to die down. Numerous photographers stopped to see [...]
Posted in Flowers, Landscape, Our Place on Oct 27th, 2008 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This is just a quick test of my 135mm f/2 L lens with my 1.4x extender which makes the resulting combination 189mm with a max aperture of f/2.8. I’m considering the Canon 200mm f/2.8 L lens and wanted to see if what I have already with this combo might do the job. Alex [...]
Posted in Flowers, Places on Sep 30th, 2008 6 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. There are many things in bloom Inside the labyrinth that is Robert Irwin’s Central Garden at The Getty Center. I shot this plant hoping that the colorful blur behind it might be as or more interesting than the plant. For those of you who are interested in such things, note that this [...]
Posted in Flowers, Ideas on Aug 14th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I’ve been driving by this group of globe thistle flowers in front of the author Francine du Plessix Gray’s house for the past week and finally stopped to shoot them. The group of them looked like it might lend itself to long lens impressionism. Maybe us long lens shallow depth of field painters [...]
Posted in Flowers on Aug 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I found a kaleidoscopic clump of coneflowers in all stages of development, baby to just about gone by and it was hard to know how to set the aperture to make a pleasing background with such coneflower clutter.
Posted in Flowers on Aug 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I just can’t resist coneflowers (echinacea), they’re so dramatic, colorful, photogenic. I wonder what makes a flower photogenic, or, better, I wonder if the same things that attract us to flowers also attract bees and other insects? If I were a bee, I’d be all over these stamen.
Posted in Flowers, Places on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. I guess high summer is not the best time to photograph the herb garden at the Huntington Library and Garden. Most of my favorite plants had gone by or were wilted in the heat. Of course, I have an eye for flowers in decay and tried to make the most out of it [...]
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers on Jul 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Danbury, Connecticut. I was down at Danbury Airport taking pictures of the initial setup of the biggest fireworks show in Connecticut. I’ll be shooting the rest of the set up and the show tomorrow all day and into the night. Took a break from watching the construction of the rocket firing tubes to shoot some [...]
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