Posted in Creatures, Flowers and Trees, Places on Jun 1st, 2008 6 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. I found a clump of yellow daisies in the herb garden and there were a few bees working them. This is another bee that seems to be more successful in collecting pollen, or, is really well hung, or both.
Posted in Creatures, Flowers and Trees, Places on May 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. I found a clump of yellow daisies in the herb garden and there were a few bees working them. This bee stomped around on the stamen of this flower, hoping to pick up some stamen.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 30th, 2008 4 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. Can you imagine falling into this molten pit, struggling to get out only to find that you can’t get a grip on these pollen encrusted stamen. What a way to go.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. This fern has an interesting embossment on it that reminds me of the stitching on a pair of jeans. I wonder what purpose the embossment serves on the leaf structurally. Could it be like the "creases" in the sheet metal of car bodies, put in to give those large expanses [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. The variety of plants in the Huntington herb garden is mind boggling. One has to look closely as they’re growing on top of one another but an hour there will turn up some wild stuff, like this spiny meteorite.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on May 28th, 2008 6 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Gardens. Out of all of the places to photograph at this photographer’s paradise, two places should not be missed: the herb garden where this was taken and the desert garden with all the cacti and succulents.
While most of the tourists are off photographing roses you can have both of of these [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on May 12th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My wife brings all the outside potted plants into our basement for the winter and now, just before she puts them out for the summer, there are lots of flowering plants leaning toward the big window in the basement. They’re hungry for light. Given that it’s breezy outside and difficult to take pictures [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on May 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. The cornfield across the road, which hasn’t been plowed under yet, is covered with dandelions. For a weed they’re pretty interesting.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Landscape, Places on Apr 23rd, 2008 7 Comments »
East Litchfield, Connecticut. For each of the twenty years I’ve lived in this area I’ve been going to see the daffodils on a farm in East Litchfield. There are acres of them between rock walls in various fields. Flowers like this on this scale is not something you see every day. Now that I’ve been [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Apr 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. There’s something totemic about the core of a poppy and these shapes definitely interest me. There were numerous variations on the stripes on these poppies but the purple stripes struck me as most interesting.
Another view of this image.
Posted in Flowers and Trees on Feb 8th, 2008 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I helped a friend with her Macintosh and she gave us a beautiful narcissus. It was a nice trade (the flower was really a gift): the support and information I gave her should last for a long time and this wonderful flower should do the same. We have to water the flower to [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Photographers on Jan 26th, 2008 No Comments »
jessi has one of the finest examples of painterly bokeh I’ve seen in an image, ever. This is outstanding.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Places on Nov 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. I found it hard to take pictures Inside the labyrinth that is Robert Irwin’s Central Garden at The Getty Center. We had just seen the Edward Weston show there and all I wanted to do was get home and shoot green peppers on my kitchen table. Instead, I shot this plant hoping [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees on Oct 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Okay, I couldn’t resist the play on words (Annie Oakley). My wife is now getting with the program and bringing me leaves she’d like to see photographed. I initially complained that this oak leaf wasn’t big enough in any one place to shoot without showing the outer edges, but then I thought about [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. It’s raining hard today and I have errands in town. While running to the truck I noticed a birch leaf, bottom side up with water droplets on it on the driveway. On a nice day, I might feel the urge to set up the tripod right over this leaf and attempt a water [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees, Our Place on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut.There are many small volunteer sumac plants around our place and one really can’t see them blended in with the other foliage in the summer but in fall, they turn brilliant red. I’m allergic to poison sumac; nice that these plants are not only beautiful but also “hypoallergenic.”
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees on Oct 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our ferns have been drying out and turning for a while now but today they seem to be at just the right state of translucency for the backlight of the sun to make them glow.
Note: I rented a Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L Macro to test out. I’m liking it quite a lot [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees on Oct 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our oak trees haven’t turned yet but a few oak leaves are falling. When I look at them on the ground they are the most boring brown color but when I hold one up to the light an intricate inner world becomes illuminated. Here you can see the movement of the drying and [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees, Objects on Oct 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. We have many types of birch trees here: classic white birch, gray birch and a few black birch trees. This leaf looked rather ordinary until I held it up to the light and looked through it, then it’s complexity became readily apparent.
Another view of the same image.
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees, Objects on Oct 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. This leaf came from a large eastern cottonwood tree that fell out of the woods south of our garden and got caught in the power lines. It was large enough so it deflected the lines a good 10 feet and I was sure we’d have a disaster with it falling on a passing [...]
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