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Zinnia

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 2, 2021 | Flower Portraits

This is another photograph in my series of flowers photographed as portraits with custom backgrounds designed to highlight what I see as the personality of the flowers. For this zinnia, I wanted to emphasize the soft pinks in the petals and feeling of a heritage flower. The flower reminded me of a woman who loves vintage – clothing, home decor, etc – and is happy to quietly share her love of vintage and not worry about competing with all the women showing off their latest and greatest attire and trends.

Flower from Plantmasters, a local flower farm in Maryland.
Background textures from The French Kiss Collection

Even More Spring Wildflowers

by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 25, 2021 | Uncategorized, Wildflowers

Ok – so I’m giving up on trying to organize posts by type of flower – and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up – and at the rate I’m going – I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated to a specific type of flower.

So – here are some of the wonderful spring wildflowers I’ve photographed over the years

C&O Canal

Spring Beauty - Claytonia Virginica © 2019 Patty Hankins

Cutleaf Toothwort - Cardamine concatenata © 2019 Patty Hankins

Chanticleer Gardens

Longwood Gardens

Mt Cuba Center, Hockessin, Delaware

Blue Phlox - Phlox divaricata © 2019 Patty Hankins

Ivory Flame with Fan

by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 23, 2021 | Models

In February 2020, I attended a workshop created by Marie Otero with figure model Ivory Flame. This image of Ivory Flame with a Fan of Feathers is just one of several incredible images I took at the workshop.

Ivory Flame

by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 18, 2021 | Models

I’ve been very fortunate to work with Ivory Flame – a wonderful figure model – a couple of times. Here are some of my favorite photos from our sessions. As always – photographs created with models are always a collaboration of artists. So Thank You Ivory Flame for all your help in creating these images.

Ivory Flame - Inspired by Berthe Morisot © 2020 Patty Hankins

Kodak Girl Ivory Flame © 2020 Patty Hankins

Ivory Flame with Rose © 2020 Patty Hankins

The Butterfly Collector

by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 16, 2021 | Still Life, Uncategorized

I created this still life with other participants at a workshop with Karen Burns and Marie Otero. We started out with the sewing tools – added what looked like a handmade stuffed rabbit carrying a butterfly net. And then we added the butterflies, and some flowers. Rearranged things more than a few times, to finally create this adorable scene. This was one of the workshops that has inspired me to create still life photographs of my own.

Background textures from The French Kiss Collections.