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Longwood Gardens

by hankinslawrenceimages | Apr 5, 2019 | Pennsylvania, Uncategorized

I’ve had a few questions about some of the gardens we’ll be visiting during my Photographing the Gardens of Philadelphia workshop in May so I thought I’d share a bit about some of them.

Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania is one of the premier botanical gardens in the United States. Located on the former estate of Pierre S. du Pont, Longwood Gardens opened to the public after du Pont’s death in 1954. Currently the estate covers over 1076 acres – with woods, meadows, formal gardens, trial gardens and a four-acre conservatory. There is always something wonderful to photo at Longwood Gardens. If we’re lucky, the tulips will still be on display when we visit during the workshop

Here are a few of the photos I’ve taken at Longwood in May.

Fantasy Tulips

Trillium Grandiflorum

El Nino Tulips

Champagne Poppies

Antoinette Tulips

Bleeding Hearts

Angelique Tulips

McKenna Group Columbine

Longwood Gardens is just one of the gardens we’ll visit during my Photographing the Gardens of Philadelphia Workshop in May. For more information about the workshop, visit https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/photographing-the-gardens-of-philadelphia-may-2019/

I’d love to have you join me for a week of photographing some of the beautiful gardens in the Philadelphia area.

Poppy Anemones

by hankinslawrenceimages | Apr 3, 2019 | Ranunculaceae Family

I always love photographing poppy anemones. Whether I’m photographing them at a local garden or in my studio, I always find so many different ways to photograph them. Here are a few poppy anemone photos I’ve edited recently.

Lavender Poppy Anemones

Lavender Poppy Anemone © 2017 Patty Hankins

Bright Pink Poppy Anemone

Pink & White Poppy Anemones

Pink & White Poppy Aneomones © 2019 Patty Hankins

Weeping Graveyard Angel Metarie Cemetery New Orleans Palladium Toned Kallitype – New Photo

by hankinslawrenceimages | Apr 1, 2019 | Cemeteries, Kallitypes, Louisiana, New Photos

Weeping Graveyard Angel Metarie Cemetery New Orleans Palladium Toned Kallitype © 2019 Patty Hankins

I’ve recently added a new palladium-toned kallitype – Weeping Graveyard Angel Metarie Cemetery New Orleans Palladium Toned Kallitype – to my website at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/weepinggraveyardangelmetarie/

The beautiful weeping angel in the Chapman H Hyams family tomb in Metarie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana

This photograph is printed using the late 19th-century photographing printing process known as Kallityping. The emulsion is hand-painted onto the paper, exposed with a negative under bright lights, and toned with palladium. Each print from a negative is slightly different – so these are one of a kind images.

The photographs are printed on 8 X 10″ Bergger 100% Cotton Cot 320 paper. They are matted to 11 X 14″ in a white acid-free mat.

These one-of-a-kind kallitypes are available for $ 49.00

What Caught Your Eye?

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 29, 2019 | Photo Tips

One of the questions I get asked occasionally is how do I know how to compose my flower photos?

In some ways, my approach is to use what Ansel Adams referred to as visualization or “the ability to anticipate a finished image before making the exposure.” If I can see the final image before I take it, I can identify what it is about the scene I want to capture. And then I know how to compose my photograph.

Even if I can’t see the final image in my mind, if I can identify what it was about a scene that made me want to take photograph, I find it easier to compose my image. I ask myself why am I stopping here to take a photo? Why here and not over there? Why this flower and not that flower?

In other words – what caught my eye?

Sometimes is can be a single flower

Or a group of similar flowers.

It can be a color

Or a combination of colors

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Red Tiger Flowering Maple © 2019 Patty Hankins

It can be the whole scene

Wildflowers in the Woods © 2019 Patty Hankins

Or it can be the little details

Kournan Kouryou Chrysanthemum © 2019 Patty Hankins

It can be a line

Or it can be something totally unexpected.

As you think about your own photography, what sorts of things catch your eye? And how can you use that information to create better photographs. I’d love to hear in the comments section below

Identifying what caught your eye and how to use that as a tool for composing your photographs is one of the skills we’ll be talking about during my Gardens of Philadelphia workshop from May 5 – May 11. For more information about the workshop, visit https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/photographing-the-gardens-of-philadelphia-may-2019/

A Wonderful Spring Morning at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 27, 2019 | Amaryllidaceae Family, Asparagaceae Family, Iridaceae Family

A couple weeks ago, I spent a few hours photographing at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia. One of things I love about Lewis Ginter is their daffodils – in the spring they have so many beautiful daffodils throughout the gardens. The other great thing about Lewis Ginter is that it is about 100 miles south of Washington DC so spring arrives a couple of weeks earlier there than it does here.

It seems like every year, just as I’m about to go crazy from what feels like a never-ending winter – I start seeing photos of spring flowers taken at Lewis Ginter. And I decide I need to make a quick trip to Richmond.

This year I photographed daffodils, grape hyacinths and dwarf irises on my early spring visit.

Cum Laude Daffodils © 2019 Patty Hankins

Gigantic Star Daffodils © 2019 Patty Hankins

I’m sure I’ll be back photographing at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden again soon. But I wanted to share this wonderful taste of spring with you in case you are in as much need of spring as I am

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