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Vienna Waltz Chrysanthemum – New Photo

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 25, 2019 | Asteraceae Family, New Photos

I’ve recently added a new photograph – Vienna Waltz Chrysanthemum – to my website at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/mum-vienna-waltz/

Vienna Waltz Chrysanthemum © 2019 Patty Hankins

I love seeing chrysanthemums at the local gardens in the fall. They bring such wonderful splashes of color and texture to what is often becoming a brown landscape. These Vienna Waltz Chrysanthemums, with their purple and white petals and the bright yellow petal tips made me smile when I saw them. I knew I had to photograph them and share their beauty with the world.

This photograph is available matted to 11 X 14 for $ 54 or 16 X 20 for $ 109.

Mt. Cuba Center

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 22, 2019 | Wildflowers

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.

Mt. Cuba Center is a native-plant garden located in Hockessin, Delaware. The center is located on the former estate of Lammont Dupont Copeland and his wife Pamela Cunningham Copeland. The Copelands moved to the area in the 1930s and over the next few decades developed formal gardens on their estate. In the 1960’s, they became interested in ecology and conservation of native plants. Landscape architect Seth Kelsey was hired to add woodland wildflower gardens and other native plant environments. Starting in the 1980’s, the Copelands expanded the scope of the native-plant studies on the estate and began to offer tours of their collection. After the Copelands died, their estate became a public garden. In 2013, the gardens opened to the public for general admission.

Currently, Mt. Cuba Center encompasses over 500 acres of natural lands dedicated to native plants. There are formal gardens, hills, streams, valleys and forests brimming with wildflowers.

These are a few of the spring-time photos I’ve taken at Mt. Cuba Center to give you an idea of what we might see in May.

May Apples

Yellow Trillium

Blue Flag Irises

Yellow Lady’s Slipper

Trillium Discolor

A Peaceful Moment at the Pond

Twisted Trillium

Irises at the Pond

Mt. Cuba Center 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.

If you missed the first two articles about the gardens we’ll be visiting, you can read about Chanticleer Garden at https://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/chanticleer-garden/ and Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens at https://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/shofuso-japanese-house-and-gardens/

A Few Peonies

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 20, 2019 | Paeoniaceae Family

A couple years ago, I photographed several beautiful peony gardens. Here are a few more of the peony photos I took that year that somehow I haven’t shared with you yet

At Chanticleer Gardens outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In the Cutting Garden, Chanticleer Gardens © 2019 Patty Hankins

At Winterthur Gardens near Wilmington, Delaware

Kournan Kouryou Chrysanthemum – New Photo

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 18, 2019 | Asteraceae Family, New Photos

Kournan Kouryou Chrysanthemum © 2019 Patty Hankins

I’ve recently added a new photo – Kournan Kouryou Chrysanthemum – to my website at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/kournankouryouchrysanthemum/

When I saw these incredible chyrsanthemums at a local garden, I knew I had to photograph them. At first, I photographed a single mum. And then a close up of the center. And then a pair of them. As I continued to explore the garden, all of a sudden I found a large group of these spectacular mums planted very close together, so their blossoms pushed up against each other. So rather than seeing a separate flower, I saw continuous waves of motion as my moved from petal to petal, and flower to flower.

This photograph is available matted to 12 X 20 for $ 84 and 16 X 24 for $ 134

An Incredible Week!

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 15, 2019 | News

I just wanted to take a moment to share some of the wonderful things that have happened in early March.

The first big event was the opening reception for my show, The Beauty of Flowers, in the Horticulture Center at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia. Thank you everyone who came to the opening. It was wonderful to see you and have a chance to share my photography with you.

Here are a few photos from the opening reception. Thank you to Jeanine Cummings and Bill Lawrence for taking some photos at the reception.

A few days after the reception, Bill and I headed to Rochester, New York to take a Digital Negative Making workshop at the George Eastman Museum. We had an extra day in Rochester to do some exploring – so of course, I photographed the local cemetery, Mount Hope Cemetery. Here’s one of the graveyard angels I saw that morning.

Graveyard Angel, Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY © 2019 Patty Hankins

That afternoon, we had a chance to meet Jen Perena at Flower City Arts Center in Rochester. I connected with Jen on Instagram after I saw the kallitypes she created as part of her artist residency at the Flower City Arts Center. I’ve been printing my cemetery photographs as kallitypes so I was eager to meet up with someone else using the same late 19th-century photographic printing process. Unlike most kallitypes that are monochromatic images, Jen applies watercolor paints to her kallitypes to create color images. You can learn more about Jen’s work on her website at https://kallitypegirl.com/

Here’s a photo I took of Jen with her unique color kallitypes.

Finally on Wednesday, the workshop began! I’ll admit to be a little nervous about taking the workshop – after all, I’m fine with photoshop so I wasn’t worried about creating the negatives – but it’s been over 25 years since I spent much time in a darkroom – and here I was going to probably the best place in the country to learn historic printing processes!

It turns out, I had nothing to worry about. Our two instructors, Nick Brandreth and Mark Osterman, were fabulous. The first two days of the workshop were the technical part. We learned how to calibrate our process so we could produce dense enough negatives for printing and how to print the negatives using the Salt Printing process first developed by Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830’s.

These are photos of one of my calibration tools in the first wash and of my final digital negatives.

On Friday, we spent the day printing! Not only did we print our photos, we toned them with gold, and then waxed them with beeswax and lavender oil to ensure their longevity.

Here’s my salt print of Kitty Dusty as Frida Kahlo and a quick photo of my two prints with my official George Eastman Museum Workshop darkroom apron!

I had a fabulous time at the workshop. Not only did I learn how to create better digital negatives and how to make salt prints – I got to spend 3 days at the George Eastman Museum! During slow times in the class, the instructors would pull out photographs printed with all sorts of historic processes, or various camera models, including hand-made cameras made from cardboard! We never knew who was going to stop by the workshop to say hello and chat, one of the people who dropped in had been instrumental in developing the emulsion for my favorite Black & White film. And then there was all the wonderful Kodak and photographic history on display. If the door on one of the rooms between our classroom and the ladies room was open – I could see some original Kodak Girl advertising posters from the early 1900’s!

Between the opening reception, meeting Jen and seeing her work, and the workshop – it was an incredible week. And now that I’m home, the weather is finally warming up and I can start photographing flowers outdoors again.

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