by hankinslawrenceimages | Apr 8, 2019 | Liliaceae Family, New Photos
Pink & White Tulip Petals © 2019 Patty Hankins
I’ve recently added a new photography – Pink & White Tulip Petals – to my website at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/pink-white-tulip-petals/
When I saw these beautiful pink and white tulips at the store, I fell in love with their soft colors. As they opened up and I brought them into my studio to photograph, the layers of soft petals were what caught my eye and what I tried to capture in my photograph.
This photograph is available matted to 11 X 14 and 16 X 20
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.
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
Lavender Poppy Anemone © 2017 Patty Hankins
Lavender Poppy Anemone © 2017 Patty Hankins
Bright Pink Poppy Anemone
Bright Pink Poppy Anemone © 2018 Patty Hankins
Bright Pink Poppy Anemone © 2018 Patty Hankins
Pink & White Poppy Anemones
Pink & White Poppy Aneomones © 2019 Patty Hankins
Pink & White Poppy Aneomones © 2019 Patty Hankins
Pink & White Poppy Aneomones © 2019 Patty Hankins
Pink & White Poppy Aneomones © 2019 Patty Hankins
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
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
Pink Peony © 2019 Patty Hankins
Or a group of similar flowers.
Daffodils © 2019 Patty Hankins
It can be a color
Blue Hydrangeas © 2018 Patty Hankins
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
Bleeding Hearts © 2018 Patty Hankins
Or it can be something totally unexpected.
Along the Fence © 2014 Patty Hankins
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/
