This past spring I had a chance to stop at the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. This is my favorite iris garden. If I manage to time my visit correctly, I have my choice of hundreds of bearded irises to photograph. Unfortunately, I was a little early this year. I thought I’d be there for peak bloom, but alas Mother Nature had other plans. So I didn’t have as many types of irises to photograph as I had hoped. But even so, I found some beautiful flowers to photograph. I’ll be sharing some of my photos from the Presby Memorial Iris Gardens today, and some in another post soon.
Sometimes when I’m in the studio photographing I created abstract photos. Other times I want to just show the beauty of a flower. So here are a pair of pink and yellow tulips photographing against a dark black background.
Parrot Tullips are one of my favorite types of tulips. And these Weber’s Parrot Tulips are among my favorite parrot tulips. They have such wonderful patterns in the petals in shades of pink, white, red and green. I couldn’t resist photographing them.
I’m becoming more and more fascinated with abstract close up photographs of flowers. I was fascinated by the gentle curve of the little pink petal that arced over the center of the tulip so I created this photo to emphasize the curve
In mid-February I spent a day at Longwood Gardens and was thrilled to see that the crocuses were blooming in the lawn near the DuPont house. I love seeing the first crocuses of the spring – for me it means winter is finally ending and that I’ll have more wonderful flowers to photograph in the near future.
I thought I’d share some of my crocus photos with you today.
I love photographing irises. They are one of my favorite spring flowers. From the little dwarf irises that bloom in March to the Siberian and Bearded irises blooming in April & May and ending with the Water Irises blooming in June, I can photograph irises for months here in the Washington DC area. I’ve created a new video for you with some of my recent iris photos. The photos are accompanied by an arrangement for flute and harp based on Bizet’s L’arlesienne.
I hope you enjoy seeing my new video
If you like photographing irises as much as I do, join me for my Gardens of Philadlephia workshop from May 15-20. We’ll be visiting several gardens that should have irises in bloom and ready to photograph.
If you have any questions about this workshop, just drop me a note and we’ll find time to talk.
