Lots of Changes

As you’ve probably noticed, there have been lots of changes to this blog over the past few months.

Several months ago, Bill and I realized that our photography was going in two different directions – and that we were both getting frustrated trying to merge our photos into one collection that worked well together on our website and at shows. So we decided it was time for our photographs to go their separate ways. For those of you who know us – don’t worry – our marriage is fine – it’s just our photos that have separated. 🙂

I realized that flowers are what I love to photograph. I’m fascinated by all the colors, shapes, textures and varieties. I’m discovering all the wonderful wildflower and their native environments. This year, I’ve made numerous trips to local botanical gardens and parks, as well as traveling literally up and down the East Coast from Maine to Florida to the Smoky Mountains to photograph the wildflowers. I’ve never been happier in my life than I am these days photographing flowers.

In May, I launched my new website BeautifulFlowerPictures.com and began doing shows with just my flower photographs. All of my photographs are presented as gallery wrapped canvases. They allow you to create an indoor garden that will bloom year round in your home. Some of my photos are also available as notecards. I will be showing my photographs at two more shows this year – the Craftsmen’s Classic Art & Craft Show in Richmond, VA on November 6-8 and the Fairfax Holiday show in Fairfax, VA on November 21-22.

Bill has always been a grand landscape photographer at heart. He loves to show the subject of his photography in the context of its environment. He creates photographs with sweeping expanses of sky and earth to accentuate the beauty of the scene. He prefers to use his large format camera. It allows him to slow down and see more clearly and deeply into the interrelationships of all the elements in the scene.

This past weekend, Bill launched his new blog – Lawrence’s View and introduced his first new photograph Zabriskie Dawn. His new photographs will be presented as limited editions of no more than 100. His work will be be printed on Hahnemuhle Photorag 308 gsm paper. He planning on introducing his photographs on his new blog, as well as sharing his thoughts on photography. You can subscribe to his blog by email or in a reader using his RSS feed.

Bill’s new photographs (and a few of his older ones) will be available at the Fairfax Holiday Show in Fairfax, VA on November 21-22.

Since Bill now his own blog, and I’ve been posting mainly my photography here for the past few months – I renamed this blog this morning to Beautiful Flower Pictures Blog. The change doesn’t affect subscriptions by either email or RSS feed. They should continue to work just as they always have. You can access my blog at the current URL of http://hankinslawrenceimages.wordpress.com/ or through it’s new name of BeautifulFlowerpicturesBlog.com I’ll still be posting my flower photographs, an occasional landscape photo, and my regular Friday links posts.

Bill and I have always appreciated all the enouragement and support we’ve gotten from our readers for our photography. We invite you to come along on our photographic journeys as we share our work through our Beautiful Flowers Pictures and Lawrence’s View blogs.