White Lotus © 2015 Patty Hankins

I’ve recently added a new photo – White Lotus – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website.

I love seeing the lotus blossoms in the summer. At Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens here in the DC area, there are more than 20 ponds of lotus blossoms that bloom each summer.  All of them are the wonderful pink lotuses that most of us are familiar with. So you can imagine how happy I was to see this amazing white lotus blooming at a botanical garden. In some ways it seems even more spectacular than the pink ones since the soft white petals curl around the yellow center in ways that the pink ones don’t. I loved photographing this one – and when I viewed it from above – I knew that that was the image I wanted to capture and be able to share with all of you.

White Lotus is available as a matted print on my website.