Join Me in New Orleans
Here’s the news I’ve been wanting to share with you all summer as I worked out all the details. I will be leading my first photo tour to New Orleans from February 18 - 23 - and I would love to have you join me! When you think about New Orleans, you think about Mardi...
Summer Roses
I'm not sure why, but I haven't been photographing as many roses as I usually do. As I looked back on some of my recent photos, I realized I had enough for a blog post, but that was about it. So here are a dozen roses that I photographed this summer. ...
Picasso Callas – In the Studio
Earlier this year I photographed a set of Picasso Callas in my studio. These callas had purple petals with white around the edges. Most of the photos I took ended up being abstracts. ...
Center of a Pink & White Parrot Tulip – New Photo
I've recently added a new photo - Center of a Pink & White Parrot Tulip - to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website When I saw these pink & white parrot tulips I knew I had to photograph them. I just loved all the swirls of shades of pink and white in the...
Three Things to Check When Reviewing Your Photos
One of the things I love about photographing with a digital camera is the instant feedback! By taking a quick (or not so quick) look at my photo on the back of my camera, I know immediately if I captured the image I wanted, or if I need to try again. No more of the...
Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, CT
One of the sites I visited last summer on my trip to Connecticut was the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford. Like many other rural cemeteries, Cedar Hill is full of wonderful late nineteenth-century statuary. I'm finding myself more and more fascinated with the old...
Pink & Purple Sweet Peas – In the Studio
So I'm still working on editing photos I've taken in the studio in the past couple of years. I found a bunch of photos of Sweet Peas that I had taken sometime last year. Some were taken as individual images, others as sets of images for stacking in Helicon Focus. With...
Pearl Hibiscus – New Photo
I’ve recently added a new photo - Pearl Hibiscus – to the shop on my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website. I loved seeing this beautiful white with pink highlights Pearl Hibiscus on a visit to a local garden. It was such a bright cheery flower to see on the cold...
End of Summer Sale – Save 25% on My Landscape Photographs
Two of my photos, Newfound Gap and Under the Live Oaks will be on display this month as part of the Destination: Vacation - The Travel Show at the Montgomery County Camera Club Gallery at Artists & Makers Studios 2 in Rockville, Maryland. The Opening Reception for...
Irises at Presby Memorial Iris Gardens II
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...
Rose Carousel at Butchart Gardens II
One of the wonderful surprises on my recent trip to Canada was discovering the Rose Carousel at Butchart Gardens. Several friends had assured me I would love Butchart Gardens, all telling me how wonderful the flowers were. What none of them bothered to tell me was...
Center of a Flaming Parrot Tulip – New Photo
I’ve recently added a new photo – Center of a Flaming Parrot Tulip – to the shop on my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website. One of the things I’ve discovered I love about photographing flowers in the my studio is that I can create close-up images of just parts of the...