Professor Einstein Daffodils
Daffodils!!!! Those wonderful cheery flowers that say SPRING IS HERE!!!!! The daffodils finally bloomed in the DC area - looking at my photo archive it looks like the daffodils only bloomed a couple of weeks later than usual - but this year - it seemed like they were...
Glory of the Snow – Chionodoxa
One of the signs of spring in the DC area is when the Glory of the Snow blooms. The delicate blue blossoms add a wonderful splash of color to the often brown spring landscape. Native to the eastern Mediterranean, these wonderful little flowers are members of the...
New Photo: Prickly Poppies in the Wind
I’ve recently added a new photo – Prickly Poppies in the Wind – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website. This photo is the first photo I've ever offered for sale that is a composite photo. What you are looking at is actually a combination of ten photographs of the...
Textures in the Trees – Getting Ideas from Pinterest
On my recent trip to Georgia and South Carolina I did a lot of photography that was outside my usual comfort zone. Instead of photographing flowers and a few landscapes - I photographed a wide variety of subjects. I looked to my boards on Pinterest for inspiration for...
In the Studio: Siberian Irises
This is a set of photos I took in my studio of some Siberian Irises back in January. It was the first time I'd tried photographing the flowers against a black background - which meant it took a while to get the lighting adjusted so the photos looked the way I wanted...
New Photo: Peach Ranunculus
I’ve recently added a new photo – Peach Ranunculus – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website. I've always loved photographing Ranuculus blossoms. They are so delicate and have so many wonderful layers of petals that I can lost in the details of the blossoms....
Photographing Flowers (Without Swearing at Your Camera!) – July 10-12, 2015
Have you ever stood breathless in front of a flower that you wanted to remember forever? I imagine you were lucky to have your camera with you, so you go through this series of steps: point, focus and click. Check the photo on the back of the camera. No, that’s not...
The Garden Party: A Secret Garden at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
I'm really excited to be a part of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's The Garden Party: A Secret Garden event on April 24. The fundraiser supports the Children's Garden at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and is inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's book....
New Photo: Yolaporte Chrysanthemums
I’ve recently added a new photo – Yolaporte Chrysanthemums – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website. My new Yolaport Chrysanthemums photo is actually a re-edit and re-crop of a photo I took a few years ago. I'd photographed this group of spoon mums with an...
Oak Alley at Wormsloe Historic Site
Have you seen photos of those amazing southern roads with an arch of fern covered trees and spanish moss over them? I've been seeing photos like that for years and finally had a chance to photograph an Oak Alley on my recent trip to Georgia. One of my first stops on...
Japanese Camellias – camellia japonica
A few months ago during a visit to Longwood Gardens I photographed several varieties of Japanese Camellias. Japanese Camellias (camellia japonica) are winter-blooming members of the Theaceae family. Originally native to China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan, these wonderful...
New Photo: Zodiac Gerbera Daisy
I’ve recently added a new photo – Zodiac Gerbera Daisy – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website. My Zodiac Gerbera Daisy photo is a companion photo to my Fusion Gerbera Daisy photo. Both are close-up studio photographs of wonderful brightly colored...