New Photo: Marmorata Water Lily
I’ve recently added a new photo – Marmorata Water Lily – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website. Water lilies can be such delicate summer blooming flowers. I love seeing all the colors of water lilies are some of the local gardens. Not only do the petals...
Photos from the Road: Smoky Mountain Landscapes
As promised - here are a few more of the photos I edited on the road during my recent trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Between these photos and the ones I posted earlier in the week - I think it's easy to see why the Smokies are my favorite national...
Photos from the Road: Smoky Mountain Wildflowers
I'm back in Bethesda from a fantastic photo trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park - and unfortunately I came down with a case of shingles when I got home - so I haven't had a chance to do any editing of my photos since I got home. So I thought I'd share some...
New Photo: Fusion & Zodiac Gerbera Daisies II
I’ve recently added a new photo – Fusion & Zodiac Gerbera Daisies II – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website. Gerbera Daisies - what can I say - I love them with their big bold shapes and bright colors. For the longest time I was really challenged...
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....