Not long before Christmas last year I found some wonderful red and white peppermint carnations at my local floral wholesaler. They seemed like the perfect flowers to photograph over the holidays. As I did with the other sets of carnations I’ve photographed, I found myself focusing in on small areas of a group of petals to create some abstract images of the carntations.
First – a photo of a single peppermint carnation – so you can see what the flowers I was photographing look like
![Peppermint Carnation © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_4554.jpg)
Peppermint Carnation © 2016 Patty Hankins
And now the closer in abstract photos of the peppermint carnations
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_s6_12i.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_4618.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_s4_7i.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_s1_i12.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_4692.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_4677.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_4634.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_4559.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_s5_15i.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_s3_13i.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_4700.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
![Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins](http://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016_04_Carnation_peppermint_4684.jpg)
Peppermint Carnations © 2016 Patty Hankins
I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing some of my carnation photos. I’m looking forward to taking more photos of carnations and sharing them with you soon.