West 92nd Street 
New York
Tag: flower
Arrangement
I added a Litra on the inverted blue glass from 2 posts ago to illuminate through the leaves and deal with the backlighting from the window.
Botanical
Not too many good shots this past weekend, so it’s back to the archives of December 2003 we go: Australian summer, New York winter.
A few more flowers from the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Australia that I missed on my last pass.
Click any image to see them all enlarged (on laptop or PC – doesn’t seem to work on tablet or phone).
Sydney Botanical Gardens
In December of 2003 I took a business trip to Sydney, Australia for a couple of weeks. What a city! I think I could live there quite happily. Naturally, I brought along the 5 MP Dimage A-1 that I was still shooting jpegs with. Click any picture to see them all bigger.
Autumnal Hydrangea
City Flora
Both images shot fairly close at 200mm (300mm equivalent).
Tulip
Still shooting with the telephoto at 200 mm (300 e) and getting some interesting painterly effects.
Magnolia
What a difference a day makes
Storm blew through here for a day and the flowerbed that looked like the below in a recent post now looks like this
Arc de Tulip
I’ve already posted a picture of this flowerbed on 97th street but, passing it again last weekend, I still wanted to try and capture the scope and profusion. While I’ve captured more of the flowers here, it’s actually diminished the impact of the earlier close-up, an object lesson in composition.
Taking the Narrow View
A lovely Spring scene but it requires focusing narrowly and ignoring all that surrounds it.
Bird’s Eye View
A Bright Spot
More Tulips
Spring Despite All
Even the Tulips are Timid
Hibiscus
I gotta say. Taking pictures of birds and flowers… it’s drivin’ me nuts.
Orchid
There’s a garden full of glass and mixed media sculpture at the back of the Duncan McClellan gallery where I spotted this unavoidable flower, reverse identified by Yandex as an orchid (I wouldn’t know, a severe urbanite adrift).
(These pictures were shot over a week ago – everything’s shut now and we’re complying with attempts to halt the spread of Covid-19 by not going out except for necessities).
Shavian Flowers?
Niagara-on-the-Lake is also the home of the Shaw Festival and in the evening we saw an extremely good production of Howard Barker’s Victory. I was not previously familiar with Barker and read up on him a bit after the play. While, ultimately, I’m not sold on his reported approach to theatre or what I was able to take away from the play, it was certainly an interesting evening of serious drama, well acted, particularly, I thought, by Martha Burns as the widow Bradshaw. In the intermission we sat briefly in a small garden plaza behind the theatre, bordering a meadow, whence this picture.
Stunning Flora
The main street we walked along, laid out for tourists, was lined with stunning flowers.