flower – Page 8

I’m looking up at these blossoms but what I like about this image is, it almost looks like I’m shooting down at, say, lotus blossoms in a pond – a little bit of trompe l’oeil. It was glorious to finally enjoy a day of nice Spring weather.

Turtles at the Pool

Flowered Warning

A Flower Grows in Brooklyn

A couple more floral still lifes from our lesson on depth of field with the Josephine Herrick Project class.

Red

We took our Josephine Herrick Project NY Brain Injury group out to the Brooklyn Promenade for a lesson on depth of field and aperture and I came away with this one.

Hydrangea

More Urban Tulips

Curbside

ceci n’est pas un tulipe

Still trying hard (and unsuccessfully) not to take pictures of the beautiful tulips everywhere.

Against the World

This Is Not a Tulip

So, I lied. Another one of the tulip shots I promised myself I wouldn’t take any more of.

Spring is Late

Window Still Life

Flower Still Lifes

December (2003) saw me on my first business trip to Australia. I had a lot of fun taking obligatory shots of the Sydney Opera and the harbor bridge and just walking the streets. I got a lot of very colorful shots of unfamiliar flowers in the Conservatory Gardens, which appear to have been helped along by some injudicious use of the contrast and saturation sliders, their history lost to my early Photoshop zeal.