With a Touch of Red
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ____Buddha
Everglades Swamp Lily in Perspective
These Swamp Lilies happily growing in the Florida Everglades are about the size of the palm of my hand but appear much larger. My camera's wide angle lens was just…
Still Life – Roses
Jake, with his Sunday Post: Arrangement, inspired me to do something I have been putting off for several months, create and photograph a still life image of a dried arrangement…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nature’s Renewal
"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal…
Travel Theme: Foliage – Bamboo on Fuchsia
I was stopped dead in my tracks recently by this image at a nearby botanical garden. A clump of bamboo unhappily growing in a bed in front of a fuchsia wall caught my attention.…
Travel Theme: White – Cattleya Orchid
The delicate, exotic orchid is the most highly coveted flowering plant. It is said to represent strength, love, beauty, and luxury. The cattleya orchid is the queen of orchids, the corsage…
Hibiscus Reflection – Sunday Post
Again, I have resorted to Photoshop trickery to create the illusion of a red hibiscus bloom and its rippled reflection for this week's Sunday Post: Reflection challenge. The original photograph is of…
Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Merge
A little Photoshop trickery helps me merge shapes and colors into a fluid design for my contribution to this weeks Photo Challenge. I started with a single orchid bloom photo you see…
Travel Theme ~ Flowers
I did not have to travel far for this week's Travel Theme, Flowers. In fact, no further than my dooryard garden where I nurture a variety of tropical and subtropical flowering plant…