Wildflowers … Grand & Intimate

13Aug20

I’ve enjoyed shooting flowers since the beginning of my photo journey. Living Back East, there were a lot of gardens nearby and I was a member of the renowned Longwood Gardens … an estate outside of Philadelphia, once owned by the DuPonts. I spent many hours photographing on the grounds as well as inside the […]

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Tags: Colorado, columbine, Fireweed, King's Crown, landscape photography, Paintbrush, Queen's Crown, wildflowers

High & Wild!

03Sep19

One of my photo goals this summer was to expand my portfolio to include more wildflower landscapes. I have better experience with flowers close-up, using a 100mm macro lens. It was time to focus more intently on wildflowers in the beautiful Colorado landscape. I’ve written a little about this subject before, explaining how challenging I […]

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Tags: Colorado, photography, prints, San Juan Mountains, scenic, summer, wildflowers

Wildflower Scenes & Lessons Learned

14Aug16

The alpine wildflower meadows here in the San Juans of Colorado make a beautiful photo subject. One would think it would be easy … right? Well that’s what I thought … until I got started. For the most-part my objective was to capture the flowers and scenery together since this union is what I find […]

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Tags: Colorado, columbine, landscape, meadows, mountains, Paintbrush, photography, San Juan Mountains, scenic, tips, wildflowers

Fences & Flowers

16Jul16

Wildflower season is upon us and here is my first post of the summer focusing on this lovely subject. These scenes include fences … often catching my attention they are an attractive and common visual element in the scenery here. Coupled with the wildflowers that offer that ‘something extra’, I felt it was a good […]

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Tags: Colorado, fences, landscape, mountains, nature, photography, San Juan Mountains, scenic, wildflowers

Progression Of A Morning

29Jun13

Last weekend I met some friends before sunrise for a shoot at a nearby spot. We knew the moon would be setting just after sunrise and when we got there it was hiding behind the clouds. It was dark out and I liked the way the bright moon lit up the cedar silhouettes across the […]

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Tags: bog, cedar, landscape, moon, new jersey, orange milkwort, photography, pickerel weed, pine barrens, pinelands, shack, swamp, wildflowers

Flower Power

04Jul12

Flowers are a popular photography subject and understandably so. I know I can’t resist the temptation to shoot them no matter how common. For the most part I like to use a shallow depth of field to create a more abstract composition rather than an image that’s purpose is to record the structure of the […]

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Tags: clematis, columbine, flowers, iris, lupine, macro, photography, pitcher plant, poppy, sabatia, twig rush, violet, wildflowers, yellow trillium

Colorado – Parting Shots

24Jul09

Here are the last of the Colorado photos I will be posting. They were taken at different times during my great vacation in Colorado this July. Scroll down through the next five posts to see all of the images I have chosen to display and read about some of the photographic highlights. (To get back […]

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Tags: Bicycle, Border Collie, Colorado, Crested Butte, landscape, mountains, Rockies, Rocky, wildflowers