Posted in Bees, Flowers, Nature, Photography, tagged Alexandria VA, Canon 7D, green spring gardens, poppies, poppy, poppy love, Tamron 18-400mm on June 13, 2024| 4 Comments »
The poppies at Green Spring Gardens were well past their prime when I spotted them during a visit last week. Nonetheless I was drawn in by the shapes and colors of these cool flowers and captured some fun photos. The images have a kind of abstract feel to them that I really enjoy, a departure from my normal realistic style.
If you look closely at the final photo, you will notice that a bee really liked the flower too and was busily collecting pollen.
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Posted in Art, Flowers, Gardening, Nature, Photography, Summer, tagged #poppylove, Alexandria VA, Canon 7D, green spring gardens, poppies, poppy, poppy center, poppy seed pod, Tamron 180mm on June 5, 2023| 8 Comments »
I have always been fascinated by the color and texture of the centers of poppies and was delighted to see poppies in several different colors during a recent visit to Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia, just a few miles from where I live. The tissue-paper texture of the petals quite unusual, reminding me of my childhood craft projects with tissue paper and crepe paper—we may even have created our own poppies.
Even when their petals have faded and fallen away, poppies continue to fascinate me (and birds love their seeds) and I really like the look of their seed pods, like the one in the final photo.
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Posted in Flowers, Gardening, Nature, spring, tagged Alexandria VA, Canon 50D, Cindy Dyer, green spring gardens, poppies, poppy, purple poppy, Tamron 180mm on May 18, 2019| 6 Comments »
When I first started getting serious about photography almost seven years ago, I often went shooting with my photography mentor Cindy Dyer. Cindy is accomplished in many areas of photography, but she is particularly passionate about capturing the beauty of flowers with her trusty macro lens. I learned a lot about the art of photography by shooting flowers side by side with her and reviewing my images with her.
Yesterday she and I made a short visit to Green Spring Gardens, a historical, county-run garden not far from our neighborhood, and it was wonderful to see how many flowers were in bloom. I was especially attracted by the poppies that I saw growing in several areas of the gardens—the star-like centers of the poppies seemed to beckon me.
Here are a few photos of those wonderful poppies, which came in a surprising variety of colors.
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