During our recent visit to Radium B.C., I took a morning walk with camera in hand. I kept my eyes open for things that might photograph well. As I discussed in a post last February, I’m working on some techniques I learned in a workshop last year and from a book entitled “Photography and the…
Category: Floral
Amazing Flowers
We’re presently spending a few days in Radium, B.C.,about 90 minutes west of Canmore. I was wandering around in this small town when I spotted some beautiful flowers in a someone’s front yard. I couldn’t resist taking a picture and I’ve chosen to share it in today’s post. I think these flowers are called Gaillardias…
Powerscourt Gardens
Powerscourt Gardens in County Wicklow is one of the most beautiful gardens in Ireland! We were fortunate to visit them in the course of our time spent in Dublin. Powerscourt is a large country estate which is noted for its house as well as its landscaped gardens, today occupying 19 hectares (47 acres). The house, originally a 13th-century…
Spring Flowers in the Desert
Spring has come to Arizona and with it an eruption of colour. Desert trees, wildflowers and cacti all flower in April and May and the colours can be truly spectacular. We have a profusion of colourful plants in our backyard including our favourite, the Echinopsis cactus. Flowers can bloom in a variety of colours but…
Dabbling in the Abstract
Following our stop at Cascade Ponds yesterday, we moved on to two other locations where we could experiment with some abstract images. The areas chosen, Sawback Burn and Muleshoe in Banff NP offer some good scenes for what we had in mind. Sawback Burn is the site of a prescribed burn several years ago. It…