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This Calla Lilly was captured in May 2008 and is one of the most pivotal images in my portfolio. I remember the day I was in the Botanical Gardens for the first time and happening across a bed of Calla Lilies.
Symmetry
I am currently traveling so this is a post I prepared last week and is being automatically published. Technology eh! its wonderful 🙂 I produced an image of this Orchid last year, in fact the image won a competition which I was delighted about. This is an even closer view of that incredible detail in…
Form and Texture
I am currently traveling so this is a post I prepared last week and is being automatically published. Technology eh! its wonderful 🙂 This was taken earlier this year during my numerous visits to the botanical gardens. It is actually a very tight crop of the right petal (Leaf?) of an Orchid. I wanted to…
Tulip
Yet another image from a trip to the Botanical Gardens in Dublin. This is a macro image of inside of a Tulipa praestans ‘Unicum or tulip to most if us. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Exposure: 1/50 Aperture: f/4 Focal Length: 100mm ISO Speed: 100
Perfect White
This is another image from the back catalog, this time from a visit to the Botanical Gardens in March 2009. One thing I love about photographing flowers in the botanical gardens is that they will always display their names so I can do a little research when I get home. So for instance this flower…
Exquisite
The Botanical Gardens here in Dublin is a place I visit regularly (here, here, here, here, here & here). They have an abundance of floral life no matter what time of the year you visit. They have a number of beautiful iron glasshouses that date back to the mid part of the 19th century. One…
Spring is here!
Spring is here! That means I get to do one of my favorite things, photograph flowers. This image was captured in our Botanical Gardens here in Dublin where so much life has begun to bloom. These flowers were sitting in one of the Glasshouses, reaching out beyond all the foliage to see the still fairly…
I Win :-)
The good folks over at Canon Blogger as part of Jason’s excellent Learning Digital Photography ran a competition last month after Episode 22 where he interviewed Tom, Hogarty, Senior Product Manager for Adobe Lightroom. The folks at Adobe were good enough to provide Jason with a copy of Lightroom for the winner. And to my…
Vibrant
The last in a series of images from my trip to our local Botanical Gardens here in Dublin. I was lucky enough to happen upon these just after they had been watered. They’re an incredible vibrant yellow.
Graceful
The 3rd in a series of images from my trip on Saturday to our local Botanical Gardens here in Dublin. This is not the first time I have shot this Orchid as I managed to capture it during a visit to the gardens last year also. This is one of the most fascinating Orchids for…
Velvety Texture
The 2nd in a series of images from my trip on Saturday to our local Botanical Gardens here in Dublin. An ultra close up of the delicate petals of this Orchid. I love the way the colours almost bleed into the white as if it someone split ink.
Blossoming Orchid
Taken during a trip on Saturday to our local Botanical Gardens here in Dublin. Its wonderful to see the Orchids back blooming. The details in these flowers is amazing. I used a very narrow aperture of f/20 here to maximise depth-of-field but still managed an extremely sharp image. I also used a reflector to fill…