
The Magical Blending of Digital Photography
and Flowers
by BT
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
"Come with me,
Into my garden,
Where beauty rests
And nature glows."
---BT
Salmon Queen blooming in the shade
of the patio terrace
May 8, 2008
One of BT's all-time favorite geraniums!
Flowers bring loveliness into
our lives,
The colors, the perfumy scents,
That permeate the air in the
spring.
Bring to us a dreamy sensation
of reality.
---BT
"To me, photography is an
art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in
an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things
you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
----Elliott Erwitt
"Shall we make a new rule
of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than
is necessary?"
---James Barrie
Solidor ivy geranium
May 6, 2008
"The temple bell stops
But I still hear the
Sound coming out of
The flowers."
----Basho
Minutia
updated May 12, 2008
Updated April
23, 2008, p. 3
May updated
May 1, 2008
Updated
May 6, 2008
Salmon
Queen ivy geranium
April
28, 2008
Salmon Queen
You are the one,
The beauty of the garden.
I marvel at the neon brightness
of your blossoms.
You bring me beautiful pleasure
each
Time I view your loveliness.
----BT
Peppermint Candy
May 6, 2008
"Photography is not about
cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers.
A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter
wrote a great novel."
-Peter Adams
Barbe Bleau
April 28, 2008
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT
Lense: Canon EF-S60mm f/2.8 Macro
USM
"The love of gardening is
a seed that once sown never dies."
---Gertrude Jekyll
"From May on, I can hardly
wait to get up to see what has happened overnight, for one of
the pleasures of a garden is that something is always happening;
it is not static, even for a day."
---May Sarton, Plant Dreaming
Deep, 1968
French Quarter
April 28, 2008
"If you would be happy all
your life--plant a garden."
----Chinese Proverb
"There was the smell of
all the flowers at once, as if the earth had been unconscious
all day and were now waking."
---Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago,
1958
Happy Thought
March 26, 2008
"Mysteries lie all around
us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived."
----Wynn Bullock
"The virtue of the camera
is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an
artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."
----Brooks Anderson
Za Za Alstromeria
May 6, 2008
"All gardeners live in beautiful
places because they make them so."
- Joseph Joubert
"A flower touches everyone's
heart."
~Georgia O'Keeffe
"To me, photography
is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting
in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the
things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
----Elliott Erwitt
"Every gardener knows that
under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to
sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl.
And the anticipation nurtures our dream."
- Barbara Winkler
"Always remember the beauty
of the garden, for there is peace."
- Author Unknown
"The Garden" updated April
23, 2008, page 3.
"If all the beasts were gone, men
would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens
to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth."- - - Chief Seattle of the Suwamish Tribe
Christmas Cactus: Holiday Orange
May 6, 2008
"There is something remarkably
more beautiful about flowers that you yourself have planted, and
divided and cared for, than any other flowers. It reminds one
that the creation of beauty is a happy experience."
-----Lady Bird Johnson
March 4, 2008
I know when Spring is coming.
The blossoms speak it clearly,
With their neon hues so
Generously spread throughout
The terraces of the garden.
The winter is moving out,
At least here on the coastal
plains
Where we reside with nature
Painting the landscape with beauty.
The cold days and nights go somewhere
else;
While we bask and watch the season
Gently meander into our lives
again, as before,
Bringing peace, tranquility,
peace of mind
And a feast of colorful blossoms.
---BT, March 2, 2008
Temple bells die out.
The fragrant blossoms remain.
A perfect evening.
---Basho
"The secrets are in the
plants. To elicit them you have to love them enough."
----George Washington Carver
Royal Dark Red
February 28, 2008
Garden Sanctuary
You who walk,
Maybe with troubled thoughts,
Come, enter here and rest;
And may the sweet serenity of
growing things,
And the heavenly, peace
Be mirrored in thy soul.
---Doxis M. Palmer
"Flowers have spoken to me more
than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of
angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though
few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."----Lydia M. Child
"From May on, I can hardly
wait to get up to see what has happened overnight, for one of
the pleasures of a garden is that something is always happening;
it is not static, even for a day."
---May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep,
1968
"With a few flowers in my
garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."
---Lope de Vega
"You can find pictures anywhere. It's
simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just
have to care about what's around you............."
---Elliott Erwitt
"My theory is that the flowers,
appreciating how hard I try, cannot bear to disappoint me and,
therefore, bloom their hearts out in recognition of this devotion."
----Martha Smith, Beds I Have
Known: Confessions of a Passionate Amateur Gardener, 1990.
Flowers bring loveliness into
our lives,
The colors, the perfumy scents,
That permeate the air in the spring.
Bring to us a dreamy sensation of reality.
---BT
"People from a planet without
flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to
have such things about us."
----Iris Murdoch
"Look deep, deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better."
-----Albert Einstein
"I paint with my lens."
--Roloff Beny
"In my garden, love grows."
----Martin Heidegger
"Let us be grateful to people
who make us happy. They are charming gardeners who make our souls
blossom."
----Marcel Proust
"Gardening is about enjoying
the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without
feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little
peace and serenity."
----Lindley Karstens
"You can touch them with
your eyes."
-- Pablo Picasso
"As I work among my flowers,
I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with
them, and adoring them as if they were human beings."
----Celia Thaxter
"Nature has been for me,
for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure,
and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."
----Lorraine Anderson
"Nothing living should ever
be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a
tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because time is short.
Civilization is another word for respect for life."
----Elizabeth Goudge
2008 Monthly Flowers
i
"A flower touches everyone's
heart."
~Georgia O'Keeffe
"As I have gardened, feeling
myself in some sort of deep dialogue with an unseen and silent
partner, I have come to know true peace."
----Martha Smith
"The fragrance of flowers
spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of
a person spreads in all directions."
----Chanakya
"But she was inside the
wonderful garden and she could come through the door under the
ivy any time and she felt as if she had found a world all her
own."
---The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson
Burnett
"It is always a great pleasure-and
surprise-when you happen on just the perfect place in which to
plant some special treasure."
~ Margery Fish
"It is the sweet, simple
things of life which are the real ones after all."
----Laura Ingalls Wilder
"To create a garden is to search
for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are
guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural
masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the
expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is
at the heart of all gardening. - Marina Schinz
"Often I hear people say,
"How do you make your plants flourish like this?"........."What
is your secret?" And I answer with one word, "Love".
----Celia Thaxter, An Island
Garden, 1895
"To make enduring photographs,
one must see with one's mind's eyes, for the heart and the mind
are the true lens of the camera."
----Yousuf Karsh
"Take some time for simple
things,
the common pleasures each day
brings-
the beauty of the morning hours,
the fragrance of your favorite
flowers....."
----Amanda Bradley
"Gardeners instinctively
know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel
of garden history will always be coming full circle."
------Francis Cabot Lowell
"Butterflies add another
dimension in the garden for they are like dream flowers----childhood
dreams----which have broken loose from their stalk and escaped
into the sunshine."
------Miriam Rothschild, The Butterfly
Gardener, 1983
"There are always two people
in every picture: the photographer and the viewer."
- Ansel Adams
Blooming flowers
residents of this world, too
for a short time.
---Issa
"There is something remarkably
more beautiful about flowers that you yourself have planted, and
divided and cared for, than any other flowers. It reminds one
that the creation of beauty is a happy experience."
-----Lady Bird Johnson
"In joy or sadness, flowers
are our constant friends."
----Kozuko Okakura
"As I work among my flowers,
I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with
them, and adoring them as if they were human beings."
----Celia Thaxter
"Yes, in the poor man's
garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers.
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind
And joy for weary hours."
- Mary Howitt
New Hummingbird
photos on August 8, 2006!
"The temple bell stops
But I still hear the
Sound coming out of
The flowers."
----Basho
Visit
A Beautiful Rose Garden
Page
5 of the Rose Garden posted August 19th
New visitors
to my flowers!
More hummingbirds,
August 31, 2005
"To dwell is to garden."
---Martin Heidegger
"Whoever loves and understands
a garden will find contentment within."
----Chinese Proverb
Come with me,
Into my garden,
Where beauty rests
And nature glows.
---BT
"Each flower is a soul opening
out to nature."
--- Gerald De Nerval
Special Flowers of the month
2004
Flowers from 2005
Flowers from 2007
"As I have gardened, feeling
myself in some sort of deep dialogue with an unseen and silent
partner, I have come to know true peace."
----Martha Smith



After bells had rung
And were silent....
Flowers chimed
A peal of fragrance.
----Basho



Visit My Flower Pages
- Agapanthus
- Alstromeria
- Ann's
Flowers
- Arctic Red Ivy
Geranium
- Azaleas
- Backyard Birds
- Barbe Bleau
Geranium
- Barock ivy geranium
- Barryscourt Castle, Co. Cork, Ireland, April, 2004
- Beauty of Eastbourne
- Begonias
- Belleek Pottery
from Ireland
- Bernardo Guiber
Geranium
- Birthday Flowers
- Black Magic
Geranium
- Black Phoebe of
the Garden
- Bluebells of
Cloyne, Ireland
- Bob's Roses
- Bougainvillea
- Bower vine flowers
- Butterflies
and Flowers
- Butterfly Exhibit
- Butterfly:
Photo by Susan
- California Poppies
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- Camellias
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of Ireland
- Candy Cane ivy
geranium
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- Cathy's Irish
Flowers
- Cathy's
Irish Flowers 2008
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Irish Flowers, 2007
- Cathy's
Irish Flowers, April, 2004
- Christmas Cactus
- Cats I have known
- Christmas Cactus
October 18, 2003
- Christmas
Cactus-Summer 2004
- Chrysanthemums
- Clivia
- Colorcade®
Geraniums
- Colorcade®Lavender
- Colorcade®Purple
- Colorcade®Red
- Colorcade®Red
Cherry
- Convent
Garden in Co. Cork, Ireland
- Coral ivy geranium
- Crows' Claws
Cactus
- Cyclamen
- Daffodils
- Daffodils by
Susan
- Dahlias
- Dark Pink
- Dark Red Blizzard
ivy geranium
- Day Lily
- Decora Lavender
- Destiny
- Donna's Japan Photos
- Double Red Geranium
- Dungarven, Co.
Waterford, Ireland
- Eclipse of the
Moon Feb. 20, 2008
- El Paso ivy geranium
- Epiphyllum of the Night
- Escallonia
- Father's Day
- Felix Geranium
- Flowers of
Ireland, April 2002
- Flowers in Spode
- Flowers of
Emanuel Lutheran Church
- Flowers
from a Mall
- Free Style Lilac
- French Quarter
ivy geranium
- Garden
Visitors
- Geraniums 1
- Geraniums 2
- Geraniums 3
- Geraniums 4
- Geraniums 5
- Global Cherry
- Global Lilac
- Guest Photographer:
Bob & Birgitta
- Guest Photographer:
Donna
- Guest Photographer:
George
- Guest Photographer:
Lolita
- Guest Photographer:
Mark
- Gypsy
- Happy Thought
zonal geranium
- Hawks March 12,
2008
- Hibiscus
- Hooded Oriole
- Hummingbirds
- Hummingbirds
2007
- Iceberg Roses
- Icelandic
Poppies
- Iceplant
- Impatiens
- Iris
- Irish Flowers
April 2008
- Irish Flowers
- Irish Flowers
2
- Irish Pottery
- Jack's Photo
for Grandpa Bob
- June's Flowers
- Lavender
Blizzard
- Links
- Mahogany Geranium
- Mandarin Geranium
- Mark & Susan's
Roses
- Mark's Flowers
- Martha-Washington
geranium
- Miscellaneous
- Morning Glories
- Mothers Day
- Mother's
Day Rose
- Neon
- New Special
Flowers-March 2004
- New Years Thoughts
- Oleanders
- Orchids
- Pansies
- Paper Whites
- Peace Lily(Spathiphyllum)
- Pepper Mint
Candy Geranium
- Petunias
- Picasso Geranium
- Pink Blizzard
Ivy Geranium
- Pink Nicole
- Poinsettia
- Pretty Polly
- Primroses
- Primrose
Ivy Geranium
- Promise Ivy Geranium
- Purple Dream
- Purple Splendor
- Ragtime
- Rain Flowers
- Red Blizzard
- Red Splendor
- Red Velvet
- Regal Camelot Geranium
- Rose Garden
in the city
- Roses
- Roses from Ireland
- Royal Amethyst
- Royal Dark Blue
- Royal Dark
Pink Geranium
- Royal Dark
Red Geranium
- Royal Light
Pink Geranium
- Salmon Queen
Geranium
- Salmon Zonal
Geranium
- Sharon's
Flowers
- Snow Queen
- Sofie Cascade
- Solanum
- Solidor Geranium
- Sundance ivy geranium
- Susan's Flowers
- Susan's Flowers from France, March, 2003
- Sweet Peas
- Sweet Peas-summer-fall
2002
- Sybil Holmes
Geranium
- Taj Mahal Geranium
- Tulips from England
by Susan
- Vagabond Geranium
- Verbena
- Violets
- Vinco
- White Blizzard
ivy geranium
- White Nicole
"Photographers deal in things
which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there
is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."
----Henri Cartier-Bresson

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