Blue Rose

A stained glass window in Ireland

Photo by BT

2007

 

 

The Magical Blending of Digital Photography and Flowers

by BT

Cameras: Canon Digital Rebel XT

Canon G10 Digital

 

 

"How lucky we are, we who love gardening and flowers!"

---BT

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tango Light Orchid

November 18, 2009

Photo by BT

 

Minutia updated November 18, 2009

 

 

Christmas Cactus: Thor Nille

November 18, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

 

 

"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

 

 

 

 

 

Barock ivy geranium

November 18, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
     

- Marc Chagall

 

 

Rocky Mountain Violet

October 23, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

 

 

Ardmore-an adventure in history!

New photos added September 15, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling."

----Mirabel Osler

 

 

Picasso

November 18, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

~ Lao Tzu ~

 

 

Freestyle Pink

October 23, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

"A garden is a friend you can visit anytime."

---anon.

 

 

Candy Cane Flower

a macro photograph

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

 

 

 

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."

----Anne Bradstreet

 

 

 

Blooming flowers

residents of this world, too

for a short time.

---Issa

 

Candy Cane and Mandarin-a colorful pair on a foggy overcast day

October 18, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

 

"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

 

 

Burgundy Ice ivy geranium

October 17, 2009

Photo by BT

Canon G10 Digital

 

 

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

---Franz Kafka

 

 

"To create a little flower is the labor of ages."

- William Blake

 

 

Royal Dark Red

October 14, 2009

Photo by BT

 

 

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

---Lady Bird Johnson

 

 

Royal Pink

October 14, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

 

 

 

"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."

-  Author Unknown

 

 

 

 

French Quarter of the rain

October 13, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

 

"A flower touches everyone's heart."

~Georgia O'Keeffe

 

 

A velvety Picasso on a Fall afternoon

October 9, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon G10 Digital

 

 

 

"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?"

 

----Maurice Maeterlinck

 

 

 

 

 

True obedience:

silently the flowers speak

to the inner ear

----Onitsura

 

 

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After bells had rung

And were silent....

Flowers chimed

A peal of fragrance.

----Basho

 

 

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

---Hellen Keller

 

 

Vagabond ivy geranium

October 1, 2009

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT-lense 60mm macro

 

 

 

"The best garden should be a personal expression."

----Michael Pollan

 

 

 

 

 

 

"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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"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

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?"

 

----Maurice Maeterlinck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Garden  BT's Poetry
 Hawks  Garden Visitors
   Christmas Cactus

 

 

 

"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

 

 

 

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"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

 

 


 

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