Sometimes I just take a photo of something seemingly benign and it turns in to something pretty. (Yes folks, that’s a dead palm leaf.) The shadows and color in these photos bring me to somewhere sunny and tropical. It was a lovely little oasis at “Bloomtastic 2018” at Maple Rock Gardens.
Hi there Hydrangea. The colors of these flowering bushes at Maple Rock Gardens were spectacular. Blues and purples in nature can be perfection.
My macro lens is attracted to random details trying to make something on the moderately mundane level beautiful by bringing it up close. Welcome to Maple Rock Gardens Bamboo garden from up close! I hope you enjoy your tour. If you close your eyes and listen to the leaves rustle you might imagine we are in the rain forest together somewhere tropical and warm. I can hear the ocean, can you?
The angles and lines of these leaves are so beautiful to me. The colors are striking in a way only Mother Nature can perfect. I could have spent hours at Maple Rock Gardens bending and squatting and trying different perspectives on these leaf models. Even standing in the same spot for a few minutes at a time allowed for the lighting to change enough to modify the mood and look of the leaves. If you haven’t noticed yet I find the details of mundane things interesting and artistic from the macro perspective. Thank you for giving me an outlet to share! I hope you enjoy them too!
People ask me all the time why I like to photograph flowers so much. It is a way to make something whose beauty is fleeting live on forever. I can look back at these photos and think of this flower, this moment, this petal, this light forever. It’s unnatural for something to live forever yet I try to do so anyway.
A visit to Maple Rock Gardens in Newcastle, California has surprises around ever corner and its not even Halloween!
P is for Peonies! Hot pink peony that is. (I’ve been watching too much Sesame Street these days with the little one.) Maple Rock Garden had a small peony display this year and they were certainly pretty in pink!
High Hand Nursery hosts a “Bloomtastic” event every year at the private gardens of Maple Rock Gardens in Newcastle, California. The gardens were prepped and primed like a floral Christmas. The weather was perfect, the bees were buzzing, and the macro lens was out. It was a pleasure to see so many families out enjoying the garden with their children in the beautiful weather. In a world of video games, malls, and traffic, it was heartening to know that people still love a great garden. Please enjoy a snapshot of spring from my favorite macro perspective.
In coming weeks I have prepared multiple posts from these beautiful garden each focusing on a different aspect. Thanks for visiting the garden with me! Enjoy your tour.
*For those of you camera nerds out there I was playing with my friend’s Sekonic C-700-U color light meter during this outing and I am totally and utterly in love. I don’t just like it. I love it. I wish I could marry it I love it so much. The accuracy of this tool in conjunction with my Nikon D800 is a match made in photography heaven. I must have one.
In my third and final tulip post I found my macro lens in heaven capturing the tulips at Crystal Hermitage in the mountains outside of Nevada City, California. I took the liberty of taking some unusual angles of the bright and happy tulips which I hope you enjoy. I have taken a lot of flower photos in my day and I just never get tired of it. I keep hoping for a better one or another one or a different and new one that takes my breath away. Thank you readers/followers for giving me a medium to share their fleeting beauty. It memorializes them forever long past their current form.
Happy travels everyone.
Bulldog Travels / Photos By Jenny 