NEW MEXICO BIRD OF PARADISE

Beautiful and easy to grow plants throughout the southwest requiring little attention or water. They produce what I think, are exotic flowers in summer and really add to a landscape design.

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GARDEN FEEDERS

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Red Yucca Flower

Red Yucca plants are common throughout the state and are loaded with flowers in the spring.

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CONEHEAD

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DAYLILLY

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LILLIUM

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SUMMER IN THE GARDEN

Photographing a still life in the garden,

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LITTLE JANIES WHIRLING BUTTERFLIES

Delicate flowers from the garden. It was a windy morning and sunrise was on it's way, but it also didn't take much of a breeze to make this flower sway from side to side. Hence the high ISO for a faster shutter speed.
I processed this in various software programs for the final look here. It's always fun trying something different!

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A Pause In Creation

A dahlia from my garden ( Seniors Dream ). Sometimes when in the presence of beauty, we can touch that which we really are.
I used Topaz Impressions, Nik, and Photoshop in crafting this image.

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Dahlia Mandala

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THE WONDER OF YOU

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Little Janie Whirling Butterflies

I have a loved flowers and gardens since I was a small boy and it wasn’t until my early fifties that I was able to build my own. I picked this interesting perinial up at a nursery about a year ago. It has such an exotic look and can stand on it’s own in my garden which can be a pretty windy and hot place to be. It is quite wispy on long slender stems about a foot long. The entire flower display on the end is only about 4 inches total so it was definitely a macro shoot. Of course a little wind came up and it doesn’t take much too move such a delicate flower even early in the morning. Of course the flower itself with it’s 4 petals resembles a butterfly hence the name. I bet you saw that right away. :)

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GARDEN REVERIE

Salvia is a perennial and offer great color all summer long.

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Daylily Splash

A spectacular daylily from the garden deserves to be immortalized. This piece, was created using Topaz Impressions, Nik, and Photoshop.

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DASIES

I have planted daisies and catmint together with the daises in the foreground. A great combination, and both are easy to propagate in the garden.

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LITTLE JANIE WHIRLING BUTTERFLIES

Flowers bloom in late spring and throughout the summer. They are small and delicate on slender stems about 18 inches tall.

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CATMINT

Catmint is an easy plant to grow in the garden and offers beautiful blue flowers throughout the summer.

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Bird On A Stump

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A Nest In Spring

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The Fragrance Of Light

A rose from my garden. Processed with Topaz Impressions, Nik, textures, and Photoshop.

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TULIP

Tulip after wind and rain. I used a lens baby on this shot. It's my first of such a lens and it will take awhile to get the hang of it, but it does offer a really nice artistic effect.

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Held In Light

It’s gardening time for me, cleaning and preparing the garden for nature’s flower fest! It took me 3 years to construst my garden as I have always been a lover of flowers. With this as with all my images I will strive to bring to the viewer the emotiional impact I experience. On this image I used Photoshop, Nik, and Topaz Impressions.

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A Wet Wet Wobin

Yes, it’s supposed to be “Red Red Robin” but. . . back in the day when I was watching cartoons on TV, a character named Elmer Fudd would probably have said “Wet Wet Wobin”.

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Iris

The intricate beauty and magic of creation is perhaps what motivates me to be a gardener along with the great peace of being close to nature. I built my garden over three years as a retreat and a place for meditation. This is my first planting of Iris in the garden and it gets to have it’s picture taken. :)

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Lily of the Day

The Stella de Oro daylilies in the garden bloom early and into the fall. This is one of the first to make an appearance! I shot this with a 2.8 aperature for a shallow depth of field.

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The Pollenator

After a still life session with tulips I opened one and used a flash and macro lens to capture the inner workings.

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Garden Impressions

An impressionistic take on the garden.

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