Tag: florals
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New Images #14: Blue Delphiniums
This is the first New Images post since I’ve been back. For a reminder: New Images is a series (roughly weekly, on Wednesdays or Thursdays) devoted in part to exploring the intersection and combination of Generative AI and traditional methods of photo creation and editing. I welcome reactions, impressions, and other feedback. “Blue Delphiniums” is…
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Flower of the Week: Crysanthemum
This week’s Flower of the Week is the glorious Crysanthemum, and in keeping with the recent theme, it’s in monochrome. (Click image at left for larger view with full screen option.)
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Flower of the Week – Floral Arrangement
This week, I offer this floral arrangement for your pleasure. This is a simple supermarket mixed flowers bouquet. I shot this when I was learning indoor photography with studio lighting.
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Flower of the Week – Rose
Mere words cannot do justice to this magnificent flower – A white rose for Flower of the Week.
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Monday Monochrome – Three Roses
This image violates several rules of composition, but I like it. I think it has a certain classical look. The black-and-white and the close framing emphasizes the contours and the many layers of petals in each flower.
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Pride of Barbados
The Peacock flower (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) is the national flower of Barbados, known locally as the Pride of Barbados or Barbados Pride. Originally from the West Indies, it has become popular and widely cultivated around the world. During my visit to Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona, I noticed it flourishing everywhere. To someone from a northern region,…
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Friday Floral – Cymbidium Orchids
Having loved all types of orchids for a long while, my personal favorites are the particularly showy cymbidiums. Cymbidium orchids grow naturally in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Australia, but there are over 60 species along with countless cultivated hybrids available today. Growing and flowering cymbidiums can be quite demanding due to their…
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Once Upon a Calla Lily
Callas, or Calla Lilies, are among my most favorite flowers. I must have dozens of pictures of calla lilies. This flower – which is actually not a true calla lily – was shot in the wild at Descanso Gardens in Pasadena. Although calla lilies today are mostly cultivated, in the wild we usually encounter plants…
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Red Tulips
These tulips were photographed indoors in controlled lighting. What I find cool about this photograph is that it looks like a painting. I was pretty happy with this image.
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One Photo Four Ways – Week 4 Sunflowers
This is the final week of Sunflowers. For variation 4, I took the original photograph and fed it to an AI with instructions to create a bouquet of flowers using the given photograph as a foundation. It is possible to provide a photograph to an IA with instructions to use the photograph as the basis…