Seen at the Denver Chalk Art Festival:
Tag Archives: blue
Quill
If you like photographing flowers, and happen to travel to the big island of Hawaii, you really owe it to yourself to make some time to walk through the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden. Just a few minutes’ drive north of Hilo, it’s home to all sorts of beautiful tropical plants.
Here, for example, is a Pink Quill (tillandsia cyanea) bromeliad. It’s native to Ecuador, but apparently also available as a houseplant (although I doubt it’d do well for us here in Colorado):
More to come…
Pink ‘n’ proud
Another flower shot from our stroll through Colonial Williamsburg:
Remembrances
Another shot from the Yampa River Botanical Park; Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This one’s a bit more processed than the last one:
I basically turned up the blue saturation a bit and turned the green down to a similar degree — sort of a “poor man’s selective color,” because I didn’t like the look when I took away everything *but* the blue. The end result isn’t too gaudy, I don’t think…
Columbine
The state flower of Colorado; along the Copper Lake Trail near Crested Butte, Colorado.
Originally posted to Flickr on June 28, 2008 here.
Thunderhead
Somewhere high over Florida, a storm gathers its strength…
Originally posted to the old blog on October 25, 2008; on Flickr over here.
Monolithic
Liftoff
Backlit
