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Longwood Gardens – Macro Photography – “Take Me to Your Leader!”

I think I will end this series of images made during our recent trip to Longwood Gardens (PA) with one that continues to bring a smile to my face every time I look at it. Yes, the kids did appear. And yes, they had mom and dad in tow. It was time to break out [...]

Longwood Gardens – Lensbaby Soft Focus – Orchids

Not a whole lot to say here. Most of the morning, I carried two cameras ready to go. One was the 50D with the 24-70 and the other was the 30D with the Lensbaby. I added the soft focus optic for this image. Processing was done with Nik filters – Viveza 2 to adjust brightness, [...]

Longwood Gardens – HDR – Indoor Landscape: “The Lawn”

This is another image from our weekend trip to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. As I said in my previous post, what I had hoped would be a quiet winter morning in the Conservatory (like we had spent there last year) quickly [...]

Longwood Gardens – HDR – Falling Water

Barb and I spent a most interesting day at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA yesterday. It is always nice to spend a winter day within the warm confines of the conservatory. This is pretty much the middle of their orchid exhibit. So between the orchids and everything else, there is really a lot to [...]

Pink Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule)

Lady’s Slipper #1 (1/50 sec @ f/4; ISO 800; -1/3 EV; Natural light)

Lady’s Slipper #2 (1/40 sec @ f/5.0; ISO 800; -1/3 EV;Natural light)

(These two images are Copyright Ed Vatza 2009. Usage without my prior written approval is prohibited.)

Vacation is winding down. Tomorrow, Tuesday, will be our last day in Bar Harbor/Acadia. We will be [...]

Large Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium calceolus var. pubescens)

(1/100 sec @ f/8; ISO 200; -2/3 EV; Natural Light)

We went to Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve in New Hope, Pa. today for their annual native plant sale. We have been slowly turning over our very modest backyard with native plants and wildflowers. This year we purchased some Purple Coneflowers and a couple of varieties of [...]

Green Heron

I came across this Green Heron early one morning back in September at Peace Valley Park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Lake Galena and much of the park was shrouded with a thick fog that morning but this Green Heron along with several Great Blues could still be seen through the fog. Everything seemed muted and [...]

Epidendrum Orchid

This is another orchid from Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, PA). This particular genus did not appear to be part of the main orchid exhibit which opened this past weekend. We had wandered off into another room of the conservatory where we were all alone and found a number of these orchid plants as a part [...]

Another Orchid from Longwood

In my previous post, I commented on the difficulty in getting great shots of many of the beautiful orchids on display at Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, PA) due to less than spectacular backgrounds and some very tough light. Still I was able to come away with some photographs with which I was pretty happy.

This is [...]

Orchids at Longwood Gardens

My wife and I were up at the crack of dawn yesterday and headed down to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. It’s about an hour and half ride on an early Sunday morning in winter. As we talked on the ride down, we realized that it had been, unbelievably, nearly thirty years since we [...]

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