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Fisheye Madness

As I said in my previous post, I took only my Lensbaby Composer with accessories on my visit to Longwood Gardens (Kennett Square, PA) this past Monday. The Hibiscus images presented in my prior post were made with the Lensbaby with Soft Focus Optic and Macro lens. I now turn to several images made with [...]

Longwood Gardens Hibiscus

I spent most of the day Monday photographing with an out-of-state, online friend inside the conservatory (it was pouring outside) at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. Having been there several times already this year, I decided to challenge myself by only bringing a single lens – the Lensbaby. (I hear some groans out there. [...]

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 [...]

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.

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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 [...]