Today's image is the last tree that I processed with an Black and white and then infrared treatment. This was another tree that was at Hershey Gardens in PA that I thought the effect worked rather well with. I liked how it showed off the twisty trunks a bit better.
Today's image is another that I did of a tree I had seen in Hershey Park Botanical Garden in Pennsylvania. I was inspired by a poster I had seen in an Extension Agent's office. This has an infrared treatment done to it, along with black and white. I really liked how it turned out, hope you enjoy it as well. 😁
Happy Monday and happy new week! While I was looking at photos from Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania for yesterday's image I found I had a number of butterfly images from there that I never shared. This is one of them, a beautiful Common Banded Peacock Swallowtail Butterfly. These are found in eastern and southern parts of India.
I was at a meeting with a Kansas Extension Agent last week and saw this beautiful photograph in her office and was inspired. This is my version of that photo which is actually fairly close to how the tree was captured in the photo. This is a tree from Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania with a few treatments on it including an infrared one.
Happy Monday! Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania was a lovely place filled with all kinds of opportunities to shoot flower of all kinds. This is a Rudbeckia and related to a Black Eyed Susan. I hope to find some of these to plant this year. I love this particular variety with the green eyes and dual colored petals.
Happy Monday! I wanted to start the week off with something bright and cheery as it looks like we are heading into some dreary weather. These are a flower I like a lot but don't grow myself because their bulbs won't survive our Kansas winters and I am too lazy to dig them up and replant every year. Being honest here. 😀 I took this image at Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania this past July. They had lots of lovely ones there in different colors. They are called Dahlias.
Happy Friday, TGIF! Friday's Are bokehlicious and here is today's bokeh image. This is another lovely rose that I saw and photographed at Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania. It had rained a bit that day and there were still a few drops on the flowers for a bit more interest.
It's the first Friday of the new year, TGIF! Friday's are Bokehlicious here on the blog. Bubbly bokeh is my favorite kind and here is a shot of a Rose that I took in Hershey Gardens in Pennsylvania this past summer that has quite a bit of that.
I was really fascinated by a few of the trees they had at Hershey Gardens when I visited this past summer. I think this is a Japanese Maple. I really like the twisty trunks on them. I have always liked the Junipers out west for the same reason. I'd love to see this tree in autumn.
This summer I was out in Pennsylvania visiting family. While there we went to Hershey Gardens where they had a cool butterfly house. I was able to capture one of my favorite butterflies enjoying some lovely purple flowers. This is a Paper Kite butterfly. They are usually found in Asia from Thailand to Malaysia, the Phillipines, Southern Taiwan and also northern Australia. They are fairly large, the average wingspan is 3.75 to 4.5 inches.
This is the last of 3 different trees that I saw at Hershey Gardens that were quite different and beautiful to stand under with their sweeping branches. As I mentioned, I wish I had paid more attention to what they were. This one was a bit sad to see because people had carved their initials or names all over the beautiful trunk at some point. Their were signs now but the damage had been done. Fortunately the tree survived it but still sad. I took the photo in a way that didn't show the damage too much.
This was another of the interesting trees at Hershey Gardens. I don't know what type this was but the branches reminded me of rain falling while standing under it. This is actually a combination of 2 photos put together to get more of it in.
While I was at Hershey Gardens this guy was pointed out to me when I was photographing the Globe Thistles. I had my macro lens on at the time so I couldn't get as close as I would have liked without scaring it off. I thought this one turned out fairly well though. It's a Clearwing Moth, very fun creatures to watch move around the plants. It was enjoying a Butterfly Bush.
While I was in Pennsylvania and visiting Hershey Gardens, they had a very nice Butterfly House. The people working there were quite nice and when they saw me with a camera would point out things they thought might be of interest to me. One of those was this Atlas Moth which are not seen very often, even in a Butterfly House. It was quite cool and quite large. It was approximately 6 inches across, at least.
While I was out in Pennsylvania and at Hershey Gardens I saw this very cool flower. They had a neat "Children's Area" which was not just for kids. It had a lot of flowers that butterflies and bees love. I found this flower very cool looking and it was attracting bees while I was there. It is called a "Globe Thistle" and I looked it up and it should grow well in my area of the country as well. I am going to look for these or seeds for them next spring.
While I was in Pennsylvania, I got to go to Hershey Gardens one day. What a great place. There were all kinds of beautiful flowers and a Butterfly House that was quite fun. Photos of those things to come. The Gardens also had some really interesting trees. I loved this one with the twisting and curving trunks.
