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Since I left Longwood Gardens with 300 photos in my memory card, I thought I’d break them down a bit.
If you’d like to see part two, go here!
I am gonna end this set with my very favorite photo. It is how I wish all of these photos turned out. Everything relevant is in focus, it’s beautifully lit, it’s crisp, and beautiful. You get this because you scrolled to the end of the post!
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longwood gardens on PA?
Of course!
They are pretty cute, and I’m a guy, so I’m not very inclined to like flowers! 🙂
Perhaps being a man, you have the beauty of women to enjoy so you don’t need to be bothered with flowers 😉
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Such breathtaking pix — and you’re absolutely right, by the way: I can’t think of a single person who wouldn’t love these flowers…or these pictures, for that matter! 🙂
Thank you so much! I’m happy you enjoyed them.
How lovely! I adore spring flowers, and these are particularly stunning.
Hugs,
Kathy
I am really excited about their tulip festival. That’s when you know it’s really spring!
so pretty and vibrant. nice work!
Thanks 😀
Who doesn’t love flowers after seeing these gorgeous pictures!
Ahhh…Spring is here. 🙂
Beautiful photos…
Gorgeous photos!! And what a great time to share them with Spring here 🙂
Wonderful !!
Oh, I do love flowers and yours are so beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us!
BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for sharing. I love the elegance of the last photo. Great job.
I loved going to Longwood as a kid. This brought me back, thanks!
You are not a Photog Wannabe, you are a Be! Beautiful!
Thanks so much!
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Lovely photos! Flowers are a passion with me as well. I also read about your little son – wonderful that he is OK! My own son looked like a shell of a chicken when he was born 20 years ago (14 May). Many diseases were thought about and checked up about, but noone could ever say what had happened to him in there – getting no food fom me…
Today he is a grown young man – or at least 14 May he will be – and completely beautiful and healthy. They are everything to me, my children. Take care and much love.
Aren’t happy endings wonderful! Cheers 😀
Amazing photos. Love the creamy white rose shaped flower.
That flower reminds me of ice cream 🙂
😀
I think it is camellia flower 😀
Awesome flowers
Beautiful!
I love your Photos especially the first one at the top. Thank you for sharing. 😉
I love the color contrasts in the first picture. Funny how nature thought of everything beautiful before we did…
Awesome! I haven’t been for a couple years.. but will be going this year!
Beautiful photos – thanks for sharing! Congrats on being FP!
Lovely pictures. I love this type of images!
Those are very beautiful photographs!
Such beautiful photography… I feel like I could reach out and touch those flowers!
That’s awesome to hear! Thanks so much.
I love flowers and you’ve captured their beauty. I would love to see spring in real life however I’m in a tropical country which leaves me with no choice but to see spring on my computer screen..lol..thank you for sharing 🙂
I dont like flowers!
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Well, they probably don’t like you either!
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Beautiful details! Love this!
I do love the last photo but my favorite is the first one!
The beauty of creation! 🙂 Loved these pics; thank you for sharing. 🙂
Longing for to visit Longwood, my own backyard will have to do for now
Looks like great gardens, good use of colour and depth of field
Thank you! Your work is amazing.
Wonderful flowers and pictures! Thanks for sharing.
Lovely photographs…some real stunners in your set…but sorry orchids still creep me out…
Thant made me chuckle 😉
What wonderful photo! I particularly like the soften agapanthus. I spend a lot of time photographing flowers and plants for my blog. Well done to get on Freshly Pressed.
Colorful!
I have been there! These are so beautiful 🙂
Exquisite photos! I need to get to Longwood Gardens again. I’ve only been there at Christmas time, for the poinsettias.
Your favorite is also my favorite! You’re right about the light. Exquisite. Great job. I work hard to get good photos – mostly of my kids now. My goal is to get a photo of my 8 year old, Catherine, that makes my heart swell. I may spend my lifetime working on that one cuz she’s in a wheelchair and unable to sit on her own. Gives me something to work toward for sure! Thanks for the inspiration.
Get her thinking about how much her mama loves her and I bet you’d get that photo ❤
wow, what a fabulous garden. Great photographs, what camera did you use?
I have a Rebel xTi. For these shots I switched between my 28/135 and my 20mm prime. I can’t wait to upgrade to a full frame! I’m totally going to take advantage of photogs upgrading from the 5d mkII to the mkIII!
These are amazing! 🙂
Simply beautiful!
Beautiful. Not only the last one, either, all of them! I’m partial to the first: the shock of the orange against such a delicate blue, wow.
That is one of my very favorite color combinations. I’ve seen some photos of the same flower at Longwood and it seems people tend to be a little heavy handed with the color enhancement. Many were much darker or brighter. I didn’t think that poppy needed to be improved upon so aside from some exposure adjustments, that looks exactly like it did 😀
So pretty! I love the variety, and that last photo is amazing.
Really beautiful photos, I love looking at flowers. I end up with the same amount of pictures sometimes just from a stroll through my neighborhood 🙂
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These photos are so pretty! Flowers are my favorite! I love Roses the most!
nice pictures
wow! this photo series left me speechless… ^^ you photograph them well. thank you for sharing. regards, 🙂
Thank you for the great comment!
Beautiful 🙂
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Flowers are truly one of God’s most beautiful creations. I love their colour, the life they show, the details. Wow.
WOW! You are a master of close up floral photos. I can only wish to get shots so crisp and clean.
At the risk of being self-deprecating I am super annoyed with my lack of attention to DOF. That’s why I loved the last one the best. The stamen on many of the photos is out of focus and I hate that!
Gorgeous!
Beautiful! It’s impossible to look at flowers and not feel a little bit happy. Thanks for the great pics!
Beautiful pictures!
Very Georgia O’Keefe! Glad you had a lovely visit to PA.
I cannot wait to go this summer when they have the special lighting shows!
These photos are gorgeous! Nicely done! I really like the shot of the all white flower that kind of looks like a rose.. is it a type of rose? or something else? The petals look so perfect in the shot, thanks for sharing these images 🙂
It is a white camellia. that was one of my favorites, too 😀
thanks!
Beautiful photos! I haven’t met one person who doesn’t love flowers; however, flowers do not love me–I’m severely allergic to the pollen.
Gorgeous! I love spring flowers 🙂
flowers are gorgeous on their own, but your photography has captured them in an even more magnificent way! Lovely work and you definitely have earned the honor of being freshly pressed!
Great photos. Love the first blue flower. What is it? I love to grow it in my garden. Thanks.
It is a blue poppy.
These flowers are the prettiest I have ever seen, thanks for sharing them with us
Beautiful pictures!!! I use a place called mpix.com to develop my floral shots on this very cool metallic paper…relatively inexpensive and the effect is so much different than just being printed on regular photo paper. These shots would look awesome on the metallic paper.
Absolutely gorgeous macro shots….outstanding! Just love flowers..and these are beauties!! Thanks so much for taking the time to share them.
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Absolutely exquisite! I’ll be back to look at them again and will be sharing them… Right now heading over to part 2 and hitting follow. 🙂
I’m happy you’re enjoying my posts! Thanks for stopping by.
Beautiful pictures! I love flower photography. What camera do you use?
I have a Rebel xTi. For these shots I switched between my 28/135 and my 20mm prime. I can’t wait to upgrade to a full frame! I’m totally going to take advantage of photogs upgrading from the 5d mkII to the mkIII!
Very beautiful! Great job!
Just a word of advice to any photographer…. get your name or watermark on them ASAP!!!! You’ve put a lot of time, effort, and money into them. Don’t let another steal them.
Can’t wait to see more of your photos!
Thanks for the advice! I’ve thought about that quite a bit lately, and the way I see it, if someone wants to steal a photo, they’ll steal a photo. I’d rather risk someone claiming a low-res copy of one of my photos as their own than having some ugly watermark distract from what I’m trying to capture. Besides, I’ve got my EXIF to back me up 🙂
hey these pictures were really awesome and feels really cool !
I love that first photo! What a great collection of flower photographs.
Hallo Pretty Pictures. Truly truly truly adorable flowers and my favorite flower is the last picture. Unmatched Beauty. Thanks for sharing and Congrats for being Freshly Pressed…like a flower!
Thanks!
just looking at your photographs made me happy.. thank you for sharing and yes, i love flowers..
I love your blog, and the photo’s of flowers are absolutly amazing! We have always been simply WOWed by the enviroment, and flowers are such a beautiful specticle of it. Check out our blog for more eco friendly stuff:D we will subscribe to you if you subscribe to us…..deal? 😉
Amazing flowers!
What beautiful pictures, and such lovely flowers! My Nikon camera and I are still having arguments over how to take proper pics of flowers. I need to find a gorgeous garden, like this one, so that I can practice! Thanks for posting!
Ha! Story of the last 8 months of my life! You don’t need a fancy garden to practice… beauty is everywhere. You just have to get a little dirty 😀
i fell inlove with the flowers 🙂
Very beautiful pics of flowers. Superb shots.
The orchid is divine! I love to photograph flowers too. When I get bored, I grab my camera and go for a walk. This time of year there is always something beautiful to capture with my camera lens.
Congratulations on being freshly Pressed!
I love spring because it’s a surprise every day; something new to see. It’s by far my favorite season!
Me Too! Sneezing aside, I love to see spring unfold. It is amazing to see the world come back to life after winter dreariness.
i like flowers. Very attractive photos.
Though am not a fan of flowers just because they ain’t edible, these photos are amazing and fabulous. Thank you for they made me somehow composed and relaxed.
There are many edible flowers! I don’t think any that are captured here, but they do exist!
Indeed there are edible flowers but it is like we can normally buy and eat them daily, yeah? 🙂
My local grocery store sells them!
Beautiful:-) It’s true that there are few people who don’t like flowers. I especially like your photo of the lilies-of-the-valley!
All of the images are exceptional. I think the title is perfect becuase ” Who doesn’t love Flowers?
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed …..
Thank you!
I like the look of flowers and yours are great but I do not like the smell of flowers.
Fortunately it’s not a scratch and sniff site 😉
But they are beautiful!
Wonderful! His photos depict nature in spectacular fashion. congratulations
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Wonderful!
Strikingly beautiful images!
the wonders of colour are magical look wonderful gift of site
Just beautiful! You’ve brightened my day 🙂
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
Thank you! I’m so excited that my little blog is seeing so many new people!
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Thanks for the photos! the flowers is lovely 🙂
love em
stunning flowers and you captured them very well … its always a delight to look at flowers … so cheerful !
Wonderland!
very beautiful
i never saw such unique flowers before
congrats for FP 🙂
Longwood has amazing blooms all year round. If you’re ever in the area it is definitely worth the trip!
Gorgeous post! I really like the first flower and the tenth flower (white). Do you know what kind they are?
The first one is a blue poppy and the other one is a white camellia. 🙂
Thanks Dawn, I’ll update my post with the info! 🙂
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Beautiful photos 🙂 I absolutely love Longwood Gardens!
Thank you for a blogging bouquet !
Love it!
Prachtig !! Mijn favoriet is de witte lely, de bloem is mooi, en de geur is heerlijk….
Dank je wel! Ik ben enthousiast voor Pasen en de lelies die mijn kerk te versieren.
I long or summer, but will settle for spring after a long winter i Sweden.
Ah, but you guys get the BEST peonies… my very favorite flower ❤
Really, I didn’t know, :).
I love that garden! Such pretty flowers, and you can go so many times a year and see different things. 🙂
Wonderful, great quality photos! Thank you 🙂 Why wannabe?
8 months ago I didn’t deviate from the auto setting on my DSLR. For me personally, there’s so much more to calling yourself a photographer than taking some decent pictures. When I have a decent mastery of the art form, then I’ll take the wannabe out 😉
I understand that… I think I am in that category too, and hoping to learn more about photography through this blog as well. Good luck, I think you definitely have a photographer’s eye for beauty and details! 🙂
Thank you! I just keep on going and you should too! Just when I was getting really bored subject-wise along came spring, thank goodness!
That’s so true! I haven’t stopped taking the photos of all the flowers that are now center stage… Thank you 🙂
I grew up in Philadelphia and miss Longwood Gardens. It was wonderful to see these these photographs.
Wonderful – Good use of depth of field – Thanks for sharing…
Beautiful photos!
Wow, those are some beautiful shots! I love taking pictures of flowers because they seem to always turn out at least halfway decent on the camera (the other times I’m falling over from trying to find the perfect angle!). Great job, and congrats on being on Freshly Pressed!
Thanks! It’s been wild and I’m so honored wordpress liked my little post that much!
Very lovely photos <3. I was wondering kind of camera/lens did you use?
Thanks! I use a Rebel xTi and for these I used a 28/135 and a 20mm prime 😀
I was just wondering… do you have an account on deviantart.com? I am a photographer as well, and deviantart is a great place where people share all kinds of art and get feedback on it. Just wondering if you’ve ever heard of it?
I have a flickr account. as often as I’ve gone to Deviant Art I never thought to make an acct.
Its alright 🙂 I don’t have a flickr account, but many people I know do… Do you recommend it?
i just beautiful flowers…
Your photos are fantastic. I hope that I can do as well someday.
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Beautiful flowers, Beautiful photos! You captured the delicacy of the white flowers…not an easy thing to do. Enjoy being Freshly Pressed! I hope to see more of your work.
Thanks so much! I am so grateful for all these new folks coming by and seeing my little blog!
Beautiful pictures!
Longwood Gardens is definitely a magical place — and you photos captured the magic!
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! Your photos look like I always want mine to look! 🙂 Thanks for sharing from your packed-memory card.
I am so honored to be featured on the main page! I’m super excited to have all these new people come and check out my little blog. I put a lot of work into it… it’s my own little project and I just love it.
That reminds me… I should get a new memory card!
Wow… awesome photos… I enjoyed them. I also love to photrograph flowers and you are right it is hard to get it just right. Thanks for sharing 🙂 Congrats on being freshly pressed.
You’re right about that! Thanks so much ❤
you captured some of nature beauty so elegantly!
very nicely done.
What a fantastic post!
I have found another fan of Longwood Gardens!!! I love your photos.
Did you go to the International Orchid Festival yet? I’m planning on going tomorrow.
Thanks! I don’t plan on going; Longwood is about an hour away and two trips in one week is a little rough!
Ah, that stinks. Where are you located to be an hour away?
I’m just over the Tacony Palmyra Bridge in Joisey. Another reader commented on Chanticleer Gardens. Now that looks like it’d be worth the trip, for sure!
Ah, alright. I guess I’m about 45 minutes away from Longwood, I’m near Villanova University.
I’ve been to Chanticleer once when I was younger. I do want to go back though because I’ve heard nothing but great things about it.
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I really loved these photos and wanted to share them with you. Enjoy!
Why haven’t I been able to see these flowers up close in real life. can’t be real, they’re to pretty.
Believe it or not I have come across a few people who do not flowers! Yes, shocking… I know. That’s like saying you don’t love music. I simply can’t fathom anyone not loving music.
I used to say we have not only failed to stop and smell the flowers.. we have stopped planting them. In a technology driven world flowers seem over rated in our every day life. What a sad concept.
Thanks for planting! Keep planting so people like me can keep stopping by to smell.
I’m so happy you enjoyed them!
NICE!
Beautiful !
love the colours…
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beautiful.
great pictures! wish i can be as talented as you 🙂
Love Flower very much.. 🙂
Your photos are wonderful!!!
people with pollen allergies I guess…
Please check out my photos in my yard in Central Virginia!
Congrats on Freshly Pressed.
Adore, adore, adore! Flowes bring me such joy and so do your photos. You have a wonderful eye. Thank you!
Thank you 🙂
Oh, thank you so much for this, it was just what I needed! I am from the UK, and here spring is only just beginning. Longwood Gardens must be an extraordinary place – thanks for sharing all that colour and beauty.
Love Longwood Gardens! I grew up near there. Another wonderful spot for photos is Chanticleer, near Devon. Great photos and congratulations on being FP
Wow, thanks for the suggestion. I’ve never heard of that garden and you’re right; it looks stunning.
Beautiful pictures. 🙂
I love Longwood! I live close by and go at least twice a year! 🙂
BREATH-TAKING!!!!
I wish I could live surrounded by those heavenly flowers 🙂
Congratulations on being Freshly-Pressed!
Those are some stunning photos! So beautiful. I’m sure there are so many new exciting places to photograph beautiful flowers. I will have to find a new location myself. It’s amazing to see different styles of photos taken by various artist. Congratulations on being FP. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
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Beautiful flowers! Thanks for sharing.
breath-taking…!!
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Lovely.
Very beautiful pictures! Keep on! 🙂
Absolutely beautiful….and the last pic is stunning. The detail in it is incredible! Great job. 🙂
These are so gorgeous! What a delightful gift for Spring. Thank you ~
I spent a whole day sorting out the flowering bushes in our patio garden yesterday, and then I stumbled across this blog entry – flowers! Brilliant and amazing!!
I love Longwood Gardens, I can’t count how many times I’ve been there. It’s especially beautiful in the winter when they put all the lights out! These photos are gorgeous, I especially love #9531 — the white petals look like butter!
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What gorgeous photos!
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Great pics. I live near Longwood and should get there more often. It is a beautiful place.
These photos are absolutely exquisite – congratulations on being Freshly Pressed!
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So beautiful..and stunning! Very well captured, I really love flowers 🙂
Wow, those are incredible flower pictures. Great job!
A sheer riot of colours, here! Like them all; but IMG 9487 & 9428 are the ones that I like the best.
i love it!… Very beautiful!
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Your photos are beautiful. I visited Longwood Gardens last summer. It is just beautiful there. I have some similar pics as you too. I LOVE flowers and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t!
I love the white little trumpet lilies.. they’re so cute…
This is really a good work. I appreciate your efforts behind that. Have a great day!
Beautiful, can’t say I have ever seen a blue flower. Last year I spent 365 days of photo-blogging and I took a lot of flowers.
Beautiful!
very beautiful
amazing!
what kind of camera did you use?
I am a sucker for flowers…one of my most favourite things to paint! Especially poppies. These photo’s are an inspiration!
Beautiful photos. I used to manage a school garden and now have an enormous collection of photographs of flowers. There is a lot of beauty and detail to capture in nature, and often filled with surprises.
Wow, truly amazing.
I now have the sudden urge to go out and start my gardening!
Some stunning images here
Awesome pics!!Nature in all its glory:)
I’ve got to plan my trip to Longwood this Spring! Thanks for the excellent photos.
Gorgeous! I can only hope to get something remotely close to that in my garden! 😀
So beautiful! The purple flowers are my favorite, but your photography is just fantastic! I was trying to imagine how it must have smelled there, like heaven I would bet! Thanks for posting this.
Flowers are one of my favourite subjects… it’s difficult to take a bad picture of them as long as you’re not afraid to get your knees dirty! I took a few myself yesterday
I particularly like the variety and colours in your set. Well done!
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These are absolutely lovely! Flowers are my favorite thing to photograph.
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Simply beautiful! Love it!
Beautiful!
I lived in PA as a young child and have many fond memories of Longwood Gardens! Great post!
Great range of photographs! I love flowers and always find nature a tireless inspiration for photographs.
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Hey great photos!!
You can almost smell that last flower….wonderfully done!
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Love flowers, when I have time, I keep a fresh cut of flowers in our kitchen.
Nice clicks..I like it very much…which camera your used to catch these pictures?
Your shots are magical:)
I absolutely LOVE flowers!!! Your pictures are all so beautiful, thanks for sharing 😀
Very nice photography! I loved my visit there a few years ago and long to go back and take pictures again. I was inspired that day to grow square trees. :-}
Excellent … u have any copyright on these pics err flowers?
Can I use them??
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Excellent photography and excellent flowers
Absolutely beautiful photographs! Thank you for sharing – I can’t wait to see Part II.
You’re photos are stunning. I also find beauty in detail. I could almost smell the flowers as I scrolled. What camera do you use? Are you professional?