Botanicals

Since I spend so much time shooting plants and flowers, I thought I'd better have a place to put them.

A little bit of color on an ordinarily drab military base here in Afghanistan. A nice change.
Unknown flower at the Denver Botanic Gardens
Water lilies and koi, Denver Botanic Gardens.
Foxglove
Denver Botanical Gardens.
Unknown flower at the Denver Botanical Gardens
Another unknown plant from the Denver Botanic Gardens
Purple coneflowers, Denver Botanic Gardens
I've done this one before, but I liked the colors and bokeh better in this one.
Macro Abstract
Detail of a Rhododenron stamen.
Rodi stamen
botanical doug wittrock
Torch Ginger
botanical torch ginger doug wittrock
botanical doug wittrock
Black and white agave
botanical doug wittrock agave black and white
botanical doug wittrock agave
botanical doug wittrock
Lotus blossom
botanical doug wittrock lotus
Midnight rose. Not taken at midnight, but thats the effect applied to this image.
botanical doug wittrock rose midnight
OK, this is sort of out of sequence since it's a spring photo, but I found this unexpectedly and had to process it.
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Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
Can't remember the name of this one.
Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
Meniscus
Water on lily pad
Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
Water lily and bud detail
Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
Blue Fire
Close up of water lily
Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
Orchids
Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
Midnight agave
Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
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Flower or sea urchin?
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New life.
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Color glow.
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From the back yard. Cold temps and early morning snow yielded some nice hoar frost.
colorado winter trees frost cold black and white
Hoar frost over emerging buds.
colorado winter trees frost cold black and white
Deatil of hoarfrost covered plant.
colorado cold snow hoarfrost water
Detail of hoarfrost
colorado hoarfrost color black and white botanical spring
Orchid juxtaposition
Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
Colorado botanical D3s bokeh images macro
Hoar frost over emerging buds.
colorado winter trees frost cold black and white
Flower or sea urchin?
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Water Lilies
Unknown flower, Vancouver WA
These are the colors as shot. In fact, I took the saturation down a bit, because it was burning my retinas!
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Hoar Frost
colorado winter trees frost cold
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First signs of green in the tree buds today. Wish we had some rain...
spring colorado leaves botanical
Signs of Life
Closeup of new leaves.
spring colorado leaves botanical
Spring is still...springing here. I was expecting to see some tiny leaves here, but this was not to be so just yet. However, the buds are swelling and the temperatures are rising steadily, just a matter of time.
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Early spring crocus (for Colorado anyway).
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Bokeh Images

Botanicals