Thanks! I took that on a workshop last weekend. That’s my favorite shot of the 1000 or so I took.
Ironically, it actually IS a Magnificent hummingbird (aka “Rivoli’s hummingbird”)
Where was the workshop held?
Madera Canyon, just south of Tucson, AZ.
Is there a special prize for the most flowers in a single photo?
It’s bluebell time, and I just posted a photo I took last week. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to go out to Leith Hill, where there are some even more spectacular displays. So it goes.
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I think it’s lovely.
Why, thank you, ma’am. It is a very pretty time of year round these parts.
j
That’s the thing about a lot of these great photos - not everyone has shared where “these parts” are. I would love to know where (generally) each of the submissions was taken - if you have not shared already, please do!
I took the picture of the rose in the Parc de L’Orangerie in Strasburg last autum. It is a nice park, very well kept. Too well, perhaps, in the French style, I like plants to be messier. But it is the country of Versailles, to each according to his taste.
Happy to oblige. The photo was taken during a bike ride along the Forest Way, part of National Cycle Route 21, the section between East Grinstead and Forest Row.
- though in this part of the world, you’ll find pleasing displays of bluebells anywhere there’s some dampish woodland. If you’ve ever seen a railway station scene in a British period drama - steam trains puffing into the station, that sort of thing - it was almost certainly filmed on the (preserved) Bluebell Railway, whose line terminates in East Grinstead. They call it the Bluebell Railway for a reason.
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The Bleeding Hearts were in my backyard on Long Island, NY.
Mine was taken in the gardens of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire in the UK.
California groundcones grow happily here just north of the border in Ashland, Oregon. These were in Lithia Park.
No matter how many times I see this thread title, at first glance I think it says “Monty Python” .
My wild iris was taken on the side if a road in Hawaii (Big Island)
I already mentioned in the competition thread that mine was taken at South Yuba River State Park, California, but if you want to get really specific it was along the Buttermilk Bend trail. That particular trail is kind of known for abundant wildflowers in the spring.
Mine was taken in my front garden in Memphis. I don’t even know what kind of flowers they are. I have a gardener - the retired guy across the street who has built and maintains gardens in all the neighbors’ yards around his house. And he does it all for free just because it’s what he loves to do. I’m so lucky. Choosing one was hard because I have hundreds of flower photos!
The pitcher plants are on the side of the drainage ditch at the edge of our yard. Sarracenias are voracious carnivores so the blossom must be larger and more attractive than the gaudy leaf trap. Otherwise it would eat it’s pollinators.
My picture was taken in my dining room, but the flowers were grown in Southern Maryland.
My purple coneflowers were taken last summer in the parking lot garden of the Laurel MD Public Library.
I took this one this morning. There is a house a few blocks from here; the yard looks like something you’d see in Holland.
