Staying engaged and curious can help you find beauty right under your nose.
Spring in your backyard
Bathing Beauties
Can't get enough of my Indian pipe project? Here are some sunlit beauties I found recently.
The toughest in the land
There's more to spring beauty than meets the eye. A quick post about one of the most successful wildflowers.
Ephemerally yours
What covers the forest floor only to disappear completely until next spring? Trout lily of course!
Bounty’s beginning
The winner in the first to bloom race is hepatica! One of my favorite wildflowers captured in my own yard.
My new homebase
Back when I lived in NH, I could and did spend hours in my yard photographing tiny things of beauty. It was barely 1/2 an acre of sand and weeds (for the most part), but it kept me occupied and occasionally intrigued. Now I'm in the northwoods of Wisconsin on a bit more land and... Continue Reading →
Elusive wildflowers – Part 16 – Clintonia
Bluebead lily is a common flower that I'm never on time for.
Elusive Wildflowers 15 – Nodding Trillium
In what will probably be my last New Hampshire wildflower season I find a rare beauty I've never shot in the wild.
Fate and the Irony of Bloodroot
This post is going to be dual purpose. To showcase these beautiful flowers and to announce that this will probably be a short wildflower season for me here in NH. And probably the last for the foreseeable future. I'm moving out of New Hampshire. Out of New England too. Wisconsin. That's where I'm headed. Husband... Continue Reading →
Best of 2014
Better late than never - my best photographs of 2014.
Elusive Wildflowers – Part 13.2 – Pinesap
I found some!! I found some!! OMG! I barely know where to start this post other than to say that anyone witnessing me photographing these would have thought me crazy. It was almost an act of reverence. The fact that they were in a messy state and jammed up next to a pile of dead... Continue Reading →
Elusive wildflowers – Part 13.1 – Pinesap
It's the year for arriving late to the pinesap party. After years of looking for this unusual flower I found the mother lode in Weare, NH. OMG they were everywhere, but just past their full bloom stage. Darn it. You can bet I won't be late next year.
Elusive Wildflowers – Part 13 – Pinesap
Now this time I really mean it. Elusive. E. LU. SIVE. Hard to find. Hidden. Fugitive. Intangible. I've been hunting this flower ever since I became fascinated with its cousin the indian pipe. That was in 2011. Since that time I have found it once. Once. (shades of Johnny Dangerously) It was in Hollis NH... Continue Reading →
Elusive Wildflowers – Part 12 – Purple Gerardia
While wide-spread with many varieties, purple gerardia is new to me. Mostly because I think it gets lost in the overabundance of late summer. That and it grows in some pretty poor soil, basically sandy areas which are largely seen as waste lots full of weeds. Be that as it may, I got right down... Continue Reading →
Elusive Wildflowers – Part 10 – Garden Loosestrife
Another one that's not elusive in the sense that it's rare, but that I've never encountered it before. This post combines my love of wildflowers and my yard macro thing from the last post. I spotted these guys in an overgrown garden that's being reclaimed by weeds. Sigh. Laziness. That's why I can't have anything... Continue Reading →
The Garden in the Woods II
In what I think it becoming an annual ritual, my mom and I went to The Garden in the Woods again in May. We don't go exactly on Mothers Day, but near to it and this year we went a couple of weeks earlier than last year and boy was it different. Most of the ferns... Continue Reading →
Looking out my front door
Lately I haven't had the time to shoot a lot. And sometimes when I have, it's just been too damn hot, humid or rainy. The desire is there, but the circumstances just won't work for me. That's why I love it when something great presents itself right outside my door. This time I mean that... Continue Reading →
The Garden in the Woods
If you live in New England or are here on vacation and you love wildflowers and wild plants in general, you owe yourself a trip to The Garden in the Woods, a preserve run by the New England Wildflower Society. It is magical, awe-inspiring and an unbelievably precious resource. My mom and I visited the... Continue Reading →
Elusive Wildflowers – Part 9
So, two new things for you today. First being this gorgeous wild bleeding heart I found in my yard today. Never before have I seen or photographed the wild variety and so when I saw it today, I got right out there. I didn't use the E-30 though. Nope. New camera making its debut on... Continue Reading →
Springing Forward
Hi peeps. It's me. The phantom photographer. Funny how working full-time makes it hard to get out and shoot. I can't just stop and go out when the light is nice. I can't cancel meetings because it's suddenly overcast and I could go to a waterfall. Even if I do have intentions of going out... Continue Reading →
Autumnal Indian Pipe II
Woo hoo! Another fall-themed indian pipe shot. The brown stick phase of these little guys is so interesting, but I find it difficult to capture well. It's the texture and the funny shape the seed pods take that attracts me. Their dark coloring is a challenge, too; hard to light. I think I did ok... Continue Reading →
Elusive Wildflowers Part 8 – Cardinal flower
Wahoo! Another beauty photographed. Never have I shot these before, but while out doing some river work (my favorite, the Piscataquog, and I'll post about that soon) I found some near a pond's runoff streams. This flower has become quite rare in some areas due to people picking and digging it up a lot. I... Continue Reading →
