They’re almost as pretty when they fall off. Will have to try individual petals as a PhotoShopped background when I have more time.
Fringed tulip petal scans
Category: Art
Garden art, PhotoShopped images, etc.
Garden blogger bloom day scans
I couldn’t bear to do another somber ‘seeds and twigs’ scan. Needed some color instead. So I went with the African violets and some late-forced bulbs.
I really wasn’t all that excited about the bulb scans. But you can bet that sometime this summer I’ll plop some yellow flowers down on the background.
An alternate take.
As always, thanks for Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting.
Picturing Eden at the Johnson Museum
If you’re in the neighborhood, get on over to the Johnson Museum before March 22 for the Picturing Eden exhibit. From the Cornell Chronicle:
Featuring more than 150 photographs, the exhibition was organized by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester. It includes the work of 37 artists from six countries, from well-known photographers Sally Mann, Mike and Doug Starn and Adam Fuss to such emerging artists as Jo Whaley, Alec Soth and Lori Nix.
“While the garden provides us with a place to relax, play, contemplate and restore, it can also be a site of loneliness and despair — a reminder of that original lost innocence,” said Nancy Green, the Johnson Museum’s Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. “The photographers in this exhibition are exploring the notions of the garden as a paradise, serving as nurturer, a vision of exquisite beauty or a powerful force — and our attempt to capture this Eden.”
One of the featured artists is probably my favorite PhotoShopper, Maggie Taylor. (I haven’t been yet, so I don’t know if these works are featured.)
Girl with a Bee Dress
Night Garden
The Patient Gardener
Sunday music: Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
Because stop motion animation is just like gardening. A gazillion little steps to create a whole that is way more than the sum of the parts.
Hallelujah
The Inauguration at Last, an illustrated essay by Maria Kalman in her And the Pursuit of Happiness blog at the New York Times. Lots of fine floral imagery.
