Unbloomed gardens? Yet here I have pictures of flowers? Odd or what? Well, don't judge before you get the whole story. We took a trip to Longwood Gardens, beginning of April, and it was just empty outdoors. Well what else would you expect? April showers bring May flowers. So of course there are not going to be any flowers shining up through the soil yet. Oh well. We visited indoor conservatory and that was stunning. And with natural instinct of holding a nice camera, I took plenty of pictures. I narrowed it down to about a dozen here.
These are some orchids. I actually looked up the name of these up. These are called, phalaenopsis orchids. I found out that orchids are pretty hard to take care of with so many
conditions for it to live under, but they can live for a while. These look so delicate and even the color is great. The way the veins are highlighted in a brighter pink on the lighter colored petals. And this was taken indoors in a large conservatory, a room filled with other orchids. There were pots and pots of so many varieties from all over the world. It was quite a sight.
This was in the greenhouses as a part of the conservatory. I don't know if they were planning on potting these somewhere, since its so early in the season, but it would look great if they were to. The gardeners can create some creative gardens with the height of these plants. The focus of the flowers on the picture self is really weird. The focus is on the flowers all the way on the right. It's different because you expect to see it around the middle of the picture. And the focus being only on the right hand side makes the rest of the picture out-of-focus/blurred. I think it's cool because you don't normally see that and the goal is to draw your audience to the look at the entirepicture.
My first intention for taking this picture was that it would make a decent background picture. So I angled the camera, myself, the flowers, and even the background according to how I wanted the picture to be on my screen. I had to choose the background: either a concrete gray, or this black one with some pink flowers in the distance. I chose the black because it makes the flowers stand out in contrast, although, the lighting could've been better here. Also, note that these are all decisions that take seconds for me. The time it takes for people to make decisions on these may vary, depending on how important the picture is to them and how they want to perfect it. Don't worry though, I don't stand there for minutes, debating on which angle I want to take the picture, all for a background.
This next flower is one I adore alot. It's just so clear and the light falls just right and the background contrasts the flower so well and the flower itself is really pretty. I think this tops the previous picture, background wise.
Bonsai! Yea, Longwood Gardens have a row of Bonsai's. There was a small issue with the picture taking process though. I didn't want to take a picture of every single tree. What would I do with a shot of every tree? I did want a clear shot of at least one though, but I then I felt bad for not taking pictures on the other ones because I'd be missing out on the coolness of the other Bonsai's. So what better way to take it? Solution was simple. Take a picture of the entire row, with focus on one, followed by the other behind.
Gardens??? Yea, these were all indoors. The gardens inside are there year-round. Although, I think they change it seasonally, so I they might have changed it just recently, but i'm not 100% sure. The gardeners or whoever designs the gardens really do a great job. The colors and the variety they include in each section is a job well done. Just in this picture alone, there are 8+ varieties of flowers.
Aren't the hues on these flowers unique? There were hundreds of flowers in the conservatory, but I didn't see a single one that was shaded this orange-pink-purple. Just admire how picturesque and flawless this flower is. No gaping holes in the middle from insects or wrinkles. It looks really healthy.
I really find the color scheme in this picture to work out so well. And I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but the color of the flowers and the trees behind match up so well. Another thing was the focus on this picture too. I took this at a far distance, so it automatically focused on the first line of flowers. It makes the other flowers behind look painfully blurry. Also, it's really frustrating to see that the tops of the flower are cut off . It would look more...complete if the tops were stuck in the picture.
These flowers look good in the spotlight. And the way the background blacks out is because i'm standing at a greater distance. It all depends on where you meter your shot since cameras have lower contrast ranges. And I'm not so sure what kind of daisies these are, but they are daisies for sure.
Again, with the color scheme in the gardens. The pinks and blues and purples work so well. The depth of field turned out to work just fine. The focus line cuts off right where the flowers change. So, only the pink and blue ones are in focus, while the purple and the taller ones all the way in the back are out of focus. And the tall flowers in the back are outlined from the light, so it was included into the entire view.
So... I guess the gardens did bloom.. as you saw in those picture, but once spring actually comes around, the flowers and trees outside are going to look awesome. We saw rows of tulips starting to sprout and trees starting to grow leaves outside. Maybe we should go again in May to see the difference.
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