Post Your New Photography Uploads For June 2018

A showy Sword Dance peony in full bloom

For the Vikings among us :o)




Upload Date says 5/31/2018 but over here (Germany) it already was 6/1/2018 so i hope that counts.

This is the beautiful and old Mackinac Lighthouse in Mackinaw City Michigan.

Plans to enjoy the summer season? This is a nice quaint events that locals and visitors everywhere come to enjoy.

A beautiful flower garden with Salvia, Chrysanthemums and Heliopsis at Hillwood Estate in Washington, DC.



The same garden shot done in pastels.

This beautiful waterfall is part of the Japanese Garden at the Hillwood Estate.

The Boston Harbor Hotel Rotunda with the US Flag flying in the center. Brewer Fountain in the Boston Common. Soldiers and Sailors Monument in the Boston Common.

Boston South Station Bus Terminal

Frankfurt city skyline on the bank of the River Main, Germany.



Old and new Romerberg quarter of Frankfurt, Germany

The sky was almost too blue but the hummingbird kept landing where I needed him or her. I was able to take a few pictures before they decided to move on.

Serving the vikings among us again :o)

Softend version

A beautiful golden hour sunset over White's Cove in Pasadena, Maryland. Interesting clouds, colors, and reflections during sunset. Two images were merged together to make a slightly wider but vertical formatted pano of this waterscape.

Painterly Old Town Prague street scene. Panoramic work from five merged vertical images.

Lupines in a garden of Valparaiso, Chile.

"Suspended Motion 2"

Suspended Motion 2 is a close up of water glancing off the rocks from a small waterfall. The rocks, bubbles, and green algae give it sublime natural abstract effect.



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A little bee in heavenly pink!

Still life of a Japanese bonsai tree.

Dark Crepuscular Sunset

...June's new one, Hummingbird Fuchsia...

Pastel Hydrangea

The morning sun rising over the Atlantic Ocean as viewed from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The sun and reflection give an orange glow over the scenic view.
There was a bird flying which I removed and placed with three other flying bird silhouettes in the place of it for a better composition and artistic enhancement.

The Enid A. Haupt conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden

Hillwood Estate - Washington, DC

A beautiful double crimson peony in full bloom

This is a waterfall located in Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids Michigan. Color or Black and White versions available.

Blossoming grass in droplets of dew shortly after dawn.

Pink flower on a blurred background of green grass.

Original photo of forget-me-not flowers with the addition of textures.

Pine and birches in the neighbourhood against the background of the blue lake covered with thin ice.

View of Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow late at night, Russia.

On the Moskvoretsky bridge in Moscow at night.

Early April's not-yet leafed-out trees, their trunks dappled with light, encircle a golden, sun-filled meadow. Four sheep graze peacefully in the warmth. A scene familiar to many of us and to many of our fathers and their fathers and their fathers. A sense of timelessness is the theme of the day at Colonial Williamsburg.

...from a walk through the nearby park...

This is another beautiful landscape view across the lawn at Mobile Botanical Gardens in Mobile, Alabama.

My original "Pair of Pink Roses" is rendered in grayscale, or black and white, with a mild vibrant shading added to the grayscale image.

I took this with my first digital camera I ever owned when they used compact flash cards. I forgot I still had it.

A couple of different art pieces from me. These are photos of a teenager doing skateboard tricks that has been turned into a drawing and textured oil painting to create a street look mixed media piece.

Maybe the last one for June, maybe not... performance artist Aquarius Funkk legally topless in downtown Manhattan.

Jeff
Topless New York

Something everyone could use a little of - I think it describes this scene in the North Carolina mountains well:

did not work - how do you delete these things?

...fire season is true...image created...

A scenic view on the Chesapeake Bay side of Tilgman Island on Maryland's Eastern Shore in Talbot County. In the distance is a Naval Research Laboratory. The shoreline is covered with rip-rap boulders as a bulkhead for erosion protection.

Went ahead with just one more of Aquarius Funkk, taking a tea break from our photo shoot.

Jeff
Topless New York

It's time to celebrate our Independence and freedom in America. Here are a couple firework captures I took in Ozark Missouri during last years July 4th celebration. The first image is a combination of 3 images a took.

The best part of the day down the shore for me is walking along the beach in the early morning before the crowds of people show up.

Narrow alley in Old Town, Nice, France in the French Riviera

'The World Outside"

This rich old study scene is found at the Boddy House in the Descanso Gardens of Flintridge, California. E. Manchester Boddy was the founder and developer of the 150 acre botanical gardens. The light and window view illuminated the room area. The outside trees became a natural painting in a classic impressionistic way.



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This from my recent trip to Florence, Italy.

Quarter past ten at night a trolley car pulls into the Dick Greco Plaza to drop off passengers and pick up passengers waiting to go to the next stop in Downtown Tampa.

I finally gave in and posted this one after sitting on the fence forever and eventually deciding I had to do some artful cropping.



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Avalon Island as viewed from Island Club Road which continues across a bridge to Avalon Island from Tilghman Island. Tilghman Island is on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland.