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Pink Thing of The Day: Perfect Pink Peony

pink peony photo by gail worley
Photo By Gail

As an amatuer photographer continually striving to improve my skills, I can’t tell you how much better and more engaging my photos are since I started using flowers as a benchmark subject.  Consider a single flower, examined up-close, and there are so many different ways to approach it. From a wide angle to deep detail shots that turn isolated sections of the flower into an abstract art form, a flower presents infinite possibilities when considering perspective.
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Ten Flowers Photographed in the Rain

flowering tree in the rain photo by gail worley
Not an Oil Painting: Flowering Tree in The Rain (All Photos By Gail)

We haven’t had much of a winter in NYC, but that doesn’t mean I’m not looking forward to spring! In fact, the siting of 14th street’s first flowering tree of the season made me think back to  May of 2019, when my pal Jamie and I made plans to attend the annual Cherry Blossom Festival (Sakura Matsuri) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The fact that it happened to be pouring down rain that day did not dampen our adventurous spirits!
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