Category: Flowers

Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk

October 12, 2014 1 comment Article Art, Birds, Events, Florida, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Photography, Travel, Travel Photography, United States, Vacations Patricia Turo

Each year Scott Kelby hosts a worldwide photo walk. Organizers from photo clubs around the world select a location in their area to highlight . This year PBC Photo Walkers, a group that I’m a member of, choose Green Cay in Boynton Beach, right in my back yard. I joined about 50 photographers to photograph the nature preserve at sunset. The park is about 1.5 miles of boardwalk with various plants and wildlife abundant and easily photographed. The challenge is that the selection is not the best location for a sun set meet and this isn’t the best time of year to photograph animals or birds, as the migration has not yet begun. But having said that, it is important to search of interesting shots and challenge your skills.

There is a contest by Scott Kelby that the photographers can participate in and the selected photo’s will be posted on his website.

Here are some of the images I shot.

Shoot Miami 52 Week Photography Challenge – Low Level

January 12, 2014 1 comment Article Art, Events, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge Patricia Turo

This week I took everything from a jogger running, flowers, birds and electricity wires. Saturday I went to a Macro photo shoot where I had to shot lying flat on the grass trying to photograph a water drop. It was the perfect low-level shot.

Orchid Affair

January 22, 2013 1 comment Article Art, Exhibits, Florida, Flowers, Photography, Travel, Vacations Patricia Turo

The orchid show season has begun in Florida with many exquisite specimens on display.

Growers from Florida as well as from all over the world show elegant blooms and sell them giving you the opportunity to adorn your home or garden with rare and exquisite varieties.

Orchid societies and vendors also offer workshops, classes and everything essential needed to provide orchard lovers with the necessary products to keep them healthy and blooming year after year.

The lines, forms and colors sometimes create a ghostly effect with pointed pedals and spider web type flowers bursting out of vines. Some small add exotic interest in a pot on a table.

Some are large and royal, others tall and layered with blooms adding full color to an otherwise green area.

The photos were taken at the Orchid Affair sponsored by the Fort Lauderdale Orchid Society.

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Just Weeds and Water Lillies

August 8, 2012 1 comment Article Art, Florida, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Photography, Travel, Vacations Patricia Turo

LillieEvenings as I walk along the paths and boardwalks of the water preserves in South Florida, I am struck by the array of plants, weeds and water lilies. They create a canvas of color and design in living beauty. It is ever changing from season to season when heavy rains cover them with droplets of water or the hot sun leaves them thirsty.

I stop along the way to photograph the beauty of their graceful lines as they somehow survive the constant changing conditions. They never cease to amaze me and never become ordinary.