by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 14, 2017 | New Photos
I wanted you to be the first to hear that I’ve added four new photos to the store on my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website.
Three are flower photographs taken in my studio and the fourth is a landscape photograph from my recent trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Newfound Gap, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Newfound Gap, Great Smoky Mountains National Park © 2017 Patty Hankins
Pink & Yellow Dahlia
Pink & Yellow Dahlia © 2017 Patty Hankins
Teddy Bear Gerbera Daisy
Teddy Bear Gerber Daisy © 2017 Patty Hankins
Purple Poppy Anemone
Purple Poppy Anemone © 2017 Patty Hankins
You can see all my new photos on my website at http://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/new-photos-2/
I hope you’ve enjoyed this first look at my latest photos.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Aug 21, 2015 | Caryophyllaceae Family, Flowers, Liliaceae Family, Papaveraceae Family, Tennessee, Wildflowers
As I was looking through the huge (and I do mean huge) pile of photos that I haven’t weeded, much less edited or shared on my hard drive – I found some of my wildflower photos from my trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from last spring. One of the challenges of taking lots of photos – is that I always feel like I’m behind on sharing my photos
So today I thought I’d share a few of my wildflower photos from last spring. I don’t have enough good photos of the flowers to do a separate blog post for each type of flowers – so am combining a few of them into one post
Wild Bleeding Hearts – dicentra eximia – is a delicate member of the Poppy family. I know a couple spots in the park where these bloom each year – if you look closely at some of my photos of wild bleeding hearts from the Smokies – you’ll see that many of them were taken in the same general area.
Wild Bleeding Hearts – dicentra eximia © 2015 Patty Hankins
Wild Bleeding Hearts – dicentra eximia © 2015 Patty Hankins
Fire Pinks – silene virginica – are about the only bright red spring wildflowers so it’s fairly easy to spot on the trails and roadsides. The challenge with fire pinks is finding them in good enough shape to photograph. The flowers are very delicate so it’s not uncommon to see pretty ratty looking Fire Pinks.
Fire Pinks – silene virginica © 2015 Patty Hankins
Fire Pinks – silene virginica © 2015 Patty Hankins
Fire Pinks – silene virginica © 2015 Patty Hankins
Yellow Trillium – trillium luteum – is one of the wildflowers that the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is known for. Native only to Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Kentucky, I try to photograph them every time I’m in the park – since it’s the only time and place I’m likely to see them.
Yellow Trillium – trillium luteum © 2015 Patty Hankins
Yellow Trillium – trillium luteum © 2015 Patty Hankins
Yellow Trillium – trillium luteum © 2015 Patty Hankins
I haven’t had a chance to edit up any of these photos for sale yet – but I do have a number of other wildflower photos available, including several from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. You can see which of my wildflower photos are available as matted prints or gallery wrapped canvases in the Wildflower Gallery on my website.
by hankinslawrenceimages | May 8, 2015 | Tennessee
As promised – here are a few more of the photos I edited on the road during my recent trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Between these photos and the ones I posted earlier in the week – I think it’s easy to see why the Smokies are my favorite national park – and why spring is my favorite time to visit
Early Morning at Cades Cove
Early Morning at Cades Cove © 2015 Patty Hankins
With all the spring rains, streams and rivers were flowing with lots of water
Middle Prong Little River GSMNP © 2015 Patty Hankins
Middle Prong Little River GSMNP © 2015 Patty Hankins
Smoky Mountain Stream © 2015 Patty Hankins
Smoky Mountain Stream © 2015 Patty Hankins
Smoky Mountain Stream © 2015 Patty Hankins
A few dogwoods were still blooming at the Ogle Cabin
Dogwood – cornus florida – at the Ogle Cabin © 2015 Patty Hankins
Deer at the Primitive Baptist Church
Deer at Primative Baptist Church, Cades Cove, GSMNP © 2015 Patty Hankins
Farm Equipment at Cades Cove
Farm Equiptment at Cades Cove, GSMNP © 2015 Patty Hankins
I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing some of my photos from the road – I”ll be sharing more photos from the trip in coming weeks.
by hankinslawrenceimages | May 6, 2015 | Flowers, Tennessee, Wildflowers
I’m back in Bethesda from a fantastic photo trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park – and unfortunately I came down with a case of shingles when I got home – so I haven’t had a chance to do any editing of my photos since I got home. So I thought I’d share some of the photos I did some quick edits on while I was on the road and shared on Facebook during my trip. Here are a few of the wildflowers I photographed in the Smokies.
Wild Bleeding Hearts – dicentra eximia
Wild Bleeding Hearts – dicentra eximia © 2015 Patty Hankins
Fire Pinks – Silene Virginica
Fire Pinks – Silene Virginica © 2015 Patty Hankins
Pink Lady’s Slippers – cypripedium acaule
Pink lady’s slippers – cypripedium acaule © 2015 Patty Hankins
Pink lady’s slippers – cypripedium acaule © 2015 Patty Hankins
Yellow Lady’s slipper – cypripedium pubsecens
Yellow Lady’s slipper – cypripedium pubsecens © 2015 Patty Hankins
Carey’s Saxifrage – saxifraga careyana
Carey’s Saxifrage – saxifraga careyana © 2015 Patty Hankins
Solomon’s Plume & Puple Phacelia
Solomon’s Plume & Puple Phacelia © 2015 Patty Hankins
Violets by a stream
Violets by a stream © 2015 Patty Hankins
I’ll share some of my landscapes and other photos from my trip later in the week.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 29, 2010 | Flowers, Wildflowers
In the past few years, I’ve photographed several members of the Saxifragaceae family. Most of the 30 genera and 580 species of Saxifragaceae are herbs. Found throughout the world, they usually have a basel whorl of leaves with flowers above the leaves. The members of the family I photographed have been wildflowers blooming in Tennessee in the spring.
The first Saxifrage I photographed is Brook or Mountain Lettuce ( saxifraga micranthidifolia). Brook Lettuce is an early blooming perennial wildflower. It grows in stream beds and in other wet areas. The plants grow up to 32″ tall, with small white flowers. Brook Lettuce is native to parts of the mid-Atlantic and South Eastern US. It is found in PA, MD, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, KY and TN. According to some of the wildflower walk leaders I’ve heard describe Brook Lettuce, early settlers used to eat the leaves in the spring since after a long winter there were few other fresh greens available to them.
All three of my Brook Lettuce photographs were taken in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and show the Brook Lettuce growing along some of the beautiful streams in the park.
This first photograph was taken along Old Settlers Trail.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
The other two photographs were taken along Porter’s Creek Trail.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
Carey’s Saxifrage (saxifraga careyana) is another member of the Saxifrage family that I photographed last spring in Tennessee. It took me a while to identify what it was. Then one day I was looking at the photos and realized how similar it looked to Brook Lettuce – that gave me the clue to check out the other members of the saxifrage family. Once I was looking in the right family, I was able to identify it as Carey’s Saxifrage.
Carey’s Saxifrage grows in moist rocky areas. It has a rosette of leaves at the base with clusters of small white 5 petaled flowers. Carey’s Saxifrage is native to VA, TN, NC, SC, GA and AL. I photographed it at Laurel Snow Pocket Wilderness in Dayton.
(c) 2010 Patty Hankins
Now that I’ve learned to identify members of the Saxifrage family, I’ll be keeping an eye out for more of them on my next trip to the Smokies. I’ll be posting photos of a few other Saxifrages in a few days.
