I hope this newsletter finds all of you and your friends and families doing well.
I’m still here in Bethesda staying at home. April is usually one of my favorite times of the year for photographing. There are wildflowers blooming in the parks and tulips blooming in the gardens. And chances are, this year I’m not going to get to photograph any of them.
I’ve put together a new video – Tulip Time – with some of my favorite tulip photographs – to remind all of us of the beauty in the world. My photos are accompanied by a Medley of Voices of Springs Waltz by J. Strauss
Like many other small businesses, I have been figuring out how to adapt to these new and different times we’re living in. I have suspended in person workshops and events through May 30.
My “Do You Need Help Editing Your Photos” sessions have gone virtual. This is a chance for you to learn how Bill and I approach editing, and we’ll show you how we would edit one of your photos in Lightroom and Photoshop. Virtual sessions are limited to 4 people. There is no charge to attend. As I schedule sessions, I let people who have expressed interest in attending know when we have an opening. If you’d like to join the list to attend one of our virtual sessions, just drop me a note at Patty@Hankins.net and let me know.
Bill and I are both available for individual instruction and consultation on using your camera, photo editing (Lightroom and Photoshop) and printing. We can also help with theartistic side of your photography, including seeing, capturing your vision, and how to edit to match your vision. For the foreseeable future, sessions will be held virtually. The fee is $75.00/hour for individual instruction. If you’d like more information about individual instruction or would like to schedule a session, just drop me a note at Patty@Hankins.net and we’ll find a time to talk.
Whether I’m photographing in my studio or at a garden – I love tulips! They come in so many different varieties that I always find new shapes, colors and textures to photograph. Here are a few tulip photos I’ve edited recently.
I recently photographed a set of pink & white tulips in my studio. I loved the white tips and edges on the petals – it reminded me of snow on the top of mountains. I thought I’d share some of the photos of these cute tulips with you today.
As I was looking back at some of my unedited photos I found photos of a set of flaming parrot tulips that I photographed in my studio last spring. I thought I’d share them with you today.
I always love photographing parrot tulips – they have such amazing petals! And this set had wonderful shades of red, yellow and green for me to capture in wonderful patterns!
Earlier this year, I photographed several sets of tulips in my studio. I’ve just begun editing the photos I took in the past few weeks. I thought I’d share some of my early favorites of the photos with you today. I’m sure I’ll eventually offer some of them for sale, but in the meantime, I wanted to share their incredible beauty with you today.
I’ll be teaching my Photographing Flowers in the Studio workshop on January 21, 2017. I’d love to have you join me so I can show you how I create photographs like these. You can read all about the workshop at
