Thursday, April 22, 2010

Spring 2010 - my struggle and pleasures


Comments may not coinside with the photos next to it. But you know what I am pointing out to.
I was trying to take a group photo of this plant but couldn't get a good one. So I focused on one.


The Beauty of the Bluebells are, for me, very difficult to capture: this is my third year to challenge.



Is this a kind of trillium? I know the name in Japanese but am not sure about the Englishname. I want to see large flowered trilliums in VA this year.








The color of young green leaves in the woods are cascading onto the water of creek

3 comments:

Farid said...

Aiko, these are lovely pictures. The first one, to my eye, is wonderfully delicately crafted. The whorl of butterfly-wing shaped leaves appear to create the contours of the emptiness in the center, while the hosta shaped leaves underneath provide depth and distance, accentuated by the differences in tones of green. Beautifully conceived and shot.

Do keep trying with the bluebells. The angle you depict here show them truly to be "bells", but perhaps too exuberant to be "blue"?

Congratulations, Farid

Barbara said...

The color of the bluebells seems right - hard to do. One of yours is especially sharp. Always good to continue the quest but I like this blue bell picture. The trillium here is sometimes called toad shade. A nice selection. Your concentration is bringing results. I think the VA trilliums (some 30,000,000 I just read, and one of the densest stands in the country) may be ready for viewing.

Aiko said...

Thank you both for your kind comments.

I had a good day today. Lots of green leaves and water.
i will put them up soon.

Aiko