I See Beauty All Around, by Rob Paine

Category: macro photography

  • Wordless Wednesday : Tulips

    Please see second tulip photo below

  • Flowers in the Abstract

    I remember the first time I started playing with a flower photo in Photoshop. It was easy to lose myself at the computer using all the different adjustments to create abstract images. Now I can do the same thing on an iPad or iPhone anywhere on Earth, a far cry from my formative photography years…

  • Inside a daylily

    When photographing flowers I like to bring the viewer into the plant. The closer I can get my 60mm macro to the inside of the flower the better. It is almost like entering another world in a photographic sense (please see more text and a second photo below)

  • 20 Minutes with My Four O’Clocks

    Mowing my lawn can be challenging sometimes. I will be rolling along and then see a flower or tree I like. I feel compelled to stop, get my camera and start shooting. This was the case earlier this week when I noticed how beautiful our grove of Four O’ Clocks looked. I took a break…

  • Beauty in Imperfection

    There is often a certain symmetry to nature which is quite miraculous. Flowers appear perfectly designed as if they were engineered using computer software. It astounds me how my dog is able to time after time balance a soccer ball on the edge of the top stairs in our house so the ball will not…

  • Weekly Photo Challenge : Fresh

    I shot this fresh flower in June at Meadowlark Gardens in Vienna, Va.

  • Sunday at Green Spring Gardens

    It felt like it was 110 degrees thanks to the heat and hight humidity in the D.C. Area this past Sunday. Sounds like a good day to hide in an air conditioned house right? Not for me, time to head to Green Spring Gardens for some flower photos. (Click to see more photos)

  • Wordless Wednesday : Yellow Rose

  • Flower Power

    This very orange flower photo was yet another picture I shot while on the house and garden tour in Garrett County (MD) in June.

  • Butterflies Galore

    Photographing insects is not exactly my “bag” as they say, (especially after photographing a fox earlier in the day) but I found myself shooting some beautiful butterflies recently. The butterfly at left was photographed while on a garden tour in Garrett County, Md. The final home on the tour featured 3 ponds and at least…