Tulipmania

This past semester (I’m talking back in April) I wrote a paper on the reflection of the growing Europe trading world within paintings. In this paper I spent about two pages discussing tulips, which was only possible after reading a 300 page + book about tulips. My mom is a very big gardener, all the pictures of flowers from my house have been made possible with extensive hours in her amazing garden. I am not. So when I take pictures of plants in the garden, I do not really know what I am taking a picture of, my mom usually has to tell me.

When I took the following picture it was the same thing, I thought I was taking a picture of a flower. I had no idea what is was, but my mom informed me it was a tulip. So despite spending hours looking at portraits of tulips (yes portraits, and not paintings of them) I was still unable to identify a tulip in the ground.

So here is my portrait of a pink tulip (if you want me to find out the fancy name, I can do so.)

I’m BACK

I have been feeling pretty uninspired lately with pictures. This is the longest time I have really spent in the same city, I’ve put down all my photo projects, and I’ve really only been taking pictures of my friends or for work.

 But I’m ready to return for a few reasons:

My photo friend has been suggesting that I post

I realized after work that it is harder than I thought to take action pics and make it look good.

My computer is working amazingly well again (I had to get a new battery, new screen, re-install windows…I wanted to throw it out the window…it was probably more stressful than I wanted to handle).

And, most importantly I am going to Italy for my fall semester and want away to document my trip with out having to give much personal detail.

These reasons made me realize I need to bring the blog back. After spending the afternoon at Wright’s House of Falling Water taking pictures, and being told I can’t take pictures. I decided I should post again. (Sorry Uri  you won’t see this until probably until days after).

These pictures are from a series I took after a rainstorm in Cleveland. Its in my mother’s garden and I really wanted to take close up pictures of the rain drop on the plants. So I did that, and here’s the outcome.

 

Yellow…

This is a branch with a bunch of yellow flowers on it.