Flowers, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York City

This photograph of flowers is my favorite one taken from the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. There were gorgeous deep red, satin white, and flush pink roses surrounding it; but these flowers had a fun-loving type of beauty. They are not so intense as roses. This photograph also shows a bud just starting to come out and a few dead ones that have lost all their petals but still manage to be intricate and colorful; it shows the span of its life.

Life Untitled

This shot was taken through a car windshield. We were driving back to I-94 from Maplewood State Park; it was all hill, open fields, and agriculture with spots of lone trees as far as the eye could see. This particular scene silouetted against the sun had taken me by surprise and I just whipped out my camera and shot. Going down that lonely road, this tree was like a guardian of the path.