All of the images above were taken a few years ago, at the Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida.
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Here’s another take on palms, in front of the Wilmington, North Carolina courthouse:
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And another view of palms, in the Palm House at the Conservatory, New York Botanical Garden, New York City:
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And my most recent take on palms…
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Fronds of the Windmill Palm, Trachycarpus fortunei, photographed at Everett Arboretum in Everett, Washington.
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The variety in those first shots is amazing, and I love the shadows on the black and whites too.
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Thank you Jo – I was amazed myself at the variety of form and flower and berry and who knows what else in palm trees.
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Wow, fantastic images! Beautiful light, color and shadow!
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Thank you very much!
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Love palms, maybe it’s because the street I grew up on was named Isle of Palms! 🙂 Anyway, loved #9, the simplicity and the blue/greens were striking. Also #12 looked perfectly aquatic, like you had taken it under water! Awesome Lynn!
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I used to have a very intense relationship with palm trees…had close to 20 of them in the front and back yards of the house in Arizona…Queen, Canary Island Date, and Mexican Fan palms…they were beautiful, incredible sometimes…and a lot of work…most of the rest of the time. 🙂
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Interesting!! They really are amazing plants – I confess I know nothing about caring for them – I’ve just had the luxury of admiring them without having to think about that.
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And that’s quite a luxury. 🙂
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And very striking images, too, Lynn…seems you have quite an appreciation of them….. 🙂
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Thank you, Scott.
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🙂
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I really like your progression in technique. I quite like the style of you more recent work. Very nice photos!
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So good to hear. Thank yo so much for commenting!
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A gorgeous set of photos; from the macro to the micro. I have always loved the geometric patterns of palms, which you have illustrated so beautifully.
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Me too – thanks for commenting!
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Your palm pictures really inspire me to look more closely at the date palms I see around me all the time in Oman. Your photos are beautiful as always, Lynn. I especially love the 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones and all the close up of the fronds. 🙂
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Cool! Thank you Cathy – yes, take more photos of date palms – from every angle, in every light. For the bottom group I wasn’t all that close, and I was moving the camera, plus there was a breeze – you just have to work with the wind sometimes. Anyway, it made the fronds shudder in the most peculiar way, and I was trying to get the sense of that in the images.
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You certainly did capture that sense of shudder. 🙂
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Great images. I particularly like the b/w palm shadows on the courthouse.
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I was happy with the way that came out, so thank you very much for telling me!
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I much enjoyed those wispy renderings on all your “recent takes”.
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I’m glad, John – thanks a lot!
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an alternative title for your post:
“Reading Palms”…which you most certainly did.
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There is quite a range here Lynn, and I think they represent your desire to ‘grow’. The earlier photos are bold, strong and sharp and reveal a level of self-confidence. The later ones are more experimental. There are some beautiful areas within pictures and I like the handling of colour, but I feel that in some cases you have included too much. Obviously its just personal preference, but I would like to experiment with closer cropping.
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I do have a tendency to want to include a lot – so I understand what you’re saying! Maybe I’ll zoom in on some of these – thank you, Louis!
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Lynn, these are exquisite! You’ve transported us right back to 34.693N, 77.127W…a favorite paddling area in the NC Outer Banks, where we’ve managed to get lost in seagrass (uh, zostera marina?). Thanks for this post. Wow!
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How nice! My son was at LeJeune; I was visiting. I imagine one could get a serious burn, paddling around those islands & marshes. Very pretty area. And, Latin name of a grass? Please! Grasses are hard!
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very nice set of photographs of palms. We have a lot of them where I live, and I enjoy observing them.
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Thank you, and thanks for visiting – you’re in Israel, right? Lots of palms! I love them.
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Superb collection of palms and images.
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Thank you!
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