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Lotsa purple! Siberian irises, Columbine and Spiderwort
17 05 2022Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: botanical photography, columbine, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, irises, macro photography, perennials, purple, siberian iris, Spiderwort, spring flowers
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, nature photography, Nikkor 105mm micro lens, Nikon D850, Photography
Siberian iris
17 05 2022© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved.
May is one of my favorite months in the garden because it’s iris time!
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Tags: botanical photography, flower, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, iris, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D850, Perennial, siberian iris, spring
Categories : botanical photography, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, nature photography, Nikkor 105mm micro lens, Nikon D850, Photography
Daffodils!
18 04 2022Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: botanical photography, flower, garden, garden photography, gardening, Green Spring Gardens, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D850, perennials, spring flowers
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, gardening, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro lens, Nikon D850, Photography
Tulip ‘Lady Jane’
18 04 2022Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: bloom, botanical photography, flower, garden, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D850, Tulip 'Lady Jane'
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro lens, Nikon D850, Photography
Tulips
13 04 2022Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: botanical photography, flower photography, flowers, garden, garden photography, gardening, nature photography, Nikkor 105mm micro lens, Nikon D850, tulips
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Photography
Tulip
13 04 2022Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, flower, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, macro photography, tulip, Tulipa
Categories : Camera+ 2 app, Flowers, garden photography, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, Photography
My 2022 Global Stamp Debuts!
14 03 2022Today’s the day!
It’s the first day of issue of the 2022 Global Stamp (with my photo of an African daisy) in Kansas City, MO.
Look for it at your local post office, or you can order online here:
https://store.usps.com/store/results?Ntt=african%20daisy…
This round Global stamp can be used to mail a one-ounce letter to any country to which First-Class Mail International® service is available. As with all Global stamps, this stamp will have a postage value equivalent to the price of the single-piece First-Class Mail International first-ounce machinable letter in effect at the time of use.

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Tags: 2022 Global Stamp, African Daisy, botanical photography, First Day Issue, flower, garden, garden photography, gardening, photography, USPS stamps
Categories : gardening, Photography, USPS Stamps
Global Forever® Stamp for 2022!
12 01 2022MINE!
I just got an email informing me that the news of the debut was released to the public today, so I can share the exciting news here!
USPS Reveals More Stamps for 2022: https://about.usps.com/…/0111-usps-reveals-more-stamps…
You can send 1 oz letters or postcards around the world with one Global Forever® stamp, which currently costs $1.30 and never expires, even if the postage price goes up. For large envelopes (flats) up to 15.994 oz, postage prices vary based on weight and destination.
The African Daisy stamp is being issued in self-adhesive panes of 10. This stamp will be released in Kansas City, MO, without a first-day-of-issue ceremony, on March 14. Sometimes the Postal Store will allow you to pre-order stamps from their website. I think they sometimes put issuances on pre-sale 30 days before issuance, so you might check out their site mid-February: usps.com/shop and then go to Stamps and search for African Daisy.
This is the 11th image I’ve had published as a Forever® stamp. Previously, I had images for: Ferns 2014, Water Lilies 2015 and Kenilworth Park (as part of the National Park Service 100th Anniversary 16-stamp panel) in 2016.
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Tags: 2022 Stamp Release, African Daisy, botanical photography, garden, gardening, Global Forever Stamp, photography, USPS
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, Photography, USPS Stamps
Saucy gardener
7 11 2021© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved.
Here’s another of my “experimental” portraits of Shawna in her wonderful desert-inspired garden. We wanted to do something sophisticated but contrast the look with those fun gardening boots. Shawna added the (mock)tail for a bit of panache!
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Tags: anti-inflammatory, fashion photography, flowers, gardening, HEALTH, lantana, Nikkor 85mm, Nikon D850, Shawna Coronado, The Wellness University, wellness
Categories : botanical photography, Creativity, Flowers, Food, garden photography, gardening, Nikon D850, Photography, portrait photography, portraits
Stargazer lilies
12 07 2021© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved.
Thought I’d play with the black velvet background behind this group of Stargazer lilies blooming in my backyard garden this afternoon. I’ve previously done single blooms (mostly of Bearded irises), but wanted to see what the effect would be for an entire grouping of blooms. I shot this image with my iPhone 12 Pro Max using the Camera+ 2 app in macro mode.
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Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, macro photography, Photography
Gladiolus in my garden
18 06 2021Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, flower, garden photography, gardening, gladiolus, iPhone 12 Pro Max, macro photography
Categories : Flowers, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, Photography
Alliums
19 05 2021Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: allium, botanical photography, flower, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, Perennial
Categories : Flowers, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, nature photography, Photography
Irises at Green Spring Gardens
19 05 2021Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: bearded iris, botanical photography, flower photography, flowers, garden, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D850, perennials, Roof iris, siberian iris
Categories : Flowers, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, nature photography, Nikon, Nikon D850, Photography
Pocket garden, year #2
19 05 2021And so it begins—my second year of creating the “hanging garden of Babylon,” as Michael calls it. This year I added a lot more punchy color with red and pink polka dot plants and geraniums with colorful leaves. I added an Asparagus fern, coleus, white and green polka dot plants, sweet potato vines in three color variations and several ivies. Stay tuned for the metamorphosis!
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Tags: annual plants, Asparagus fern, begonia, coleus, Creeping jenny vine, gardening, hanging garden, iPhone 12 Pro Max, ivy, pocket garden, Polka dot plants, sweet potato vine, vines
Categories : garden photography, gardening, Photography
Bearded irises galore in my garden (bouquet #2)
13 05 2021Comments : 4 Comments »
Tags: bearded iris, botanical photography, flower photography, flowers, garden, garden photography, gardening, nature photography, Perennial, rhizomes
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, Photography
Bearded irises galore in my garden (bouquet #1)
13 05 2021Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: bearded iris, botanical photography, flower photography, flowers, garden, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, perennials, rhizomes
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, Photography
Japanese Roof Iris
29 04 2021Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: botanical photography, flower, garden, garden photography, gardening, Japanese Roof Iris, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D850, Perennial
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, nature, nature photography, Nikon, Nikon D850, Photography
Roof iris ‘Alba’
26 04 2021Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, flower, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, Roof iris 'Alba', white flower
Categories : botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, nature, nature photography, Photography
Siberian iris with bumblebee
26 04 2021Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: botanical photography, bumblebee, Camera+ 2 app, flower photography, garden photography, gardening, insect, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography
Categories : Camera+ 2 app, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, Insects, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, nature photography, Nikon, Photography
Feed me, Seymour!
14 04 2021This one is, well, um, interesting. It’s got a Little Shop of Horrors “Feed me, Seymour” vibe. I’ll capture it fully unfurled and see if its demeanor changes.
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Tags: botanical photography, flowers, garden, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, Parrot tulip
Categories : botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, Photography
Parrot tulips blooming in my new garden bed
14 04 2021Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: botanical photography, flower, flowers, garden, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, Parrot tulips, spring flowers
Categories : botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, Photography
Bleeding hearts
11 04 2021Comments : 4 Comments »
Tags: bleeding hearts, botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, flower, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, Perennial, pink
Categories : botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, nature, Photography
Parrot tulip blooming in my garden
10 04 2021Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: botanical photography, Camera+2 app, flower, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, Parrot tulip, Perennial, yellow
Categories : botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, Flowers, garden photography, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, Photography
Grape hyacinth (Muscari) blooming in my garden
9 04 2021Comments : 2 Comments »
Tags: botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, flowers, garden photography, gardening, grape hyacinth, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, macro photography, muscari
Categories : botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, Flowers, garden photography, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, Photography
African daisy (Osteospermum)
31 03 2021Comments : 5 Comments »
Tags: African Daisy, botanical photography, flower, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iphone photography, iPhoneography, Osteospermum
Categories : botanical photography, Camera+ 2 app, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, iPhone photography, iPhoneography, Photography
Sprouts
4 09 2020© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved.

As soon as I saw this jumble of sprouted bulbs (still in the bag on the potting bench), I immediately thought of these lyrics by my beloved John Denver:
I want to live I want to grow
I want to see I want to know
I want to share what I can give
I want to be I want to live
I *think* these are iris bulbs. Or very tiny gladiola bulbs. The label was now rendered illegible due to the rain. I ordered them online, and while I planted everything else, I left these on the bench, intending to find a place for them later. Then the rains came. And came. And came. When there wasn’t rain, I watered the garden daily, never seeing these still on the bench. Just now, I glanced over and saw some tall green stalks on the bench. Whaaaaaa? The little bulbs had sprouted; every single one of them! They were poking through the holes in the bag, roots entangling. The roots even went through the bag and had attached themselves to my gardening gloves.
I sat at the patio table and cut them free from the bag and found a home for them in the garden.
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Tags: bulbs, garden photography, gardening, planting
Categories : Flowers, garden photography, Photography
Daylily
14 07 2020© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved. Nikon D850, Nikkor 105mm micro
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Tags: botanical photography, Daylily, flower, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D850
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Nikon, Nikon D850, Photography
Rudbeckia
14 07 2020© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved. Nikon D850, Nikkor 105mm micro
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Tags: botanical photography, flower, garden, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D850, Perennial, Rudbeckia
Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Nikon, Nikon D850, Photography
Daylilies
13 07 2020© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved. Nikon D850 / Nikkor 105mm micro
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Tags: botanical photography, Daylily, flower, flower photography, garden, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D850, Perennial
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Daylily
13 07 2020© Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved. Nikon D850 / Nikkor 105mm micro
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Categories : botanical photography, Flowers, garden photography, gardening, macro photography, Nikon, Nikon D850, Photography
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