a few photos from keukenhoff

i had a play with some frames, and here are a couple of photos, hope u like them. I'll paste one first, make sure it is not too big, then i'll paste another couple

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Beautiful colour on these flowers. Good shots showing good detail.
is the first one a tulip?

Thanks, i really liked them too. I have so many i really like, will post a couple more tomorrow (not on the right computer).
And yes, it's a tulip, quite a few different varieties i never knew existed.

all three are, I have the same variety in my gardens, have no clue as to where they came from though.... i had planted red, yellow and Queen of night (very dark purple) two years ago and now i have all these mixes that are HUGE!

I love the last and first shots here...very nice!
-zacker-

Number three is an amaryllis (hypeastrum), not a tulip.

Isn't it amazing, the number of bulbs on the keukenhof? Did you also see the bulb fields around the keukenhof in bloom?

Olga

Beautiful and colorful! What's keukenhof?

It is a park in the Netherlands that is a showcase for our bulb growers

Olga

A very nice grouping with the second image getting my vote..great deatil and use of DOF...exposure is exact. Nice!

only just, as your warm weather took a bit long to come this year (i was there in april). In fact, eneded up doing keukenhoff on my very last day, could have spent at least another 3 hours there, just loved it!!

thanks so much gary. I had so much fun trying all sorts of settings etc, trouble is, i can't remember what i did!!

now that you say that, i looked again and it does look like an Amaryllis! Fynny, I have tulips that are those same colors...and i should have known it was Amaryllis, we have a woman at work who has a ton of them and brings one in when its about to bloom and when its done, she takes it home and brings in another one...lol
-zacker-

Nice frames nice shots.

Great shots! I love the red and yellow in the first. I'm not too keen on the thicker frame used in the second but that's just me - I like things slimlined and minimalistic.

catsith wrote:
thanks so much gary. I had so much fun trying all sorts of settings etc, trouble is, i can't remember what i did!!

All the information is in the EXIF that is included with each image.

This is the EXIF-info for the white tulip:

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