“Green and Yellow Tulip” — A yellow tulip begins to open, wiht some of its green bud color intact.

Yes, another tulip! I made a lot of tulip photographs on our early-spring visit to the garden of a historic estate on the San Francisco Peninsula. I won’t share all of them, but I will continue to gradually release a set that includes different colors, settings, and states of development…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/06/01/green-and-yellow-tulip/

#tulip #yellow #flower #spring #nature #photography

“Yellow Tulip Bud #2” — A yellow tulip bud on the verge of blossoming.

This may seem like an odd admission, but the way I make these flower photographs has more in common with how I do street photography than, say, landscape photography. Because the subject appears to be still, you could think that I probably carefully pick a flower, set up a tripod, analyze the light, focus, and then make the photograph. The reality is that I shoot all of these with a small handheld camera, and I rarely spend more than a minute on a flower and often less…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/05/29/yellow-tulip-bud-2/

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One lone #tulip in front of the church by my place.

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