I have to add my congratulations on the stunning series. I had just visited the Library of Congress and took what I could on my iPhone, but nothing like the incredible beauty of the place such as you captured. what kind of comer did you use? A few details please.

Loved this article. A good laugh makes a day.
From a Brownie owner, who lives on a boat and often hears the bow referred to as the pointy end.

Looks like a hydrangea to me. Compare it to my shots taken in a garden in Maine.

thank you so much. Scary but necessary info. I have local docs to help, but so mcy of the year we are moving from place to place by boat, so i take some chances on finding qualified help in a hurry.

Wish I had more faith that the pills will help. Meanwhile it is still a beautiful world out there.

I take the Areds 2 formula, and yes the solution is learning how to use my left eye in the view finder, or as you are suggesting a rig to make that easy. Thank you for the suggestions.

I am mostly guessing when I take the picture, or I try to hold the viewer to my left eye; very awkward.

I currently use a Fuji Fine Pix camera S4000. never been as happy with it as I was with my original S7000, and now I have an additional problem. I need to use the eye piece to see when out in the sun, but my right eye is being affected by macular degeneration. What is the the best camera for this sort of visual impairment? I would like it small and simple, but not so small that I can't get a good grip on it and hold it steady, and not so simple that I can't take very good quality macro or zoomed pictures, without a lot of fussing around. the older I get the more difficult everything gets.

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer. As someone else said, you are really in the ranks of a professional. You have given all of us so much pleasure, and if I didn't live on a boat with limited space, I would print some of your pictures to display. Thank you again.

They were all superb, but the butterfly shots are amazing. As usual, I ask , what kind of camera, and how did you take the pics? Were you able to hand hold the camera, or use support.

thank you for the comments.

I do not have photo shop, just use Iphoto tools, and my camera is a Fuji S4000, a not too satisfactory replacement of my S7000, which got drowned. Just never found a simple to use, camera that an old lady with failing eye sight, who still wants really great detail on up close flower pictures and longer scenery shots, but depth of focus like the former camera provided. I know, I know, you are supposed to have a blurred background with only the up close flower in focus, but I don't like that look. These pictures were just shot as if you had a point and shoot, look and click, and i find them pleasing

I liked these, photographed in Old Westbury Gardens on Long Island because of the combination of the stiated pads and the lilies. Still using my Fuji S4000, not as good as my old S7000, which was sharper and simpler to use. Hopeing someday to find a replacement i like better. When I can, I photograph a nameplate, so I will remember what kind of flower it was. Wish there was a way I could title my pictures on the photo fro a permanent reminder.

so more and more amazing flower pictures are being posted but nobody is saying how they do it? Give a dummy like me who loves to photograph flowers a chance, on how to achieve something unique.

How are these amazing pictures being done?