Cotton Candy Pink Azaleas
by Lois Bryan
Title
Cotton Candy Pink Azaleas
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Photograph - Photography / Digital Art
Description
A sweet cotton-candy colored profusion of pink azalea blossoms captured at the Brighton Azalea Gardens in Montgomery County, Maryland. Situated on the banks of the Patuxent River, by Brighton Dam (built in 1942), the 5 acre garden has over 20,000 azaleas. Best time to visit is usually near the weekend of Mother's Day, and, to avoid the crowds, go during the week, rather than on Mother's Day itself.
An interesting bit of info about azaleas, which I certainly didn't know, is that in addition to being renowned for its beauty, the Azalea is also highly toxic - it contains andromedotoxins in both its leaves and nectar, including honey from the nectar. The Azalea and Rhododendron were once so infamous for their toxicity that to receive a bouquet of their flowers in a black vase was a well-known death threat. My thanks to Wikipedia for that information.
I'm quite certain the wild deer who frequent the "Bryan Buffet" in our front yard are unaware of the toxicity of azaleas, too. We now have Bonsai Azaleas ... and not by choice.
Original photographic image captured with the Nikon D300 and 18-200mm vr Nikkor lens, then treated to adjustments in Photoshop and completely digitally hand-painted in Corel Painter 2015.
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March 12th, 2015
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Comments (38)
Ginger Wakem
These gorgeous sweet flowers seem to come from another era completely! My imagination goes wild thinking of the many places a wonderful photograph like this could hang! Well Done Lois!
Maggie Terlecki
Oh, Lois, as soon as I saw this, without even knowing who took it, I knew it was yours. It has that special 'Lois' feel to it, and I was so pleased to see I was right. There is a joy and an abandon that you leave as your trademark. Beautiful work. Congratulations, on your feature in the Gallery Wall this month as it also honors Breast Cancer Awareness. :-) Maggie
CJ Anderson
Congratulations, Lois! Your beautiful photograph was selected to be exhibited on the homepage of THE GALLERY WALL where our theme this month is PINK to honor BREAST CANCER AWARENESS in October.
Connie Handscomb
Springtime blooms that I love .. {despite their toxicity; I've been reading up quite a lot lately on a surprisingly large number of 'common' blooms that are toxic, if we only knew ... now I will add the azalea to my list} ; this soft pastel peach is gorgeous; )))
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Randy Rosenberger
It is an honor and a privilege as an administrator of one of the top groups on FAA, our Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group, to promote and highlight your awesome artworks on our homepage in one of the prestigious positions, on our group Featuring HOMEPAGE! Your artworks show your love of what you do, and is refined to where we not only accept and promote your fine works, but welcome that opportunity. It is a pleasure to have you as a member of our family of friends and fine artists in the WFS group. Thanks for sharing! LIKED and FAVED Forever, Elvis