Like many things in life, you just need to be there when it happens. So it is to photograph flowering plants that sprout in the spring. Other plants are compelling for their leaf structure or the environment in which they’re found.

 

Leaves of a bush, early Fall. Prospect Park.

Leaves of a bush, early Fall. Prospect Park.

Spring daffodils by decayed wood.  Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Spring daffodils by decayed wood. Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Long, neatly trimmed hedge next to textured field of plants/grass. Brooklyn Botanical Garden.

Long, neatly trimmed hedge next to textured field of plants/grass. Brooklyn Botanical Garden.

Flowering tree.  Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Flowering tree. Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

 

Canola (rape seed) side profile.  Also shows the stubble of the previous years’ crop and thistles in the foreground. Southwest North Dakota.

Canola (rape seed) side profile. Also shows the stubble of the previous years’ crop and thistles in the foreground. Southwest North Dakota.

 

Niagara Falls Botanical Garden, Canada.

Niagara Falls Botanical Garden, Canada.