Catching up... Again.

So, in all the craziness of moving in to my new dorm at DU, I have not posted in quite a while now... So, here's hoping that a few extra pictures will make up for the lack of them otherwise. They all come from the Botanic Gardens, and I figured I would post a bunch here, considering my flickr account wouldn't allow for this many pictures plus all of the ones from the Art Museum.

I love this picture... This purple flower is so eerie, yet so elegant. It appeared very gothic to me. Needless to say, I found it interesting to photograph.

Black and white seemed to work for this picture, although the color version is equally appealing. These are all grapevines, and I truly felt like we were walking through an Italian villa as we were wandering there.

This is another of the grapevine's leaves. I thought it looked like a butterfly, and that that might be pretty interesting to depict! Plus, I love the lighting... The wood is dark, but the leaf itself is lit up.

This is a picture of those same grapevines, but with the camera facing upwards towards the sky. I loved the elegant spiral that the central stalk made.

This is one of my favorite pictures of the day... Just a close up, upwards-facing view of a typical tree, yet the black and white gives it an ominous, eerie feeling... Making the typical, pleasant sight of a tree rather intimidating.

I have always loved wheat plants (considering half my family comes from Kansas!) so I love the gentleness of its movements and the goldness of its plants. This picture also caught touches of green underneath, which I like.

This pathway was in the Japanese tranquility garden. The rocks themselves were a piece of artwork, yet one as natural as the art found in a river or ocean... The rocks are separate yet flow together, all making a sense of order within chaos.

This was another lucky shot... I love how the yellowish rock underneath the main waterfall looks as though it is lit. Pure luck, once again.

As I've now discovered, Roddy loves the effect of light on all of his subjects... Much as I did in this picture. The soft, broken light on the center branch was cast by a small stream.

Again, as Roddy says, light is crucial. And in this instance, light was fascinating. It made a checkboard pattern across this sun area and showed an interesting effect on the wood.

This was the best shot I could get of this dragonfly. I loved that this picture could show so many colors... Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and black, plus touches of others.

Again, I loved the colors here... The lily has such a crisp pink that I couldn't resist taking a picture.

This is the same dragonfly from before, but with the reflection and texture of water behind it. I have no idea why the water turned out like it did, but I liked it!

This little girl was so cute... Once again, I couldn't resist a photograph.

This one was taken at DU on our second night here. Roddy had been emphasizing the importance of light, and this situation seemed to embody just that perfectly to me!