Hello, dear friends!
Autumn is truly here with its lacy golden and crimson leaves but that needn’t preempt our desire for roses!
Early in the summer, I had the great fortune to meet up with Dawn, a passionate flower grower in the Skagit Valley an hour north of me, whose beautiful farm, All My Thyme, specializes in David Austin and other sumptuous English garden roses. You can imagine that I was in heaven walking the fields with her and seeing all the varieties she grows. We spent hours discussing the finer points and challenges of so many favorites.
We embarked on a project (not yet complete) to photograph each one, so I began creating these petit bouquets. (The first one above features blooms from my garden and the rest showcase individual varieties from Dawn’s farm.)
Each image was photographed in my studio on a plain, charcoal-colored background. To create the impression of a chalkboard, I used the Chalkboard texture from my friend Shana’s wonderful Florabella texture collection.
In other news, we’ve just returned from a fantastic visit to New York City, where we were greeted by glorious weather and the first hints of autumn color. We stayed here (with a stunning view over the San Remo apartments and Central Park) and ate in fun Upper West side bistros like this one. But mostly we were up (painfully) early to photograph the sunrise in various locations, including Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge. Will be sharing those images here soon.
Wishing you all a very happy and fulfilling week!
Much love,
G
Oh, Georgianna! These are absolutely beautiful!! Just luminous!! I love David Austin roses, too! Do ever feel like so many flowers – so little time?? I keep thinking that I need to dig more garden to grow more varieties but I can barely keep up with what I have, now! ;) Clever you to be friends of flower farmers!!! =D
In other news…. I bought a ‘slab’ of chalkboard a couple of months ago and, just this morning was considering using it. You and Sarah Gardener beat me to it! ;) I could swear it’s adding and extra glow to these flowers. Such a wonderful foil! <3
=) xxo
Oh, typos, typos, typos…. :P But, I’m assuming that you can just figure it out. erp.
The colourful bouquet from your garden is gorgeous, as are the ‘petit bouquets’ of some of the different varieties of roses from All my Thyme. Always love those rose names as well. And I love that chalkboard texture you used. Looking forward to your NY pictures. Must be very special to be up and about very early in NY. Is NY really the ‘city that never sleeps’?
Marian
This grey background is a great contrast to the pale shades of the roses. They’re beautiful Georgianna!
Precious photos, makes me want to fill my garden with them all! Catherine x
Gorgeous photos! I love every single one! I gasped when I first started looking through them :) Always so lovely to visit your blog. It sounds like you had a wonderful trip!
Jennelise xo
So beautiful, gorgeous and stunning photos of those roses!
I almost can smell them… The colours of roses and the backround are perfect together…
Love these photos and these roses so much!
Oh my, these are absolutely gorgeous! So unique but so you…I love how you used the chalkboard texture and thank you always for your support of Florabella. I could look at these all day, sweet friend… just so beautiful! ♥
Hi! You are so very good at photographing flowers :) and so sweet flowers!!
I could have them everywhere …. so beautiful …..
Have a wonderful week!
♥ Linnea
How absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing.
Beauty upon beauty! Both Dawns’ roses and your own are stunning and brilliantly arranged and photographed. What joy you must have in these projects.
Early morning in NYC, sounds amazing – you will have captured something stunning, again.
These are so beautiful and I love the chalkboard background, it gives the images just a little bit of edge.
You must have had a fabulous time in NYC, getting up early to photograph some beautiful sights and eating in great restaurants certainly sounds like the ideal way to spend a day to me.
Have a lovely evening xo
lovely <3
What a beautiful series of images this is, Georgianna, and I love the chalkboard texture.
NYC is my very favorite place to spend time, and I so look forward to seeing the photographs you made there. xo.
Goodness, these are gorgeous! I love David Austin roses…they make me think of peonies. Your trip to New York sure sounds wonderful! I can’t wait to see your photos. xo
Dear Georgianna,
The photos are so very beautiful – love the gorgeous David Austin roses, against the chalkboard.
You have captured them so beautifully, almost seems like you can smell the fragrance.
Happy week
hugs
Carolyn
As always, I gasped when looking at your photos…that chalkboard background is absolute perfection for the delicate flowers. Gorgeous! I look forward to seeing your NYC photos – have a wonderful Wednesday, Georgianna. :)
Dear Georgianna, Absolutely stunning, sensational photographs. No. 4 and 5 are my most favorite. I always look forward to seeing you here in blogland. Have a wonderful week. ox, Gina
Georgianna! So good to see you posting again. The roses are exquisite and I love the background you used along with the texture. You have such amazing style.
Georgianna, as usual your photographs are stunning. I love the use of the trendy chalkboard in a new and interesting way and I love the patina on your board. The entire look is so refreshing and inspiring. The soft pretty colors of the flowers is beautiful against the grey chalkboard. I love how you muted and softened the chalkboard by keeping some of the white chalk on it- the perfect patina for this project.
The roses look fabulous against the grey chalkboard background G. This must have been a pleasurable fragrant shoot. Nothing says romance like an Austin rose.
Judith
Gorgeous bouquets !
Wonderful photos and texture work !
Nice evening,
Sylvia
Oh, what exquisite images, G. They lift my heart.
I love the Upper West Side. And that hotel is fabulous! So looking forward to seeing your images from NYC.
OH G!!!! These are nothing short of HEAVENLY!!!!! What gorgeous roses and the pics – well, no-one compares!!
I love each and every one!! Love you too!!! Hugs – t.
Austin Roses are one of my life greatest love !!
You have to know that since I left such a big town like Genoa for living in the country I’ve been looking for an old house, to restore with outdoor space enough to make a quite big garden . and for having, finally an English Rose garden..
Now I have my rose garden where every year I add some new exemplars (now they’re more than 100) and believe me , I never have enough time to take care of them as I wish .. I love them so much, and they don’t ask for anything.. they do bloom anyway !!
About your pics .. I have no words to express how artistically you caught the real essence of these wonderful flowers ..
With sincere admiration I wish you a lovely weekend ♡
Dany
Brillant idea the grey background and using a texture to look like a blackboard. Thank for sharing that tip. David Austin roses are my favourite, they are so difficult to grow in my sandy soil. Wishing you a blessed weekend. Jen xo
Love the images of the roses, love the colours, love the arrangements, love the background, love the project, love the David Austin roses – that’s all! Brilliant as always!
Have great day!
xoxo Ingrid
Oh love David Austin roses – they are so romantic and it’s wonderful with roses that flowers also in the autumn. Here it’s definitly more autumn than summer now. Soon there will be no leaves on the trees.
Can’t wait to see your photos from NYC Georgianna. I’m going there in less than a month (!). I will be travelling to Canada (Halifax) and Albany for work and will stay a few days in Boston and NYC.
Hope you are having a lovely Sunday. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead. xo
I love the chalkboard texture, and all your images are simply gorgeous, Georgianna. It’s always such a pleasure to visit your blog! xo
Georgianna – these are absolutely exquisite. And your creative style of photographing them brings out all of their beauty.
Best Jane :)
Georgianna – these are absolutely exquisite. And your creative style of photographing them brings out all of their beauty.
Best Jane :)
Most gorgeous roses and fabulous light and presentation with the chalkboard effect! Just stunning, Georgianna, so good for the eyes and soul!
Your images always stun me and leave me smiling and happier than when I stopped by. Hello, friend.
Aaahhh…..so very beautiful! I have some serious stuff to do on this computer, but I felt the need for some beauty to prepare my mind, and you dom’t ever disappoint me – such supremely beautiful roses and the New York light. We have just come back from Europe and our roses here in Australia have been flowering non-stop since we got home, but I cannot possibly grow all the lovelies you have here.
Still, it is lovely to be able to visit and share the soul food you have here. Thankyou Georgianna
With loving thoughts Barb
Simply gorgeous! I bet you had fun sniffing those at the Farm — I would’ve been in Heaven!! I like the way you’ve presented these….cheers!
I hope you will add your chalkboard roses to Pinterest as I would definitely repin them. The photos are gorgeous.