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I spent an hour on a Saturday wandering the Philbrook museum gardens for textures to photograph. I posted them in large size to Flickr for free use in adding textures to your photography or web design. Link to Italian Garden Photo Textures.

This purple leaf is one of my favorites textures of the day.

In May, the Tulsa Digital Photography Meetup group went to the Tulsa’s Blue Dome Art Festival around First and Elgin in downtown Tulsa. The goal of this meetup was to photograph strangers which is something that I had never attempted before outside of sports.

I was nervous for the first few people that I asked but everyone was very friendly and no one said no.

Here are a few of the photos of strangers that I took.

The tie dye family who sells Tie-Dye t-Shirts.

Tie Dye Family

These people are not strangers since they are in the meetup group, but I could not pass up the opportunity to take a portrait framed with the hula hoops.

My favorite photo of the day did not include strangers. It was a simple, but colorful detail of the Tie Dye T-Shirts which is the lead image in this post.

There was another meetup in May for the Tulsa Digital Photography Meetup group. This one was in downtown Tulsa and featured several models. There were five strobist stations set up for people to learn how to shoot with off camera flash. Here is a description of my strobist kit which was used for the photo station at the top of the stairs.

The photo shoot was featured in the Tulsa World including this video:

Tulsa Digital Photographers from on Vimeo.

More of my photos:

Another recent Tulsa Digital Photography meetup was at the Tulsa Garden Center. I spent about 45 minutes in the greenhouse taking pictures of the orchids and other flowers.

There were yellow orchids…

… and white orchids.

And more while orchids and some that…

…were purple and white.

There were also some cactus and lilies.

At the Tulsa Digital Photography Meetup where I took the orchid photos, we also went to the Linnaeus Teaching Gardens and generally around Woodward Park.

These blossoms were not far from 21st street.

The Woodward Park herb garden:

There is a statue of Linnaeus at the entrance to the Gardens. This is a detail of his hand holding flowers:

This is a small oriental statue in the Linnaeus Teaching Gardens:

The Tulsa Digital Photography Meetup group went to the Philbrook museum in March 2009.  The assignment for the day was to turn the camera on B&W and look for textures rather than color.  Here were some of my photos for the day: