Beautiful Flower Photography

Identify the Beautiful Flowers You Photograph

I’m not a botanist, so when it comes time to label my flower photographs, I’m often at a loss to know what kind of flowers I’ve shot.  Searches for flower identification often bring up photo indexes that are ordered by scientifc name that are impossible to use if you don’t have any idea what something is.  If you’re in the same predicament, here are three ways I’ve managed to correctly identify the many beautiful flowers in my collection.

If I have some idea of what a flower is called, I will simply do a Google image search for what I think it is called and see if the pictures match.  This has been an effective way for me to identify some of the more common varieties.

If I’m looking at photographs of garden flowers, I often turn to one of the online seed or bulb catalogs, like Gurney’s Seed and Nursery or Breck’s.  These sites have lots of photographs and are easy to browse.

More often than not I have no idea what a flower is called.  My favorite place to turn in these situations is Wildflowers West.  This website has information on hundreds of wildflowers.  Instead of being organized by name, the images are grouped by color, so it is just a matter of browsing through the photos to find the right one.

I would love to hear about your favorite flower photograph identification methods or sources!

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Oregon Coast Wildflowers – Clover

I’m pretty sure these pretty flowers are clover, possibly Coast Clover (also known as Cow Clover).  I photographed these growing in clumps in the rocks along the trail at Devil’s Churn.

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Oregon Coast Wildflowers – Birdfoot Deervetch

I’m not sure, but I think these beautiful wildflowers are Bird’s-foot Trefoils, a.k.a. Birdfoot Deervetch.  I found them growing in large clumps near Agate Beach.  Enjoy!

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Wildflowers on the Oregon Coast

We drove up to Oregon and Washington for our summer trip this year.  Along the way we found lots of beautiful flowers, so of course I had to photograph them!  I’ll post my favorites over the next few weeks.

I’m not sure what these white flowers are – they resemble several kinds of wild rose.  And the bees were huge and very busy.

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