Look at the beautifully photographed white Columbine above. Mrs. PR got it perfectly right, with the most focused bloom precisely placed in the upper left third. But then, as in the second photo, she incorporated depth of field with the same subject, placing the columbine in perspective against the house and cloudy sky behind it.
A few steps back, a shift of a few degrees, and yet another view echoing the first, but a different subject, this time the 'Batik' irises filling the foreground, framed between the evergreen to the right and the distant River Birch to the left. She resisted posting the 'Batik' head-on, but instead showed off its abundance, its proliferative nature at bloom time. I was impressed as well by the framing between the evergreen to the right and the distant River Birch to the leftHere, another example of photographic value of thirds, this nice double-flowered purple columbine, it's unblemished foliage in the lower left third balanced by the out-of-focused green foliage in the upper right and contrasted against the bright flowers on the left of center. The grounding weight of the columbine foliage at the base of the photo is almost palpable.
Gaze for a moment on the perfect pinkness of this 'Scarlett O'Hara' peony in silhouette, all life and color among the healthy green foliage. Since 'Scarlett O'Hara blooms early and brazenly, I refer to her as Scarlett the Harlot and so I might title this "Silhouette of the Harlot". Titles are fleeting, but beauty eternal.
We might have had to admonish Mrs. ProfessorRoush this lapse into the "Oh, Wow" centered composition of my massive and spreading 'Harison's Yellow.' In her defense it is difficult to ignore the sheer floriferousness and vivid yellow of this Hybrid Spinosissima when she's in full bloom. But even here, as you can see in the photo below, Mrs. ProfessorRoush suddenly redeemed her artwork, stepping back to use the 'Harison's Yellow' as a mere color spot in the line of the bed connecting with the Cottonwood of the background, framed within the confines of the nearer Purple Smoke Tree to the left and the American Elm to the right. Bravo! Belisima! Magnifica! Mrs. ProfessorRoush!
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