Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Beautiful

This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

How lucky is this shot! Though the one in flight isn't crystal clear, I was elated that I got this neat image!! This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

the Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, perennial plant native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia. There are at least 36 species, some which grow up to 10 meters tall! Dahlia hybrids, of which there are countless types, are commonly grown as garden plants. The Aztecs gathered and cultivated the dahlia for food, ceremonies, as well as decorative purposes, and the long woody stem of one variety was used for small pipes. Dahlias are used as food plants by the larvae of some moths and butterflies, and are a favorite nectar source of bees. The dahlia is named after Swedish 18th-century botanist Anders Dahl.[5] In German the dahlia was known during most of the 19th century as Georgia, being named after the naturalist Johann Gottlieb Georgi of St. Petersburg, Russia. (Info from Wiki) If you would like to know more about dahlias, please visit this Wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

(for those of you who are interested in seeing my San Francisco trip images, I have uploaded 10 pictures in this batch [88 in the past couple of weeks]. Thanks everyone for your comments and your visits to my photostream! I hope you enjoy the show!) This is the first of many pictures I took at the Conservatory of Flower's jaw-dropping Dahlia Garden. Never in my entire life have I ever seen such an enormous garden of absolutely perfect flowers! My friend Laura spotted them and in the end, she had to drag me away, kicking and screaming the whole way! There were dozens upon dozens of varieties to drool at, and I could have spent the whole day taking pictures of these intensely beautiful flowers. In the following days, you'll see lots of dahlia images sprinkled throughout my San Francisco: Golden Gate Park images...I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them! By the way, for those of you who may not know, there is a very fun, free Flickr competition site which you might like to take part in. It's called FlickrDuel and features dozens of ongoing competitions, or duels every day. You can enter your pictures into many different categories and vote on contests too. It's another way to enjoy your photography! This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.

Many of these beautiful flowers are so large that it was easy to fill the frame with a juicy, face-filling close up of utter beauty! :) This image was taken during my trip to San Francisco during September 12-15, 2011.