Links – May 17, 2013

By Pattyhankins @PattyHankins

 Chinese Five Color Peppers (c) 2010 Patty Hankins

Here are some posts and articles that I enjoyed this week; I hope you enjoy them as well

Flower and Plant Links

The Christian Science Monitor has Meet the floating plant that has Lake Victoria’s economy in a chokehold

Beautiful Wildlife Garden has Tried and True Native Perennials for Sun – SE Edition

Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens has Tried and True Native Perennials for Shade – SE Edition

National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links

National Parks Traveler has Saguaro Cacti Tagged By Vandals At Saguaro National Park

Wildlife Links

Beautiful Wildlife Garden has What to Know About Attracting Native Bees

Photography and Art Links

A Photo Editor has Kickstarter Campaign Makes Art Off Images Found Online

PPA has New Copyright Law in the Works

The Luminous Landscape has Adobe Moves The Creative Suite to The Cloud Who Wins, Who Loses?

The Copyright Zone has It Ain’t Over Till Its Over and This One Ain’t Over

Dan Williams Bird Photography has Looking Beyond the Target Image and Mass Appeal in Your Photos

Light Stalking has How to Challenge Yourself To Be A Better Photographer

FStoppers has Stop Selling Yourself to Photographers

ABC News has Enhanced Reality: Exploring the Boundaries of Photo Editing

DC Area Flower Safari

If you are in the DC area, I hope you will join me and other flower lovers at our DC Flower Safari Meetups. The next Meetup is scheduled for Sunday, June 2nd at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton MD

Tentative plan for Sunday June 2-  we’re heading back to Brookside Gardens – unless we come up with a better location before then. But in the meantime – getting the meetup on the calendar

No clue what will be in bloom – but I’m sure it will be wonderful.

We’ll meet at 7 AM in the parking lot by the Conservatory – photograph until 9:00 – and head to Panera on Connecticut Ave.