Images Copyright Van Swearingen All Rights Reserved.
Usage outside Flickr requires advance permission, except that my public images may be used for blog entries via the Blog This button.
I have been known to make original size images available to non-profit and non-commercial entities on request at no charge.
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Comments on my photostream containing sparkly or twirly animated graphics will be deleted immediately so as not to offend, um, me :-)
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I'm a garden and plant nut so my public photos will be mostly of flowers and plants.
What's catching my eye on the 'net? Browse my delicious bookmarks and see.
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GROUP ADMINISTRATION:
Co-admin:
FLOWERS Flowers only. Flowers all the time.
Orchids - Photos of Orchid flowers and plants. Bonus points for IDs.
Secret Life of Plants - These are images that reveal something not obviously noticed about a plant.
Roses - All your photos of beautiful rose plants and flowers.
Apocynaceae - plants and flowers. Pachypodium, Hoya, Stapelia, etc.
Initiated & co-admin:
Conservatory - greenhouses, glasshouses, atria, terraria, etc.
Garden Follies - Garden follies (ruins, chinoiserie, grottoes, etc.), ha-has, landscape ornaments, gazing balls, pink plastic flamingos ("PPFs"), garden fountains, birdbaths, statuary, etc.
Gesneriads - African Violets, Sinningia, Streptocarpus, Columnea (lipstick plant), etc.
Ikebana - 生花 Flowers, arranged.
Peonies - need some yellows though, too many pink.
Waterlily - Waterlily (Nymphaea) and Lotus (Nelumbo). Plants and blossoms!
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- Snapfish 27 photos, 183 members
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- THE WONDER OF THE SINGLE LAYER STENCIL 3271 photos, 1031 members
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- Orchid Shows in Southern California 249 photos, 15 members
- Gothic Flower Garden P1/C2 756 photos, 200 members
- Hoyas 3442 photos, 177 members
- Wallpaper Minimalism 923 photos, 333 members
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- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 30 photos, 5 members
- Hawaiian Native Biota 1044 photos, 40 members
- Jewel Orchids 137 photos, 37 members
- Ibiscus (Comment 1) 5650 photos, 865 members
- Orchid Society of Southern California 944 photos, 47 members
- Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden Official Group 350 photos, 81 members
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Testimonials (4)
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chrissie2003 says:
"Van takes really wonderful flower pics.
I especially enjoy the orchid photos after he has been to an orchid show. A much appreciated co-admin of the popular FLOWERS group ... ' good on yah, Van ' Yours in friendship, Chrissie"12th July, 2006
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petrichor says:
"Van's photo's are great. It's a simple way to start a testimonial - but it's true.
He could, I suspect, make the most humble leaf, look very grand indeed! I very much enjoy browsing his photostream and I'm sure most botanically minded folk could lose track of time in here.
The unusual or the unnoticed come to life in these photos!"18th April, 2006
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Plurp says:
"There were flowers. Flowers everywhere. He couldn't sleep, so strong was their sickly sweetness, like two handfuls of buds shoved down his throat, like four pounds of pollen in a black leather hood."
1st March, 2006
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Bumblebee says:
"Van's photos are superb! He has the eye of an artist combined with the mind of a botanist and the soul of a gardener. I always know I'll find a favorite or two (or more!) when I visit his pages."
4th October, 2005
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