Epcot Flower & Garden

Here's a place to put your photos from the Epcot Flower & Garden Festival that aren't attraction- or country-specific.

Tinker Bell's butterfly garden is always a great place to spend some time. I may need to rent a macro lens for my next visit. This is a white peacock butterfly.


Thinking of spring

 

The message on the bottom of this sign was nice touch during the festival.


Stop and smell

 

A couple of shills for last year's Disneynature movie.

Bearing it all

 

Don't stick your hand out, and, most importantly, don't smile!


Don't smile

 

I was so intently concentrating on getting the flowers in this shot that I forgot to wait for a monorail to enhance the background.


Springtime in Epcot

 

Remember my first post in this thread, where I mentioned renting a macro lens for my next trip to the Flower & Garden Festival? Well, thanks to our friends at Kingdom Camera Rentals, I did just that. Equipped with the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 Micro, my first stop was the butterfly garden. Here's another white peacock butterfly, up close and personal. As you can see, the depth of field is pretty shallow, but the details are pretty sharp. I'd like to play with the lens some more to learn its characteristics, then try again next year.


Macro peacock

 

Here's another shot with the Nikon macro lens. I found this member of the It's Tough to be a Bug chorus between Innoventions East and Imagination.


We're pollinators!

 

Thanks, Dave. Using that lens was definitely a learning experience.

 

A Common Buckeye, but kind of pretty for something so "common."


Uncommonly common

 

Elsa showing she's a queen for all seasons.


The heat never bothered me anyway

 

Very nice @ddindy

 

Sometimes identifying butterflies is just too easy.


Look, It's Me!

 

Flower & Garden 2016 opened this week. To celebrate, here's a shot from the main topary display from 2013.


Grilling at Night

 

Sure the "big" festival gets all the press, but the little festival in Germany is still a fun place to hang out. They have topiaries and everything!


Drawing a Small Crowd

 

I love F&G.... SUBSTANTIALLY more than F&W. Hoping to get there on Saturday 4/16 for the one day to do some photograment. We are making an unexpected trip to FLA to tend to a family matter and I will be on kiddo patrol for a few days so we might be hitting Harry Potter and Epcot while there...