Figure 1 – White Hydrangea tone-on-tone, Sudbury, MA, July 2019. (c) DE Wolf 2019.

We have reached the hottest time of year. Invariably, July brings with it a heat wave, and this gets worse and worse each year. It is the same global warming that is stirring up tornadoes in the Midwest and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. But it has been a marvelous year in the  North East for hydrangeas, and the white ones have given me the opportunity to explore once more the lacy, delicate quality of white tone-on-tone.

Figure 1 was taken in my garden today, so far the hottest day of summer. I used my iPhone Xmax my close-up camera of choice. I stopped being lazzy and did the processing, pure black and white (not toned) in Adobe Photoshop.