If you follow my work, you probably have figured out that both this blog and my Flickr photostream reflect current projects. For example, if you see a great deal of landsape imagery, I am probably working on a landscape book.

Floral imagery such as the one in this story, Papaver and Iridaceae, White Iris, Floral Impressionismo, and Floral Abundance are likely to suggest that I am working on a project involving flower photography—as indeed I am, with a beautiful and informative book about flowers and flower photography expected in time for Christmas.

This is partly by way of blogger’s apology because I am having so much fun photographing flowers that my blogging time has eroded a bit lately. It’s fun developing new techniques for capturing flowers—an elusive, senuous and beautiful subject even when (as with the Matilija Poppies shown here) they are essentially growing wild on a strip between the sidewalk and a major thoroughfare.