I photographed this Helichrysum bracteatum (strawflower) blossom on my light box (far below), then inverted the image in LAB Color, and converted to monochromatic (directly below). I'm headed tomorrow to…
It's fun to use flowers to create animistic shapes on the light box, like good-luck dragons and this "Butter-flower" shown below.
As summer becomes full and the days of July rush by, the dahlias are in bloom. Each dalia is different, a unique world unto itself. Some of them remind me…
Over my garden gate, the Clematis vine is thriving, provided we keep its "feet" moist. Two of the Clematis flowers bloomed together, and I cropped them to make this composition…
In the pre-dawn cool I walked around the house and down to our dahlia bed in the side yard. There was one perfect white blossom. I cropped it, and placed…
We'll be holding a full weekend Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop Saturday August 6 - Sunday August 7, 2022 here on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. This…
Phyllis brought a Phalaenopsis ("moth orchid") home for a short visit to our sunny living room. Leaving the orchid in its decorative pot, I photographed the blossoms using a vertical…
I cut a stalk of Campanulas ("Canterbury Bells") from the garden. I laid the bunch gently on my light box for a sequence of high-key captures (below). Often, photography of…
I've been experimenting with creating images that look a little like a wall of flowers one might see at a florist shop. From a set design viewpoint, an important challenge…
As an archetype, "James Bond" is deeply embedded for better and worse somewhere not far below the surface of cis-Males of my generation. But what if James Bond had liked…
Here's another take on that wonderfully graphic flower subject, the Calla Lily.
I've been working on photographing a group of white Calla Lilies the past few days. With this image, I tried to abstract the flower so that it seemed almost like…
I remember when I lived in colder climates seeing the daffodils, green shoots with a yellow blossom, push their way through the frozen ground. So for me, daffodils will always…
Flowers for Miss Havisham (below) completes the quartet of four images begun with Earthly Delights, and continued with Aging in Place and Remembrance.
The flowers remember when they were young. The easy, sensuous unfurling of Earthly Delights is long past. With Aging in Place the grace of youth is gone, but joy and…
For this week's interior views of flowers, I used my macro probe lens placed inside the outer petals of the floral blossom. The upper image of a tulip is lit…
I left my arrangement of tulips, iris, and daffodils on its black velvet stage. Several days later, the bouquet had aged in place. It was still beautiful, but in a…
My first love in art was color. It took me years to appreciate monochrome. As a (relatively and sometimes) mature artist, I understand that black and white lays open the…