Flowers or Sea Creatures on Earth Day
Today is Earth Day 2021, and I present some close-up photographs of flowers. These are images of the core of a poppy (Papaver hybridium), but looked at as abstract forms…
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April 22, 2021
Corn Poppy
Sometimes when I photograph a broad composition on my light box I take a break when my primary composition is done. I leave my camera on the tripod. Then after…
April 21, 2021
Peonies mon amour
This is a version of my Peonies mon amour image with a little space added above the upper flower at the request of the art director at a licensing client.
March 10, 2021
Petals on Parade
These two "petal-pushing" images start with a composition of alstroemeria petals, photographed for high-key HDR on a light box. The image with a black background (shown above) is an LAB…
January 22, 2021
Piles of Petals Are Performative
Piles of flower petals are performative (and alliterative). I've fallen into the habit of keeping piles of natural objects, specifically bowls of flower petals in my work area. Gradually, they…
December 16, 2020
Sunflowers on Blue Velvet
It's nice to pair a bouquet of yellow sunflowers with lush, blue velvet. The sunflower petals have been touched slightly with the Photoshop Oil Painting filter to add a little…
December 4, 2020
Dahlia. Just Dahlia. Dahlia, darling!
Here are three version of a light box image of a white dahlia from my cutting garden, photographed back in June. The simple monochromatic conversion is shown on top. Next,…
November 2, 2020
New Light Box Work
Happy to have fun playing with flowers on my light box. These recent compositions are partly made from"store bought" flowers, and partly from my garden's flowers. We're beginning to enter…
October 30, 2020
Up Close and Personal Flowers
For me, photographing flowers is a form of worship, and a way to be in touch with my own spirituality. This has ed to fairly straightforward photography. I use (carefully…
October 28, 2020
X-Ray Bouquet
The upper photo is an X-Ray of a bouquet of dahlias, nemesia, and kangaroo paw flowers. It was made in May, 2019 using medical x-ray equipment, and processed yesterday while…
August 20, 2020
Dried Blossoms
I arranged these dried blossoms on my light box in a pattern with an eye towards complementary colors. The background blue blossoms are Nemesias. interlaced with almost-orange-yellow Gaillardia petals, and…
August 17, 2020
Dahlia Solos
My Dahlia bed is starting to bloom, providing some very sweet subjects for solo flower portraits!
August 12, 2020
Flowers from Our Pandemic Garden
It was great fun yesterday to construct and photograph this light box composition. The dahlias are the first from my new dahlia raised bed on the southwest side of the…
August 3, 2020
Print Sold: Sunflower X-Ray
Here's a snapshot of a recently sold print of my black & white Sunflower X-Ray, hand printed on Moab Juniper Baryta paper. The border of the print looks a bit…
July 14, 2020
Misty Mountain Dahlias
It is funny how close and closer a flower, such as a Dahlia, can take on abstract appearance so the original flower shape becomes forgotten. So in this Dahlia I…
July 11, 2020
Honeysuckle and Monarda
Sometimes single blossoms are the most elegant. This Honeysuckle (above) and Monarda (below) are from our garden. I photographed the blossoms on a light box, and other than layering-in bracketed…
July 7, 2020
The Making of Creative Garden Photography | Free Webinar
Our new book Creative Garden Photography has been at least ten years in the making from conception to finished production files. In this free webinar, on Sunday July 5, 2020 at…
June 29, 2020
By Twos and Threes
Sometimes my flowers come all in a group with no social distancing at all. Other times, my flowers come in twos and threes. Which do you like better?
May 25, 2020