Pretty in Pink
The upper image shows Anemones and Alstromerias ("Peruvian lilies") from my garden, both pink flowers, and if you look carefully, two butterflies as well. I used a slightly modified technique…
Design for a Stained Glass Window Made of Flowers
To create this design for a stained glass window, I started by laying down a series of mallow blossoms in a loose spiral (the magenta flowers). Next, I filled in…
Floral Tondo
Tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular painting. To create my floral tondo, I started with a circular pattern on my light box. I arranged an array of petals---mostly…
My Best of 2014
2014 has been an exciting year for me photographically, from many viewpoints, including the geographic and chronological. When I am not suffering from temporal displacement syndrome (otherwise known as jet…
Flash Craftsy Sale
Photographing Flowers is the acclaimed online Craftsy course with Harold Davis. Sign up with a special 50% off today for yourself or as a gift! ALL Craftsy classes (choose from an…
Floral Abundance
From my garden I cut some Papaver rhoeas, a single Papaver nudicaule, several varieties of Ranunculus, alstromeria in profusion, forget-me-nots, hardenbergia, a lupine, and a few Orlaya grandiflora “Minoan Lace”…
Changes
Since the world is always changing, photography is largely about capturing states of things---scenes, objects, or people---in the process of change. A single image can intimate the before, and the…
Flowers on Ebony and Ivory
I've been photographing flowers for transparency the last few days, and processing them to appear on black and white backgrounds. The trick here is lighting, photography, and Photoshop: so three…