Iris Suite
I have been photographing Irises close-up and personal. Irises are wonderful flowers, and I come back to them quite a bit. With these images, I used a simple setup with…
Fantastic Iris and White Camellia
A great deal of our energy lately has gone into clearing my parents' house to make it ready for sale. This is a thankless task and emotionally very difficult. Fortunately,…
Home, Peonies, and Irises
I've been traveling a month and a day---with x-ray photography, a lovely group in Paris (the after-hours session in Monet's garden at Giverny was probably my favorite part), and a…
Light Box Floral Composition with Sunflowers, Irises, Alstromerias, and Glads
I've been taking advantage of my interlude at home (being at home for me has become increasingly rare in recent years and hence an unexpected pleasure) to photograph flowers on…
Clematis, and tulips, and irises, Oh My!
Exposure data: Photographed on a light box with a Nikon D810, MC-36A remote release, and Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 ZF-mount. Two panels, combined horizontally. Each panel comprised of 7 exposures…
New Iris Macros
I've been having fun with some photography of a kind I haven't done in a while: relatively straight macro photography of flowers. The photography is straightforward (as I explain below),…
Blue Irises for Simplicity
I photographed these beautiful blue irises for simplicity of composition on a light box, then in Photoshop added the background and light texture I used with Peonies mon amour. Related…