The other day I set out to create a mandala using flower petals on my light box. The mandala uses petals that I plucked from alstroemeria, with the center formed…
I had great fun yesterday photographing a rose in my garden after an overnight shower. In the morning, the rose had wonderful, small water drops on its petals. I used…
The Split Rock Plant (Pleiospilos nelli) looks for all the world like it is made of small stones, each one dabbed with dots (see the black and white images at…
The Gazania, commonly known as the African Daisy, is a highly heliotropic flower. This means that it opens in direct sunshine, and closes back up in the evening (or on…
Yesterday I decided that my Serpentine Sunflower (Helianthus bolanderi) was getting a bit "long in the tooth" (insert favorite joke about serpents and teeth here). Indoors, I deconstructed the sunflower…
Noted photographer and botanical artist Harold Davis shares a visit with his garden. This is the garden that he uses as source material for many of his light box images…
I am traveling in Japan through the end of the month, and by the time I get back most of the poppies in my garden will have bloomed and faded.…
The poppies I planted in my garden in the autumn are blooming wonderfully. I've been enjoying photographing them, this year focusing on the core of the flower. The first image…
Chicken egg. Chicken egg. Egg chicken. Egg chicken. I am often asked which came first, the gardening or the flower photography. I think the answer is neither: it started for…
Why, you might ask, did I photograph this white camellia blossom in a white dish on a black background in color rather than in black and white? Great question! These…
Hellebores are small shade plants in the Ranunculus family. You may have to get down on the ground to view this gorgeous perennial, which blooms early in the spring. While…
As the tulips settled into my arrangement in the vase they reached out, curved, and seemed to combine the wisdom of aging with continued vitality. Not quite an arrangement featuring…
Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. From its origins in Kyoto more than a millenia ago, this is an art form that has evolved within a formal tradition…
As many of you know, I love to create mandalas on my light box using flowers. The idea behind Solar Rotation Mandala was to create a "solar system" circling the central…
Both images were photographed just now in my garden on the summer solstice, with the sun just setting below the horizon. I used my Leica M11 Monochrom with the Novoflex…
I've talked---and written---about designing a structure behind an apparently free-form image. With flower photography on a light box, possible forms this structure can take include a bouquet, a garden patch…
Mostly the irises in my garden have already bloomed for the year. But this one is an exception! And exceptional! I love the textures and folds in this wonderful flower.…
How wonderful to come home to my garden in full bloom! Ah, but the flowers are almost overwhelming...so much color, so much growth. I am greeted by hummingbirds. They hover…