Most photographers have bucket lists of things they'd like to photograph before they die. Flowering quince---because of the lushness of the blossoms contrasted with the sparseness of the stems--has long…
I've had a little time lately to shoot more flowers on white. These two floral arrangements feature orchids---buying them for photography seemed a little expensive at the time, but in…
Cherry Dance is manifestly a digital art creation. This collage combines a photo of blossoms on a cherry branch with two flat-bed scans of paper---using Photoshop to create a whole that resembles…
To create these images, I arranged flowers on a lightbox that was proportionally much wider than it was tall. Next, I shot straight down with a macro lens, bracketing for…
The Paperwhite, Narcissus papyraceus, is a small white flower related to the Daffodil. Grown from a bulb, the plant is originally from the Mediterranean basin. It's commonly thought of as…
My image, Intricate Detail of Nature's Perfection (shown above), was a winner in the 2011 North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) contest. Today (October 24, 2011) Intricate Detail graces the…
Possibly I am obsessed. The same set of shooting and post-production techniques that work to make imagery of glassware look something like antique drawings also work on ferns and seed…
How fine it is to take advantage of a light rain, and photograph waterdrops caught in a spider web! A small, delicate flower, an anemone, is behind the web and…
Just a brief note to say that Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis, published by Focal Press, is now shipping and available from Amazon and Barnes & Nobles.…
This is a panel in a "floral tapestry"---shot in several pieces using a lightbox as the background, then stitched together as a panorama. Related image and story: Making a Floral…
Go van Gogh is an unusual image of a sunflower in the swirling style of Vincent van Gogh presented against a starry night sky. The image makes a great large…
This is a floral HDR panorama, meaning I shot it in two horizontal pieces planning to stitch the pieces together. The logistics of this were somewhat complex---as with any HDR…
Briefly noted: Photographing this mallow blossom unfurling, I was reminded of fabric. Ignoring issues of scale and context, this flower could be the bottom portion of an elaborate and stylish…
I am very excited that a number of my pieces in the style of this image of Papaver somniferum have been accepted into the publishing program at the World Art…
In a previous story, I noted the importance of looking behind one. Commentators added the great suggestions of looking up and down as well. A corollary to having the kind…
I enjoyed photographing these flowers in a green vase as much for rendering the textures and colors of the vase and table as the flowers! The vase contains safflowers and…
I shot this orchid on our front porch using a wood log as the background. It was late afternoon---or early evening---and I shot the flowers in deep shade. As I…
This image is from a demonstration in Photographing Flowers about how to recreate Vincent van Gogh sunflowers. In Photoshop, starting with a pretty normal photo of a sunflower on a…