By way of background, check out Poppy Dancer and All Along the Watchtowers and the Papapver pod bouquet in Recent Images. Looking at the close-up of the top of a…
Lately, I've been photographing poppy pods, dried poppies from our garden. In a few instances, these remains-of-the-day poppies look like fantastic figurines, as in Poppy Dancer, immediately below. For me,…
I'm pleased with my images from the last week or so, and am having trouble keeping up with my photography in post-production, and also as a blogger. But here are…
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For this image, I framed essentially a portrait view of the mallow (upper left) and the poppy (along the right, purple and red). For some reason, the Save the Last…
Often when I am through with the primary photography in a light box design, I continue to experiment by adding lines, weaving botanicals, getting closer, and anything else that is…
My inspection inside blossoms continues on from the Foxglove (Digitalis) to a beautiful, crimson Hollyhock (Alcea rosea) blossom.
The Matilija Poppy (Romneya coulteri) is native to California, with a range from Mexico through northern California. This is a drought tolerant species that can be somewhat invasive once established---but,…
It's hard not to fall in love with a poppy like this Papaver rhoeas 'Falling in Love' (a kind of "corn poppy" using the common term). Click here for more…
With the poppies (Papavers) blooming like crazy in our garden, I am sure the right thing to do is to "carpe Papaver." In fact, photographically speaking---and perhaps in life as…
Digitalis purpurea is commonly called the Foxglove, I suppose because a fox could slip the flowers on its fingers, at least in fairy land. In fact, the flower is long…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…