Dahlia Solos
My Dahlia bed is starting to bloom, providing some very sweet subjects for solo flower portraits!
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August 12, 2020
Flowers from Our Pandemic Garden
It was great fun yesterday to construct and photograph this light box composition. The dahlias are the first from my new dahlia raised bed on the southwest side of the…
August 3, 2020
Print Sold: Sunflower X-Ray
Here's a snapshot of a recently sold print of my black & white Sunflower X-Ray, hand printed on Moab Juniper Baryta paper. The border of the print looks a bit…
July 14, 2020
Misty Mountain Dahlias
It is funny how close and closer a flower, such as a Dahlia, can take on abstract appearance so the original flower shape becomes forgotten. So in this Dahlia I…
July 11, 2020
Honeysuckle and Monarda
Sometimes single blossoms are the most elegant. This Honeysuckle (above) and Monarda (below) are from our garden. I photographed the blossoms on a light box, and other than layering-in bracketed…
July 7, 2020
The Making of Creative Garden Photography | Free Webinar
Our new book Creative Garden Photography has been at least ten years in the making from conception to finished production files. In this free webinar, on Sunday July 5, 2020 at…
June 29, 2020
By Twos and Threes
Sometimes my flowers come all in a group with no social distancing at all. Other times, my flowers come in twos and threes. Which do you like better?
May 25, 2020
Cactus Flowers
Down a few blocks, and around the corner, some wonderful cactus flowers bloomed in a pot on the street. Walking with one of my sons we passed the flowers in…
May 25, 2020
Red Poppy
All the richness and wealth in the world cannot compare with the worth and beauty at the core of a single flower, and how the flower makes me feel!
May 17, 2020
Birds of Paradise in a Glass Vase
Yesterday I photographed five Birds of Paradise flowers (Strelitzia reginae, a plant closely related to the banana incidentally) from our garden on a light box. Specifically, the flowers were upright…
May 14, 2020
Photographing Flowers at Home
So I am sheltering in place at home, like many (or most) of us. In some alternative universe, my travel plans have proceeded, well, according to plan---and I would be…
April 22, 2020
Spring of our Discontent
This is the spring of our discontent. Or at least the spring of isolating in place. As long as we are on Shakespeare near-quotations, "Sweet are the uses of adversity…
April 6, 2020
Flower Power
Flower Power. It's hip to be square---as in the floral carpet image (below). Making space for conversations with flowers (middle image on white, bottom image an LAB L-channel inversion on…
March 14, 2020
Tulips like Stained Glass
I got these tulips when they were nearly unopened, sourced from a local organic farm (the same place my anemone models came from a while back). After a while, the…
February 1, 2020
Orange Rose
Starting the new year right, I took my time with a bouquet of orange and white roses, first photographing a white rose close up for differential focus. Next, I made…
January 12, 2020
White Rose
When I saw this white rose, I wanted to contrast the spiral center with its clear delineations and the softness of the outer petals. I used a Lensbaby 85mm Velvet,…
January 7, 2020
First Flowers of the Decade
First and foremost, we enjoyed the pale orange and white roses with the coming of the New Year. Next, I photographed petals close-up (these are still to come as I…
January 4, 2020
Double Mandala
A mandala as wreath is nice, and more so with a starfish. So, why not twice as nice? Hence this Double Mandala.
December 21, 2019