Playing with Lilies
There's nothing like a carpet of oriental lilies on my light box for photographic fun! Shown here with a few petunias, roses, and jasmine blooms to round out the prevailing…
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July 27, 2019
Mallow and Friends
I like the way this light box image, never before blogged, shows the translucency of the rose petals with the mallow coming through, diffracted but loud and clear!
July 25, 2019
The Story of a Cactus Flower
Phyllis told me she saw a giant cactus flower at about camera height near the small shopping area of Kensington, California about 1/2 mile from our house when she passed…
July 25, 2019
Angel’s Trumpets
Phyllis and Nicky came home with this branch from an Angel's Trumpets shrub (of the Brugmansia genus). They had cropped it from an overhanging specimen in the neighborhood. Since Brugmansia…
July 11, 2019
Fresh from the Garden
This relatively straightforward yet elegant (if I say so myself) light box composition uses flowers directly from our garden.
July 5, 2019
Papaver Triptych
The Nearly Perfect Poppy close-up is the center panel of the Triptych. Click here or on the image to view it larger.
June 15, 2019
Nearly Perfect Poppy
Waking up to a morning of partial sunshine, I saw this new, glowing, orange Poppy blossom in the plantings along our front porch. It was definitely dappled and dawn-drawn. Although…
June 14, 2019
Papaver Rhoeas Medley
It was fun to spend a slow weekend morning with the family at home. Everyone was engaged, no one was bored or whining or hungry. I photographed flowers from our…
June 10, 2019
Lost in the folds of a rose
It's easy for me to get lost in the folds of a rose. Each petal is a curve and a valley, and a landscape of pleasure. Why go anywhere else…
June 4, 2019
Baby’s Breath
I brought home some flowers, and arranged them into bouquets. A small sprig of Baby's Breath (Gyposphila) broke off, and I put it in a little glass jar. The stem…
June 3, 2019
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…
May 23, 2019
Giverny Afternoon
I visited Monet's wonderful garden at Giverny with my small group of photographers. In the late afternoon, we had the garden mostly to ourselves and were able to photograph in…
May 1, 2019
Tulip X-Rays and Fusion X-Rays
These tulips were x-rayed to provide the internal structure of the flowers (see image below). They were then photographed in alignment on a light box for translucency, and to provide…
May 1, 2019
X-Ray Floral Medley
Working with Dr Julian Kopke, I laid out this x-ray composition on a sheet of plexiglass above the sensor. The results you see are actually two x-rays combined, because there…
April 25, 2019
Sunflower Mandala
The Peruvian lily (botanically alstroemeria), or "Lily of the Incas," was once limited to two small ranges in South America, one blooming in the winter (Chile), and one in the…
April 17, 2019
What are these tulip photos about?
An important question when looking at a photo is, What is this photo about? In the case of an image of a single flower blossom, likely candidates depend where the image is…
April 6, 2019
Pale Garden
From our garden I cut clematis, clivia, and iris. The tulips were store-bought. I assembled a composition to echo Flowers of Spring's Desire and Poppies and Mallows, but using a…
April 2, 2019
Can you see color in black & white?
A client recently asked me to submit a series of monochromatic images of flowers. This happened after the client saw the black and white image of a begonia, shown below.…
February 1, 2019